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Indy Racing League race number 8 of 15
Saturday, June 29, 2002 at Richmond International Raceway, Richmond, VA
250 laps on a 0.750 mile paved track (187.500 miles)

Time of race: 1:53:30
Average speed: 99.124 mph
Pole speed: 168.705 mph

Cautions: 8 for 94 laps
Margin of victory: 1.832 sec
Attendance: n/a
Lead changes: 6

Glossary 2002 Indy Racing League results / 2002 standings

Pos	St	#	Driver	Sponsor / Owner	C/E/T	Laps	Money	Status	Led	Pts
1	3	4	Sam Hornish, Jr.	Pennzoil (Panther Racing)	D/C/F	250	111550	running	2	50
2	1	6	Gil de Ferran	Marlboro (Roger Penske)	D/C/F	250	112050	running	168	42
3	10	21	Felipe Giaffone	Hollywood Cigarettes (Mo Nunn)	G/C/F	250	71850	running	0	35
4	18	52	Tomas Scheckter	Red Bull (Eddie Cheever, Jr.)	D/I/F	250	58500	running	0	32
5	13	7	Al Unser, Jr.	Corteco / Bryant (Tom Kelley)	D/C/F	225	53400	running	0	30
6	19	14	Airton Dare	Harrah's (A.J. Foyt)	D/C/F	250	47700	running	0	28
7	9	20	Richie Hearn	Motor Auction Group (Sam Schmidt)	D/C/F	250	46400	running	0	26
8	7	9	Jeff Ward	Target (Chip Ganassi)	G/C/F	249	45300	running	0	24
9	16	54	Robby McGehee	Norwalk Furniture / Parsons Motorsports (Greg Beck)	D/C/F	247	30650	running	0	22
10	8	44	Alex Barron	Rayovac (Blair Racing)	D/C/F	246	44200	running	0	20
11	12	2	Mark Dismore	Johns Manville / Menards / Pittsburgh Paints (John Menard)	D/C/F	246	42900	running	0	19
12	14	11	Greg Ray	Harrah's (A.J. Foyt)	D/C/F	228	41800	valve train	41	18
13	20	24	Robbie Buhl	Team Purex / Aventis (Dreyer & Reinbold Racing)	G/I/F	208	40700	running	0	17
14	17	51	Eddie Cheever, Jr.	Red Bull (Eddie Cheever, Jr.)	D/I/F	180	39400	crash	0	16
15	4	34	Laurent Redon	Mi-Jack (Eric Bachelart)	D/I/F	180	38300	crash	39	15
16	15	23	Sarah Fisher	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing (Dreyer & Reinbold Racing)	G/I/F	158	22550	crash	0	14
17	2	3	Helio Castroneves	Marlboro (Roger Penske)	D/C/F	103	36000	running	0	13
18	5	91	Buddy Lazier	Coors Light / Life Fitness / Tae-Bo / Delta (Ron Hemelgarn)	D/C/F	91	38000	fire	0	12
19	21	16	Jon Herb	Star Registry / WeberGrills.com (Jon Herb)	D/C/F	80	20150	crash	0	11
20	22	31	George Mack	310 Racing (310 Racing)	G/C/F	54	33700	crash	0	10
21	6	8	Scott Sharp	Delphi (Tom Kelley)	D/C/F	40	33700	crash	0	9
22	11	98	Billy Boat	Curb Records (Greg Beck / Curb-Agajanian)	D/C/F	29	33700	crash	0	8

C/E/T = Chassis / Engine / Tire codes
Chassis: D - Dallara; G - G Force
Engine: C - Chevrolet; I - Nissan Infiniti
Tires: F - Firestone

Condition	From Lap	To Lap	# Of Laps	Reason
Caution flag breakdown:
	1	7	7
	8	16	9	#3 accident
	17	29	13
	30	37	8	#98 accident
	38	40	3
	41	53	13	#8 accident
	54	54	1
	55	62	8	#31 accident
	63	94	32
	95	115	21	#91 fire in pits
	116	149	34
	150	158	9	#16 accident
	159	161	3
	162	173	12	#23 accident
	174	181	8
	182	195	14	#51,34 accident
	196	250	55
Percent of race run under caution: 37.6% Average green flag run: 17.3 laps

Leader	From Lap	To Lap	# Of Laps
Lap leader breakdown:
Gil de Ferran	1	83	83
Laurent Redon	84	111	28
Gil de Ferran	112	112	1
Greg Ray	113	153	41
Laurent Redon	154	164	11
Gil de Ferran	165	248	84
Sam Hornish, Jr.	249	250	2

Rank	Driver	Points	Diff
Points Standings after this race:
1	Helio Castroneves	280
2	Gil de Ferran	277	-3
3	Sam Hornish, Jr.	256	-24
4	Felipe Giaffone	237	-43
5	Al Unser, Jr.	194	-86
6	Jeff Ward	181	-99
7	Airton Dare	176	-104
8	Alex Barron	169	-111
9	Scott Sharp	156	-124
10	Laurent Redon	145	-135
11	Eddie Cheever, Jr.	137	-143
12	Billy Boat	136	-144
13	Buddy Lazier	133	-147
14	Richie Hearn	126	-154
15	Tomas Scheckter	116	-164
16	George Mack	102	-178
17	Robby McGehee	90	-190
17	Jaques Lazier	90	-190
19	Robbie Buhl	83	-197
20	Shigeaki Hattori	78	-202
21	Eliseo Salazar	77	-203