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Top-15 Run for Kimball at the Indianapolis 500
Press Release
Kimball started the 500-mile race from the 28th position and would maintain a steady pace throughout the race. On lap 155, the 26-year old started to feel a vibration in the car and would pit for tires, fuel and left front wing adjustment. The No. 83 Levemir and NovoLog FlexPen Honda was running in the top-10 with less than 30 laps to go and relied on fuel strategy to help gain positions in the final laps. Kimball took the checkered flag for his first Indianapolis 500 in 13th-place.
With the finish, Kimball remains third in the IZOD IndyCar Series Rookie of the Year point standings and moves up three spots to 19th overall.
Up next for Novo Nordisk Chip Ganassi Racing is the Firestone Twin 275s at Texas Motor Speedway on Saturday, June 11, 2011 (8:00 p.m. ET, VERSUS).
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Charlie Kimball: “It was a very successful effort at my first Indianapolis 500 Mile Race. Top-15 is what we were shooting for. That last stint, we went on an alternate fuel strategy, trying to make a gain. I went a lap down there at the end. The No. 83 Levemir and NovoLog FlexPen car was amazing. I feel like I let it down. All day, we didn’t miss a beat in the pits. The whole NovoNordisk Chip Ganassi Racing team. When I was wrong on the marks, they’d get it right. When I was short, they’d get it right. They covered a lot for me. I have to appreciate them for that. It was a big effort all day. We brought home a 13th.”
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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