2015 ABC Supply 500
| Race details | |
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| 15th round of the 2015 IndyCar Series season | |
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| Date | August 23, 2015 |
| Official name | ABC Supply 500 |
| Location | Pocono Raceway, Long Pond, Pennsylvania |
| Course | Permanent racing facility 2.500 mi / 4.023 km |
| Distance | 200 laps 500.000 mi / 804.67 km |
| Weather | Temperatures reaching up to 81 °F (27 °C); wind speeds approaching speeds of 8.06 miles per hour (12.97 km/h) |
| Pole position | |
| Driver | Hélio Castroneves (Team Penske) |
| Time | 1:21.6217 (2-lap) |
| Fastest lap | |
| Driver | Juan Pablo Montoya (Team Penske) |
| Time | 40.9927 (on lap 125 of 200) |
| Podium | |
| First | Ryan Hunter-Reay (Andretti Autosport) |
| Second | Josef Newgarden (CFH Racing) |
| Third | Juan Pablo Montoya (Team Penske) |
The 2015 ABC Supply 500 was an IndyCar Series event that was contested at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania, USA. The race served as the penultimate race of the 2015 IndyCar Series season, and was the third and final leg of the season's Fuzzy's Ultra Premium Vodka IndyCar Triple Crown.
The race was won by Ryan Hunter-Reay driving the No. 28 DHL Dallara-Honda for Andretti Autosport. It was marred, however, by an incident involving Sage Karam and Justin Wilson twenty laps from the finish that resulted in Wilson suffering a serious head injury – having been hit by the nose cone from Karam's car – which proved to be fatal.
The race was run on Sunday, August 23, 2015. The scheduled distance was 500 miles (800 kilometres), which required 200 laps around the triangular oval 2.5 miles (4.0 kilometres) in length.
The pole position was won by Hélio Castroneves of Team Penske, driving the No. 3 car. Penske Chevrolets qualified in the first three positions, with Castroneves' teammate Simon Pagenaud starting alongside him in the No. 22 and defending series champion Will Power behind him in position three.
Karam, driving a Chevrolet for Chip Ganassi Racing, qualified sixth, with Hunter-Reay seventh and Wilson eighth. Overall, twenty-four drivers qualified for the race.
Castroneves would eventually crash out of the event, finishing sixteenth. Wilson was scored in fifteenth, with Karam one position in front of him. The highest finishing of the Penske cars was the No. 2 of series points leader Juan Pablo Montoya, as he finished in third to receive a spot on the podium. Josef Newgarden, driving the No. 67 Chevrolet for CFH Racing, took the other position on the podium by way of his second-place finish and finished with a race-high 47 laps led. He was followed by Gabby Chaves, who led 31 laps in the No. 98 Honda for Bryan Herta Autosport, and Pagenaud, who led 30 laps. Hunter-Reay, Castroneves, and Tony Kanaan each led more than 20 laps.
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