Inside the box score: Honda Indy Toronto
JUN 15, 2015
Numbers to note from the Honda Indy Toronto – the 10th round of the Verizon Indy Car Series season:
4 -- One of the four Team Penske drivers has led a lap in each of the 10 races. The last time a Team Penske driver did not lead a lap was August 2014 at Mid-Ohio.
5 -- Rodolfo Gonzalez led his first Verizon IndyCar Series laps.
5.12 – Average running position of winner Josef Newgarden for the 85 laps of racing.
6 – Drivers who led at least one lap, the most to lead at Toronto since 2007.
7 – Lead changes during the race -- one short of the event record set in 2007 and matched in Race 1 of 2013.
8 -- Helio Castroneves and Will Power lead the field by leading a lap in seven of the 10 races.
10 – Top-10 finishes at Toronto by Sebastien Bourdais, who finished fifth. Bourdais has eight top-five finishes in 12 starts at Exhibition Place … Positions improved by Newgarden (11th to first), most of any driver in the race.
11 – On-track passes by rookies Gabby Chaves and Conor Daly.
16 -- Different podium finishers this season, the newest being Luca Filippi with a runner-up finish.
17 -- Total positions gained in Daly's four road/street course races.
41 – Indy car poles for Will Power, who broke a tie with Rick Mears for fifth all time and extended his streak of front-row starts to seven races.
243 – Consecutive starts by Tony Kanaan, extending his all-time record.
1,057 -- Marco Andretti is the only driver to complete every lap this season.