Ryan Hunter-Reay and his crew celebrate Saturday night after winning the Izod IndyCar Iowa Corn 250 at Iowa Speedway. Photo courtesy IndyCar/LAT USA
Ryan Hunter-Reay’s second consecutive short track victory was reason enough to celebrate. Closing to three points of IZOD IndyCar Series championship front-runner Will Power was a bonus.
Hunter-Reay, who prevailed at the Milwaukee Mile a week earlier following a 90-minute rain delay, won the Iowa Corn Indy 250 at Iowa Speedway under caution. The start was delayed 40 minutes because of a thunderstorm.
Hunter-Reay, driving the No. 28 Team DHL/Sun Drop Citrus Soda car, led Andretti Autosport teammate Marco Andretti by 1.2223 seconds on lap 247 of 250 when the yellow flag flew the next lap for the No. 6 car driven by Katherine Legge making contact with the SAFER Barrier exiting turn 2.
“That was very challenging,” said Hunter-Reay. “We were sliding around a little bit more today. I have to thank Marco (Andretti). They came here and tested. Marco put the set up on the car. When we came here, we tweaked it just a little. From there, we basically raced with what he tested with. We got another win for Chevy, DHL and Sun Drop. Marco and I raced really hard out there, really clean. It’s great to have a teammate like that and we’re just so happy to be in victory lane twice in a row.”
Andretti, the 2011 race winner, earned his first podium finish of the season.
“It was a lot of fun, the car came alive in the second stint,” said Andretti. “I think we in hindsight could have taken another turn of the front wing and been really hard to beat at the end, but we kept the car how it is and I kind of ran out of tools at the end and had a lot of understeer. Great team effort, definitely a statement from Andretti Autosport and congrats to Ryan.”
Tony Kanaan followed his runner-up finish to Hunter-Reay at Milwaukee with a third place and Scott Dixon was fourth. Simon Pagenaud, who started last in the 25-car field, climbed to fifth in his fourth oval race.
Izod IndyCar Series
Iowa Speedway – Newton, IA
Iowa Corn Indy 250 – June 23, 2012
1 Ryan Hunter-Reay 250 Running
2 Marco Andretti 250 Running
3 Tony Kanaan 250 Running
4 Scott Dixon 250 Running
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10 Justin Wilson 249 Running
11 Charlie Kimball 248 Running
12 Takuma Sato 247 Running
13 James Jakes 245 Running
14 Simona de Silvestro 244 Running
15 Katherine Legge 243 Contact
16 Alex Tagliani 207 Mechanical
17 James Hinchcliffe 195 Contact
18 Ryan Briscoe 178 Contact
19 Josef Newgarden 178 Contact
20 Mike Conway 123 Mechanical
21 Oriol Servia 98 Mechanical
22 JR Hildebrand 95 Contact
23 Will Power 67 Contact
24 EJ Viso 67 Contact
25 Dario Franchitti 0 Mechanical
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