“It’s cool just to be up in that group and I’m really proud of the team”. “If there was something major wrong, I think they would have seen it already. There’s no point, there’s no reason for it. It didn’t help me”.
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“We’re going to have to try and find a little bit more in ourselves over the course of the evening and warm up tomorrow”, Hinchcliffe said. Look for him to win for the second time today. It also was Hinchcliffe’s best qualifying result in seven career IndyCar starts in Toronto.
Power signs autographs after his victory.
From that point on Castroneves and company switched to their alternative pit strategy, which was surely aided by the amount of cautions Sunday’s race saw.
The Chip Ganassi Racing driver used his two Toronto wins in 2013 to springboard him to an IndyCar Series championship.
Meanwhile, Schmidt Peterson Motorsports driver Hinchcliffe, who had fallen to back of the pack at one stage, asserted himself with fewer than 20 laps to go to shoot into third seemingly in a flash, opting against pitting in the same window many others did.
“When we went out again on the third one, about to repeat the same lap time we did on the first run”. By the finish, he’d made it back to ninth, albeit not without controversy. “We are thrilled that they are joining us to celebrate 30 years of racing on the streets of Toronto with such an impactful presence”. While running third Power’s strategist Tim Cindric called Power to the pits for his final stop of the race. “Just a fantastic day”.
“We’ll give them a tough time so we can show we’ve been the strongest this year”.
It’s easy to forget that Power missed the first race of the season with an inner ear issue.
Jon, a life-long vehicle racing enthusiast, said his son had begged for years to attend the Indy, but he wanted to wait until the youngster could appreciate it.
“Team called me in just at the last minute and ideal timing”, Power said.
Power was IndyCar’s champion in 2014. It leaves him third in the points, 74 behind Pagenaud.
Castroneves was due that break.
Debris in Turn 5 caused a Lap 45 caution, allowing Hinchcliffe to make his second pit stop on Lap 47.
Organizers are hoping the main event is as exciting as the Saturday main event, the NASCAR stock auto Pinty’s Grand Prix, which featured a drag race to the finish line between Tagliani and Ranger, with Kevin Lacroix third. Kanaan was left to settle for fourth ahead of Sato, Mikhail Aleshin and Bourdais.
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Newgarden’s quick hands tried valiantly to grab the wheel, but it was moving too quickly, and it appeared to shake the wrist. He hit the right spot on the vehicle on the setup. Sitting in the auto in the immediate aftermath, Newgarden flexed the wrist to test its usage, then he lifted his helmet visor. Their problems pale to those of Newgarden, however, as though the Iowa race victor emerged from the incident healthy, he would finish last and move from second to fifth in the series standings. I couldn’t believe it was yellow coming down the pit lane. He had twice finished eighth.
