Northern Light IRL: Pennzoil Copper World Indy 200 Race Results

Posted By Terry Callahan
Motorsports Editor, The Auto Channel

March 19, 2001

PHOENIX - Results Sunday from the Pennzoil Copper World Indy 200 Indy Racing Northern Light Series event at Phoenix International Raceway, with finishing position, starting position (in parenthesis), driver, chassis-engine, laps completed, reason out (if any) and money won:

1. (2) Sam Hornish Jr., Dallara-Oldsmobile, 200, $124,300
2. (13) Eliseo Salazar, Dallara-Oldsmobile, 200, $89,650
3. (6) Buddy Lazier, Dallara-Oldsmobile, 200, $67,650
4. (10) Scott Sharp, Dallara-Oldsmobile, 200, $55,600
5. (7) Billy Boat, Dallara-Oldsmobile, 200, $51,150
6. (9) Felipe Giaffone, G Force-Oldsmobile, 199, $45,950
7. (3) Jeff Ward, G Force-Oldsmobile, 199, $44,350
8. (16) Robby McGehee, Dallara-Oldsmobile, 198, $43,350
9. (11) Buzz Calkins, Dallara-Oldsmobile, 197, $43,100
10. (18) Airton Daré , G Force-Oldsmobile, 197, $42,100
11. (8) Robbie Buhl, G Force-Infiniti, 196, $46,000
12. (20) Davey Hamilton, Dallara-Oldsmobile, 192, $39,900
13. (24) Shigeaki Hattori, G Force-Oldsmobile, 192, $16,900
14. (26) Brandon Erwin, G Force-Oldsmobile, 185, $15,800
15. (19) Tyce Carlson, Dallara-Oldsmobile, 162, mechanical, $36,800
16. (14) Stan Wattles, Dallara-Oldsmobile, 157, accident, $35,800
17. (21) Sarah Fisher, Dallara-Oldsmobile, 145, engine, $12,600
18. (17) Helio Castroneves, Dallara-Oldsmobile, 142, engine, $34,600
19. (12) Eddie Cheever Jr., Dallara-Infiniti, 133, throttle, $33,600
20. (25) Casey Mears, G Force-Oldsmobile, 133, electrical, $10,600
21. (4) Stephan Gregoire, Dallara-Oldsmobile, 131, accident, $34,600
22. (1) Greg Ray, Dallara-Oldsmobile, 121, engine, $55,100
23. (23) Al Unser Jr., G Force-Oldsmobile, 104, engine, $10,600
24. (5) Gil de Ferran, Dallara-Oldsmobile, 76, accident, $32,600
25. (15) Mark Dismore, Dallara-Oldsmobile, 75, accident, $32,600
26. (22) Jeret Schroeder, Dallara-Oldsmobile, 74, accident, $10,600
27. (27) Didier André, G Force-Oldsmobile, 53, handling, $10,600

Race Statistics

Winner's average speed: 125.072 mph.
Time of race: 1:35:56.7051.
Margin of victory: 1.3786 sec.
Cautions: 5 for 37 laps.
Lead changes: 7 among 6 drivers.

Lap leaders: Hornish 1-67, Ray 68-73, de Ferran 74-76, Castroneves 77-80, Sharp 81, Ray 82-118, Gregoire 119-127, Hornish 128-200.

Point Standings (after 1 of 13 races): Hornish 52, Salazar 40, Lazier 35, Sharp 32, Boat 30, Giaffone 28, Ward 26, McGehee 24, Calkins 22, Daré 20.

Text provided by Paul Kelly

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