Race details | |
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1st round of the 2019 IndyCar season | |
Date | March 10, 2019 |
Official name | Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg |
Location | Streets of St. Petersburg |
Course | Temporary street circuit 1.800 mi / 2.897 km |
Distance | 110 laps 198.000 mi / 318.670 km |
Pole position | |
Driver | Will Power (Team Penske) |
Time | 1:00.4594 |
Fastest lap | |
Driver | Josef Newgarden (Team Penske) |
Time | 1:01.7350 (on lap 52 of 110) |
Podium | |
First | Josef Newgarden (Team Penske) |
Second | Scott Dixon (Chip Ganassi Racing) |
Third | Will Power (Team Penske) |
The 2019 Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg was the 1st round of the 2019 IndyCar season. The race was held on March 10, 2019, in St. Petersburg, Florida. Will Power qualified on pole position, while Josef Newgarden took victory in the 110-lap race.
Key | Meaning |
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R | Rookie |
W | Past winner |
Pos | No. | Name | Grp. | Round 1 | Round 2 | Firestone Fast 6 | ||||
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1 | 12 | Will Power W | 2 | 1:00.6828 | 1:00.3011 | 1:00.4594 | ||||
2 | 2 | Josef Newgarden | 1 | 1:04.2860 | 1:00.2003 | 1:00.5570 | ||||
3 | 10 | Felix Rosenqvist R | 1 | 1:03.8696 | 1:00.8100 | 1:00.6884 | ||||
4 | 9 | Scott Dixon | 2 | 1:00.8373 | 1:00.5370 | 1:00.8544 | ||||
5 | 28 | Ryan Hunter-Reay | 2 | 1:00.1548 | 1:00.4135 | 1:01.0784 | ||||
6 | 27 | Alexander Rossi | 1 | 1:03.2100 | 1:00.7086 | 1:01.7739 | ||||
7 | 60 | Jack Harvey | 2 | 1:00.7970 | 1:00.9531 | |||||
8 | 23 | Charlie Kimball | 1 | 1:02.9944 | 1:01.0146 | |||||
9 | 5 | James Hinchcliffe W | 1 | 1:03.1731 | 1:01.0185 | |||||
10 | 15 | Graham Rahal W | 2 | 1:00.5933 | 1:01.0944 | |||||
11 | 88 | Colton Herta R | 2 | 1:00.4618 | 1:01.4182 | |||||
12 | 81 | Ben Hanley R | 1 | 1:04.1477 | 1:02.3703 | |||||
13 | 22 | Simon Pagenaud | 1 | 1:04.6298 | ||||||
14 | 26 | Zach Veach | 2 | 1:00.9061 | ||||||
15 | 20 | Ed Jones | 1 | 1:06.1422 | ||||||
16 | 21 | Spencer Pigot | 2 | 1:00.9495 | ||||||
17 | 98 | Marco Andretti | 1 | No time | ||||||
18 | 7 | Marcus Ericsson R | 2 | 1:01.1345 | ||||||
19 | 18 | Sébastien Bourdais W | 1 | No time | ||||||
20 | 30 | Takuma Sato | 2 | 1:01.1511 | ||||||
21 | 14 | Tony Kanaan | 1 | No time | ||||||
22 | 4 | Matheus Leist | 2 | 1:01.1579 | ||||||
23 | 19 | Santino Ferrucci R | 1 | No time | ||||||
24 | 59 | Max Chilton | 2 | 1:01.3785 | ||||||
OFFICIAL BOX SCORE Archived 2019-05-17 at the Wayback Machine |
Notes: 1 Points include 1 point for leading at least 1 lap during a race, an additional 2 points for leading the most race laps, and 1 point for Pole Position.
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