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2005 Finish
Finish	Driver	Start	Finish	Driver	Start
1	Dario Franchitti	1	6	Dan Wheldon	7
2	Tony Kanaan	10	7	Tomas Scheckter	2
3	Vitor Meira	13	8	Tomas Enge	11
4	Scott Sharp	9	9	Helio Castroneves	6
5	Sam Hornish Jr	3	10	Scott Dixon	15

2005 MAVTV 500 IndyCar World Championships Facts and Figures
AVERAGE SPEED: 168.567 m.p.h.
TIME OF RACE: 2 hours, 22 minutes, 22.6114 seconds
MARGIN OF VICTORY: 0.1117 second
CAUTION FLAGS: 4 for 29 laps
LEAD CHANGES: 17 among 7 drivers
POLE WINNER: Dario Franchitti (219.398 m.p.h.)
FASTEST LAP: Dan Wheldon, 219.485 m.p.h., Lap 46

Past MAVTV 500 IndyCar World Champion Winners (Starting Position) Car -- Speed

2011 -- Not Held

2010 -- Not Held

2009 -- Not Held

2008 -- Not Held

2007 -- Not Held

2006 -- Not Held

2005 -- Dario Franchitti (1st) -- Dallara-Honda -- 168.567 m.p.h.

2004 -- Adrian Fernandez (5th) -- Panoz G Force-Honda -- 178.826 m.p.h.

2003 -- Sam Hornish Jr (10th) -- Dallara-Chevrolet -- 207.151 m.p.h. (record)

2002 -- Sam Hornish Jr (4th) -- Dallara-Chevrolet -- 179.345 m.p.h.

NOTE: Formerly called Yamaha Indy 400 (2002) and Toyota Indy 400 (2003-05).

Past MAVTV 500 IndyCar World Championships Pole Winners (Finish)

2011 -- Not Held

2010 -- Not Held

2009 -- Not Held

2008 -- Not Held

2007 -- Not Held

2006 -- Not Held

2005 -- Dario Franchitti -- 1st

2004 -- Helio Castroneves -- 7th

2003 -- Helio Castroneves -- 6th

2002 -- Eddie Cheever -- 20th

Last Race Results
RACE: Grand Prix of Baltimore (September 2nd)
SITE: Streets of Baltimore -- Baltimore, Maryland
MILES: 153
LAPS: 75
WINNER: Ryan Hunter-Reay
RUNNER-UP: Ryan Briscoe
THIRD: Simon Pagenaud
FOURTH: Scott Dixon
FIFTH: Rubens Barrichello
POLE WINNER: Will Power (Finished 6th)
TIME OF RACE: 2 hours, 9 minutes, 2.9522 seconds
MARGIN OF VICTORY: 1.4391 seconds
AVERAGE SPEED: 71.136 m.p.h.
CAUTION FLAGS: 9 for 24 laps
LEAD CHANGES: 12 among 7 drivers
LAP LEADERS: Will Power 1-18; Ryan Hunter-Reay 19-20; James Hinchcliffe 21;
	Hunter-Reay 22; Hinchcliffe 23; Takuma Sato 24-35; Hunter-Reay
	36; Simon Pagenaud 37-50; Hunter-Reay 51-52; Power 53-56; Alex
	Tagliani 57; Ryan Briscoe 58-68; Hunter-Reay 69-75.

MAVTV 500 IndyCar World Championships Entry List
Car	Driver, Hometown	Car/Name
2	Ryan Briscoe (Sydney, Australia)	IZOD/Team Penske
3	Helio Castroneves (Brazil)	Auto Club/Team Penske
4	J.R. Hildebrand (Sausalito, CA)	U.S. National Guard/Panther Racing
5	E.J. Viso (Caracas, Venezuela)	Citgo/PDVSA/KV Racing Technology
6	Katherine Legge (Guildford,England)	TrueCar/Dragon Racing
8	Rubens Barrichello (Brazil)	BMC/Embrase/KV Racing Technology
9	Scott Dixon (Auckland, New Zealand)	Target/Chip Ganassi Racing
10	Dario Franchitti (Scotland)	Cottonelle/Chip Ganassi Racing
11	Tony Kanaan (Salvador, Brazil)	GEICO/Mouser Electronics/KVRT
12	Will Power (Toowoomba, Australia)	Verizon/Team Penske
14	Wade Cunningham (Auckland, New Zeal.)	ABC Supply Co./AJ Foyt Enterprises
15	Takuma Sato (Tokyo, Japan)	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
17	Sebastian Saavedra (Colombia)	AFS/Andretti Autosport
18	Justin Wilson (Sheffield, England)	Sonny's Bar B-Q/Dale Coyne Racing
19	Jamie Jakes (Leeds, England)	Boy Scouts America/Dale Coyne Racing
20	Ed Carpenter (Indianapolis, IN)	Fuzzy's Vodka/Ed Carpenter Racing
22	Oriol Servia (Pals, Spain)	Panther/Dreyer & Reinbold Racing
26	Marco Andretti (Nazareth, PA)	RC Cola/Andretti Autosport
27	James Hinchcliffe (Toronto, Canada)	GoDaddy.com/Andretti Autosport
28	Ryan Hunter-Reay (Boca Raton, FL)	DHL/Sun Drop/Andretti Autosport
38	Graham Rahal (New Albany, OH)	Service Central/Chip Ganassi Racing
67	Josef Newgarden (Nashville, TN)	Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing
77	Simon Pagenaud (Poitiers, France)	Schmidt Hamilton HP Motorsports
78	Simona de Silvestro (Switzerland)	Nuclear Energy/Lotus-HVM Racing
83	Charlie Kimball (Camarillo, CA)	NovoLog FlexPen/Chip Ganassi Racing
98	Alex Tagliani (Lachenaie, Canada)	Barracuda/Bryan Herta Autosport

Leading Contenders (Finish the last four races)
Driver	2002	2003	2004	2005
Dario Franchitti	---	---	6th	Won
Tony Kanaan	---	3rd	2nd	2nd
Helio Castroneves	5th	6th	7th	9th
Scott Dixon	---	2nd	8th	10th
Will Power	---	---	---	---
Marco Andretti	--	--	--	--
Ryan Briscoe	---	---	---	---
Ryan Hunter-Reay	---	---	---	---
James Hinchcliffe	---	---	---	---

Mover of the Week

E.J. Viso - Started 22nd on the grid and finished 9th

Sports Network Selections

Pick to Win - Helio Castroneves

Darkhorse - Rubens Barrichello

Last Week's Pick to Win (Will Power) - Finished 6th

Last Week's Darkhorse (Mike Conway) - Finished 16th

NOTES:

The IZOD IndyCar Series returns to Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif. this week for the final race of the season, the MAVTV 500 IndyCar World Championships.

Four drivers are still mathematically in the hunt to capture the series title. For the seventh consecutive season, the final race will decide the IndyCar Championship.

Will Power holds down the top spot, 17 points ahead of Ryan Hunter-Reay, while Helio Castroneves and Scott Dixon are 52 and 53 points back respectively. Although Power has led heading into the final race of the season the past two years, he has yet to capture the championship.

This is the 11th Indy race at Auto Club Speedway and the first since 2005, when Dario Franchitti captured the checkered flag. The CART and Champ Car held six Indy car races at Auto Club Speedway from 1997-2002. Mauricio Gugelmin won the pole for the first Indy car race at Auto Club Speedway in 1997. Mark Blundell won the race. Franchitti (2005) is the only driver to win at Auto Club Speedway from the pole position.

Tony Kanaan will attempt to make his 196th consecutive Indy car start, dating to Portland in 2001. Jimmy Vasser holds the all-time record of 211.

The 2013 IndyCar season is set to begin March 24 in Florida for the Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. Helio Castroneves is the defending race winner.

09/14 16:19:18 ET

As of September 14, 2012, at 04:19 PM ET

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