2010 Indianapolis 500

The 94th Indianapolis 500 was held on Sunday, May 30, 2010, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. It was the 15th Indy 500 sanctioned by the Indy Racing League, and was the premier event of the 2010 IZOD IndyCar Series season. The race was won by Dario Franchitti, ahead of Dan Wheldon and Marco Andretti. Tony Kanaan, who had started in the final position, ran as high as second during the race before finishing eleventh.

The race was the second of the three-year long Centennial era, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the 100th anniversary of the first Indianapolis 500. It was the 53rd time the race had been held on a May 30. This year marked the first race with four female drivers (repeated in 2011), and Simona de Silvestro was awarded Rookie of the Year.

Race results

94th Indianapolis 500 – Race Results
Rank	Car No.	Driver	Team	Laps/Retired	Laps Led	Points
1	10	Dario Franchitti (W)	Chip Ganassi Racing	200	155	52
2	4	Dan Wheldon (W)	Panther Racing	200	0	40
3	26	Marco Andretti	Andretti Autosport	200	1	35
4	19	Alex Lloyd	Dale Coyne Racing	200	0	32
5	9	Scott Dixon (W)	Chip Ganassi Racing	200	0	30
6	7	Danica Patrick	Andretti Autosport	200	0	28
7	22	Justin Wilson	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	200	11	26
8	12	Will Power	Team Penske	200	5	24
9	3	Hélio Castroneves (W)	Team Penske	200	3	22
10	77	Alex Tagliani	FAZZT Race Team	200	0	20
11	11	Tony Kanaan	Andretti Autosport	200	0	19
12	30	Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Racing	200	0	18
13	34	Mario Romancini (R)	Conquest Racing	200	0	17
14	78	Simona de Silvestro (R)	HVM Racing	200	0	16
15	23	Tomas Scheckter	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	199	5	15
16	99	Townsend Bell	Sam Schmidt Motorsports	199	0	14
17	20	Ed Carpenter	Panther Racing	199	0	13
18	37	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	198 (Contact)	0	12
19	24	Mike Conway	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	198 (Contact)	15	12
20	5	Takuma Sato (R)	KV Racing Technology	198	0	12
21	25	Ana Beatriz (R)	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	196 (Contact)	0	12
22	36	Bertrand Baguette (R)	Conquest Racing	183	0	12
23	29	COL Sebastian Saavedra (R)	Bryan Herta Autosport	159 (Contact)	0	12
24	6	Ryan Briscoe	Team Penske	147 (Contact)	5	12
25	8	VEN E. J. Viso	KV Racing Technology	139 (Contact)	0	10
26	67	Sarah Fisher	Sarah Fisher Racing	125 (Contact)	0	10
27	14	Vitor Meira	A. J. Foyt Enterprises	105 (Contact)	0	10
28	06	Hideki Mutoh	Newman/Haas Racing	76 (Handling)	0	10
29	2	Raphael Matos	De Ferran Dragon Racing	72 (Contact)	0	10
30	43	John Andretti	Andretti Autosport	62 (Contact)	0	10
31	32	Mario Moraes	KV Racing Technology	17 (Contact)	0	10
32	33	Bruno Junqueira	FAZZT Race Team	7 (Contact)	0	10
33	21	Davey Hamilton	De Ferran Dragon Racing	0 (Contact)	0	10
Race average speed: 161.623 mph (260.107 km/h)
Lead changes: 13 between 8 drivers
Cautions: 9 for 44 laps
OFFICIAL REPORT

Race Leaders

Eight drivers led the race, with a total of thirteen lead changes.

Laps Leader 1–30 Dario Franchitti 31–35 Will Power 36 Dario Franchitti 37–38 Ryan Briscoe 39–108 Dario Franchitti 109–113 Tomas Scheckter 114–142 Dario Franchitti 143 Marco Andretti 144–146 Ryan Briscoe 147–162 Dario Franchitti 163–177 Mike Conway 178–188 Justin Wilson 189–191 Hélio Castroneves 192–200 Dario Franchitti

Driver Laps led Dario Franchitti 155 Mike Conway 15 Justin Wilson 11 Tomas Scheckter 5 Ryan Briscoe 5 Will Power 5 Hélio Castroneves 3 Marco Andretti 1

See also

• List of Indianapolis 500 winners
• Indianapolis 500 by year
• Indy Racing League
• IndyCar Series

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