2011 Kentucky Indy 300

March 2026 March 2026 February 2025 USA Kentucky Kentucky Speedway.svg October 2 2011 Kentucky Indy 300 17th IndyCar Series Kentucky Speedway, Sparta, Kentucky Permanent racing facility 1.480 2.382 200 296 476.366 76 F, overcast Will Power Verizon Team Penske 24.2910 AUS Ed Carpenter Dollar General/Sarah Fisher Racing 24.3847 73 USA Ed Carpenter Dollar General/Sarah Fisher Racing USA Dario Franchitti Downy/Chip Ganassi SCO Scott Dixon Target Chip Ganassi Racing NZL The 2011 Kentucky Indy 300 was the twelfth running of the Kentucky Indy 300 and the seventeenth round of the 2011 IndyCar Series season. It took place on Sunday, October 2, 2011. The race contested over 200 laps at the 1.480 mi km on Kentucky Speedway in Sparta, Kentucky. This would ultimately be the last classified race of Dan Wheldon's career. In the following race, Wheldon would be involved in a 15-car accident at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, which would claim his life. The race was abandoned, and therefore was not classified as an official race. Buddy Rice and Vítor Meira were also in this and the next race, after which they made no more IndyCar starts, making this the final classified race of their careers as well. This was also the final classified race for Newman/Haas Racing. Grid Dan Wheldon, whose only race to date in the 2011 IndyCar series had been his win at the Indianapolis 500, replaced Alex Tagliani in the Sam Schmidt Motorsports #77 car.https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23213009/courierpost/ This Week's Racing 2011-09-30 Courier-Post 2018-08-28 4D en Newspapers.com RowInsideOutside112AUS Will Power38USA Graham Rahal206CAN James Hinchcliffe (R)67USA Ed Carpenter34USA J. R. Hildebrand (R)26USA Marco Andretti49NZL Scott Dixon28USA Ryan Hunter-Reay52ESP Oriol Servià83USA Charlie Kimball (R)610SCO Dario Franchitti27GBR Mike Conway778SUI Simona de Silvestro7USA Danica Patrick817NZL Wade Cunningham (R)3BRA Hélio Castroneves944USA Buddy Rice6AUS Ryan Briscoe1082BRA Tony Kanaan24BRA Ana Beatriz (R)1114BRA Vítor Meira5JPN Takuma Sato1259VEN E. J. Viso19ENG Alex Lloyd1334GBR Dillon Battistini (R)22USA Townsend Bell1418GBR James Jakes (R)77GBR Dan Wheldon †1530GBR Pippa Mann † Did not qualify. Results Pos2011 IZOD IndyCar Series - Kentucky Indy 300 [Full race] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VE2xYH2_Uo en 2022-05-30NameLapsStart (Moves)1Ed Carpenter 672004 (+3)2Dario Franchitti 1020011 (+9)3Scott Dixon 92007 (+4)4(R) James Hinchcliffe 06 2003 (-1)5Ryan Hunter-Reay 282008 (+3)6Oriol Servia 22009 (-3)7(R) Wade Cunningham 1720015 (+8)8Ryan Briscoe 620018 (+10)9Buddy Rice 4420017 (+8)10Danica Patrick 720014 (+4)11Townsend Bell 2220026 (+15)12Graham Rahal 382002 (-10)13(R) Charlie Kimball 8320010 (-3)14Dan Wheldon 7720028 (+13)15Takuma Sato 520022 (+7)16Vítor Meira 1420021 (+5)17Tony Kanaan 8220019 (+2)18Mike Conway 2720013 (-5)19Will Power 122001 (-18)20(R) JR Hildebrand 41995 (-15)21(R) James Jakes 1819827 (+6)22Pippa Mann 3019729 (+7)23EJ Viso 5919223 (0)24(R) Ana Beatriz 24Ret20 (-4)25Simona De Silvestro 78Ret13 (-18)26Alex Lloyd 19Ret24 (-2)27Marco Andretti 26Ret6 (-21)28(R) Dillon Battistini 34Ret25 (-3)29Hélio Castroneves 3Ret16 (-13) Italics indicates the pole sitter Bold indicates the podium References Kentucky Indy 300 2011 2011 Indy Japan: The Final 2011 IZOD IndyCar World Championship 2010 Kentucky Indy 300 N/A Kentucky Indy 300 Kentucky Indy 300 Kentucky Indy 300 Category:Kentucky Indy 300