2006 Toyota Indy 300

The 2006 Toyota Indy 300 was the first round of the 2006 IndyCar Series season, held on March 26, 2006 on the Homestead-Miami Speedway and covered by ABC. The race was marred by a violent crash in the final practice session. Paul Dana was killed in the crash and teammates Danica Patrick and Buddy Rice withdrew from the race to honor his memory. He was the third driver to lose his life in the IRL. Ed Carpenter who crashed into Dana's car was also injured, but recovered.

Qualifying results

Pos	Name	Team	Lap 1	Lap 2	Qual Time
1	Sam Hornish Jr.	Marlboro Team Penske	24.4625	24.4722	24.4625
2	Hélio Castroneves	Marlboro Team Penske	24.5131	24.5175	24.5131
3	Danica Patrick	Rahal Letterman Racing Team	24.7384	24.6589	24.6589
4	Scott Dixon	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	24.7384	24.6589	24.6589
5	Tony Kanaan	Andretti Green Racing	24.7578	24.7296	24.7296
6	Buddy Rice	Rahal Letterman Racing Team	24.7720	24.7600	24.7600
7	Dario Franchitti	Andretti Green Racing	24.7664	24.7731	24.7664
8	Dan Wheldon	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	24.8417	24.7725	24.7725
9	Paul Dana	Rahal Letterman Racing Team	24.8160	24.7967	24.7967
10	Felipe Giaffone	A. J. Foyt Enterprises	24.8117	24.8574	24.8117
11	Bryan Herta	Andretti Green Racing	24.9775	24.8192	24.8192
12	Tomas Scheckter	Vision Racing	24.8567	24.8337	24.8337
13	Ed Carpenter	Vision Racing	24.8692	24.8399	24.8399
14	Kosuke Matsuura	Super Aguri Fernandez Racing	24.8467	24.8432	24.8432
15	Scott Sharp	Super Aguri Fernandez Racing	24.9285	24.8896	24.8896
16	Eddie Cheever Jr.	Cheever Racing	25.0998	24.9690	24.9690
17	Marco Andretti	Andretti Green Racing	24.9813	25.0022	24.9813
18	Buddy Lazier	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	24.9878	No time	24.9878
19	Vitor Meira	Panther Racing	25.0320	24.9892	24.9892
20	P. J. Chesson	Hemelgarn Racing	25.2025	25.2439	25.2439