TORONTO, Canada - 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. Hunter-Reay crossed the start-finish line under caution, with Kimball securing a career-best runner-up finish and Mike Conway coming from the 11th starting spot to place a season-high third (the first podium for A.J. Foyt Racing since Brazil in 2010). 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.
TORONTO - Results Sunday of the Honda Indy Toronto IZOD IndyCar Series event on the 1.755 mile Streets of Toronto, with order of finish, starting position in parentheses, driver, chassis-engine, laps completed and reason out (if any):
1. (6) Ryan Hunter-Reay, Dallara-Chevy, 85, Running
2. (13) Charlie Kimball, Dallara-Honda, 85, Running
3. (11) Mike Conway, Dallara-Honda, 85, Running
4. (17) Tony Kanaan, Dallara-Chevy, 85, Running
5. (14) Oriol Servia, Dallara-Chevy, 85, Running
6. (7) Helio Castroneves, Dallara-Chevy, 85, Running
7. (15) JR Hildebrand, Dallara-Chevy, 85, Running
8. (24) James Jakes, Dallara-Honda, 85, Running
9. (9) Takuma Sato, Dallara-Honda, 85, Running
10. (16) Alex Tagliani, Dallara-Honda, 85, Running
11. (18) Rubens Barrichello, Dallara-Chevy, 85, Running
12. (8) Simon Pagenaud, Dallara-Honda, 85, Running
13. (20) Josef Newgarden, Dallara-Honda, 84, Running
14. (4) Sebastien Bourdais, Dallara-Chevy, 84, Running
15. (2) Will Power, Dallara-Chevy, 84, Running
16. (22) Marco Andretti, Dallara-Chevy, 84, Running
17. (1) Dario Franchitti, Dallara-Honda, 84, Running
18. (21) Ed Carpenter, Dallara-Chevy, 84, Running
19. (12) Ryan Briscoe, Dallara-Chevy, 83, Contact
20. (23) EJ Viso, Dallara-Chevy, 81, Running
21. (3) Justin Wilson, Dallara-Honda, 67, Contact
22. (19) James Hinchcliffe, Dallara-Chevy, 28, Mechanical
23. (10) Graham Rahal, Dallara-Honda, 23, Contact
24. (25) Simona de Silvestro, Dallara-Lotus, 9, Mechanical
25. (5) Scott Dixon, Dallara-Honda, 7, Mechanical
Race Statistics
Winners average speed: 95.787
Time of Race: 01:33:26.5096
Margin of victory: Under Caution
Cautions: 8
Lead changes: 5
Lap Leaders:
Franchitti 1 - 5
Power 6 - 25
Pagenaud 26 - 48
Hunter-Reay 49 - 55
Hildebrand 56
Hunter-Reay 57 - 85
Point Standings: Hunter-Reay 335, Power 301, Castroneves 289, Dixon 281, Hinchcliffe 268, Kanaan 267, Pagenaud 264, Franchitti 230, Briscoe 217, Servia 215.
