Ryan Hunter-Reay celebrates in victory lane after scoring his third straight Izod IndyCar victory Sunday at Toronto. Photo courtesy IndyCar/LAT USA
Following his final service stop with 30 laps remaining in the Honda Indy Toronto, Ryan Hunter-Reay was enjoying a Sunday drive on the Exhibition Place street circuit.
Hunter-Reay, in the No. 28 Team DHL/Sun Drop Citrus Soda Chevrolet, inherited the lead on lap 57 when JR Hildebrand pitted and upped his margin over Tony Kanaan from .6040 of a second to 4.0794 seconds in the matter of five laps on the 1.75-mile, 11-turn course.
Though Charlie Kimball replaced Kanaan as the protagonist on lap 72, the challenger didn’t matter. Hunter-Reay pulled away by 7.6 seconds with 10 laps left and — staying ahead of restart pileups in turns 1 and 3 with three laps left — went on to his third consecutive victory.
“This is awesome,” said Hunter-Reay. “There’s a championship run going on right now. I’m a part of it as much as everybody on this team is and they did excellent pit stops. They gave me the car to win today. We had it when it mattered again – at the end. We don’t need to win the beginning of the race. We need to win the end and it’s been such a pleasure. I can’t even believe – three races.
“This is going to take a second to settle in. Now. I’m thinking we’ve got to do it again next weekend.We started seventh in Iowa, and it is a little bit harder to pass here but in IndyCar and these street races you just have to stick with it, no matter if you’re fourteenth, you just have to keep giving 110 percent and sometimes it shakes out for you. Today we had the right strategy, we had the right race car, we had the good pit stops, and I did it on the track.”
Hunter-Reay crossed the start-finish line under caution, with Kimball securing a career-best runner-up finish.
“I know that there were only 25 of us out there, but the amount of times I passed people there felt like there were about 50 cars, so a lot of credit to the Novo Nordisk Chip Ganassi Racing crew, the 83,” said Kimball. “It was quick and all I had to do was turn and make a couple of moves when they were there. That last restart got pretty busy, but at the end of the day we came home with a clean results and all credit to Ryan. They worked the strategy, started up front and stayed there, Mike ran me reasonably clean at that last restart. Only a couple of marks on my sidepod, we made it through the corner, and as he said, it’s kind of unfortunate that with all the marbles, Seb got caught up in turn 1.”
Mike Conway came from the 11th starting spot to place a season-high third, giving A.J. Foyt Racing their first podium Brazil in 2010.
“The guys at A.J. Foyt Racing have been working really hard all year,” said Conway. “We’ve been getting in there, getting in there, and this weekend I felt like we started off better than we have before, so we just kept dialing in and come warm-up this morning, I was pretty happy with it. I knew that we could walk a way forward, but I was surprised at how good we were on that first stint and we could just move our way forward and work our way out to the front. But you know with that yellow, we got caught out there, I was in the back and had to do it all again, but it was a lot of fun, so big thank you to my crew.”
Tony Kanaan finished fourth and Oriol Servia was fifth.
Hunter-Reay, who entered the race three points behind front-runner Will Power in the IZOD IndyCar Series championship standings, heads to the Edmonton Indy with a 34-point lead as Power’s No. 12 Verizon Team Penske car finished 15th (contact with the car driven by Josef Newgarden on Lap 56). Helio Castroneves, who finished sixth, overtook Scott Dixon (out early with an engine issue) for third (46 points back).
Ten different teams were represented in the top 10 of the standings.
IZOD IndyCar Series
Exhibition Place – Toronto, Canada
Honda Indy Toronto – July 8, 2012
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1. Ryan Hunter-Reay
2. Charlie Kimball
3. Mike Conway
4. Tony Kanaan
5. Oriol Servia
6. Helio Castroneves
7. J.R. Hildebrand
8. James Jakes
9. Takuma Sato
10. Alex Tagliani
11. Rubens Barrichello
12. Simon Pagenaud
13. Josef Newgarden
14. Sebastien Bourdais
15. Will Power
16. Marco Andretti
17. Dario Franchitti
18. Ed Carpenter
19. Ryan Briscoe
20. E.J. Viso
21. Justin Wilson
22. James Hinchcliffe
23. Graham Rahal
24. Simona de Silvestro
25. Scott Dixon
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