Monday
Kimball 16th in Sao Paulo
Press Release
Kimball completed his best qualifying effort in the No. 83 Novo Nordisk Honda and started in 18th position in Sunday’s race. The green flag flew under wet track conditions and the IZOD IndyCar Series rookie jumped to eighth by evading trouble on the slippery streets of Sao Paulo.
On lap 14, persistent rain and standing water on the 2.536-mile, 11-turn street course would force INDYCAR officials to postpone the race until Monday, May 2.
Kimball restarted the rain-delayed race in seventh but would quickly be put in a predicament when all teams came in for rain tires on lap 14 and the Novo Nordisk car was hit coming out of the pit box. The incident would cause the team to make another pit stop for repairs. Kimball returned to the track and focused on gaining as many positions as possible before ending the day one lap down in 16th postion.
With the finish, Kimball remains third in the IZOD IndyCar Series Rookie of the Year point standings and 21st overall.
Up next for Novo Nordisk Chip Ganassi Racing is the IZOD IndyCar Series Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, May 29, 2011 (12:00 p.m. ET, ABC).
NNCGR Quoteboard
Charlie Kimball: “Today was a tough day for Novo Nordisk Chip Ganassi Racing. We got run into on pit lane and that knocked the steering off for the rest of the race. I just held on and brought the No. 83 Novo Nordisk Honda home in one piece. I am excited to take everything we have learned from the first four races and head to Indianapolis for the 500-mile race.”
Results (with starting pos.) from Brazil
1. (1) Will Power, No. 12 Honda Dallara
2. (5) Graham Rahal, No. 38 Honda Dallara
3. (4) Ryan Briscoe, No. 6 Honda Dallara
16. (18) Charlie Kimball, No. 83 Novo Nordisk Honda Dallara
About Chip Ganassi Racing Teams
Chip Ganassi created his own one-car IndyCar team in 1990 and established a partnership with sponsor, Target. Today, Chip Ganassi Racing Teams includes two entries in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, four in the IZOD IndyCar Series and one Daytona Prototype in the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Cars Series. Overall his teams have 12 championships and 138 victories, including three Indianapolis 500s, a Daytona 500, a Brickyard 400 and four Rolex 24 At Daytonas. Ganassi boasts state-of-the-art race shop facilities in Indianapolis and Brownsburg, Ind. and Concord, N.C., with a corporate office in Pittsburgh, Penn.
– Chip Ganassi Racing, Press Release
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