Tony Kanaan flips upside down out of the second turn after making contact with Tomas Sheckter during the running of Sunday's IndyCar race at New Hampshire. Photo by LAT Photo USA/Courtesy IndyCar
Ryan Hunter-Reay was the race leader when moisture on the racing surface at New Hampshire Motor Speedway brought out the yellow flag. About 20 minutes later and after much confusion, he was in Victory Circle for a muted celebration for winning the MoveThatBlock.com Indy 225.
The finish order was set based on the lap 215 running order under caution — before a lap 217 restart that went awry because of a slick racing surface.
“It will be an aborted restart. It was a mistake on Race Control’s part and the only right thing to do and the fair thing to do is to go to the running order before the restart,” said INDYCAR president of competition and operations Brian Barnhart, the chief steward of the IZOD IndyCar Series.
As cars exited turn 4 of the 1.025-mile oval for the double-file restart, Danica Patrick’s car spun to start a chain reaction of light contact that involved four other cars on the lead lap.
Hunter-Reay, who started fifth in the No. 28 Team DHL/Circle K/Sun Drop car for Andretti Autosport and inherited the lead on Lap 190 when Takuma Sato pitted for fuel, earned his first IZOD IndyCar Series oval victory. He’s had podium finishes in three of the past four races.
“I knew we had a good car this weekend and in practice we’ve been making the car better and better,” Hunter-Reay said in victory lane. “They have done such a good job. We have great chemistry on this team and it’s a great result.”
“It was a strange day,” he added. “But sometimes racing is strange.”
Oriol Servia finished a season-high second in the No. 2 Telemundo Newman/Haas Racing car and Scott Dixon earned his second consecutive podium finish (he won at Mid-Ohio a week earlier) in the No. 9 Target Chip Ganassi Racing car. Rookie James Hinchcliffe tied his season high in fourth place in the No. 06 Sprott Newman/Haas Racing car.
Will Power, who started 13th in the No. 12 Verizon Team Penske car, finished fifth and Patrick was sixth. Power’s result sliced 15 points from Dario Franchitti’s series championship points lead. That gap is now 47 heading to Infineon Raceway for the Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma on Aug. 27.
Franchitti appeared to be on the way to a big day until Lap 118. That’s when the race leader was involved in a tire-to-tire collision with Sato’s No. 5 KV Racing Technology-Lotus car on a restart that spun the No. 10 Target Chip Ganassi Racing car into the inside wall near the start/finish line.
Franchitti, who earned the three bonus points for the pole and leading the most race laps, had been running at the finish in 43 consecutive races.
It was all part of a wild day that included a scary moment for Tony Kanaan after making contact with Tomas Scheckter and the lap car of Marco Andretti on the backstretch.
Kanaan and Scheckter spun, making contact with the tire barrier on the inside of the backstretch. Kanaan’s car overturned after making contact with the tire barrier. No one was injured, but the day was over for all three drivers.
Izod IndyCar Series
New Hampshire Motor Speedway – Loudon, NH
MoveThatBlock.com 225 – Aug. 14, 2011
| Fin | Start | No. | Driver | Points | Car | Laps Completed | Status | |
| 1 | 5 | 28 | Ryan Hunter-Reay | 50 | Dallara Honda | 215 | Running | |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | Oriol Servia | 40 | Dallara Honda | 215 | Running | |
| 3 | 7 | 9 | Scott Dixon | 35 | Dallara Honda | 215 | Running | |
| 4 | 4 | 06 | James Hinchcliffe | 32 | Dallara Honda | 215 | Running | |
| 5 | 13 | 12 | Will Power | 30 | Dallara Honda | 215 | Running | |
| 6 | 15 | 7 | Danica Patrick | 28 | Dallara Honda | 215 | Running | |
| 7 | 8 | 5 | Takuma Sato | 26 | Dallara Honda | 215 | Running | |
| 8 | 6 | 6 | Ryan Briscoe | 24 | Dallara Honda | 214 | Running | |
| 9 | 10 | 83 | Charlie Kimball | 22 | Dallara Honda | 213 | Running | |
| 10 | 19 | 14 | Vitor Meira | 20 | Dallara Honda | 212 | Running | |
| 11 | 25 | 67 | Ed Carpenter | 19 | Dallara Honda | 212 | Running | |
| 12 | 17 | 59 | E.J. Viso | 18 | Dallara Honda | 212 | Running | |
| 13 | 14 | 19 | Alex Lloyd | 17 | Dallara Honda | 211 | Running | |
| 14 | 21 | 24 | Ana Beatriz | 16 | Dallara Honda | 210 | Running | |
| 15 | 24 | 34 | Sebastian Saavedra | 15 | Dallara Honda | 210 | Running | |
| 16 | 26 | 78 | Simona de Silvestro | 14 | Dallara Honda | 209 | Running | |
| 17 | 9 | 3 | Helio Castroneves | 13 | Dallara Honda | 202 | Running | |
| 18 | 20 | 18 | James Jakes | 12 | Dallara Honda | 176 | Mechanical | |
| 19 | 16 | 77 | Alex Tagliani | 12 | Dallara Honda | 137 | Mechanical | |
| 20 | 1 | 10 | Dario Franchitti | 12 | Dallara Honda | 118 | Contact | |
| 21 | 11 | 4 | J.R. Hildebrand | 12 | Dallara Honda | 118 | Contact | |
| 22 | 3 | 82 | Tony Kanaan | 12 | Dallara Honda | 109 | Contact | |
| 23 | 18 | 22 | Tomas Scheckter | 12 | Dallara Honda | 109 | Contact | |
| 24 | 22 | 26 | Marco Andretti | 12 | Dallara Honda | 109 | Contact | |
| 25 | 12 | 27 | Mike Conway | 10 | Dallara Honda | 0 | Contact | |
| 26 | 23 | 38 | Graham Rahal | 10 | Dallara Honda | 0 | Contact | |
| 27 | 27 | 30 | Pippa Mann | 5 | Dallara Honda | 0 | Did Not Start |
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