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Masterful Bourdais claims back win in Toronto

KVSH Racing’s Sébastien Bourdais win first race of Toronto Indycar Grand Prix. It’s the first victory for the Frenchman since Mexico 2007. Hélio Castroneves and Tony Kanaan complete the podium. Castroneves now is 28 points in front of Power in the driver’s championship.

The Race 1 of Toronto was scheduled for yesterday but due to the conditions of the track because of heavy rain, the organizers had decided to do this during the qualifying time of today.  But today the race starts with a red flag after a crash between Luca Filippi and Simon Pagenaud which caused a traffic jam and the retirement of Takuma Sato.

But when the race back to the green flag, Hunter-Reay took the second place after overtakes Castroneves. Luca Filippi and Carlos Huertas crashes into the wall in different points of the circuit and this caused the caution and the retirement of the Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing driver.

But his teammate came out benefited because when the pace car goes in, he overtook Wilson for the sixth place.

At the middle of the race Bourdais led this followed by Hunter-Reay, Castroneves, Kanaan, Dixon, Rahal, Wilson, Hawksworth, Hinchcliffe and Kimball in the top 10.

Castroneves seems have had more pace than Hunter-Reay and He and Target Chip Ganassi drivers overtook the Andretti Autosport car. Immediately the pit stops started and at the end of this, Pagenaud took the leadership with Bourdais second, Huertas third, Castroneves fourth and Kanaan fifth.

Pagenaud had an incredible pace and push his machine after his last pit stop in the fourth place; amazing stuff of Schmidt Peterson Motorsports team after the accident who involved the Frenchman during the opening lap of the race.

Finally, Bourdais takes the victory with Castroneves and Kanaan completing the podium positions.

Castroneves now leads the driver’s championship with 28 points of distance with his teammate, Will Power. Simon Pagenaud is now third and Hunter-Reay downs to fourth place. Montoya is fifth.

Results:

Pos. Car Driver Team Gap Diff
1 11 Sebastien Bourdais FRA KVSH Racing 65 Laps
2 3 Helio Castroneves BRA Team Penske + 3,340 + 3,340
3 10 Tony Kanaan BRA Target Chip Ganassi Racing + 4,865 + 1,525
4 77 Simon Pagenaud FRA Schmidt Peterson Motorsports + 5,427 + 0,562
5 9 Scott Dixon AUS Target Chip Ganassi Racing + 12,547 + 7,120
6 15 Graham Rahal USA Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing + 15,580 + 3,033
7 83 Charlie Kimball USA Novo Nordisk Chip Ganassi Racing + 28,697 + 13,117
8 27 James Hinchcliffe CAN Andretti Autosport + 31,167 + 2,470
9 19 Justin Wilson GBR Dale Coyne Racing + 1 Lap
10 12 Will Power AUS Team Penske + 1 Lap
11 7 Mikhail Aleshin RUS Schmidt Peterson Motorsports + 1 Lap
12 8 Ryan Briscoe AUS NTT Data Chip Ganassi Racing + 1 Lap
13 98 Jack Hawksworth GBR BHA / BBM with Curb-Agajanian + 1 Lap
14 20 Mike Conway GBR Ed Carpenter Racing + 1 Lap
15 18 Carlos Huertas COL Dale Coyne Racing + 1 Lap
16 25 Marco Andretti USA Andretti Autosport + 1 Lap
17 34 Carlos Muñoz COL Andretti Autosport – HVM Racing + 1 Lap
18 2 Juan Pablo Montoya COL Team Penske + 1 Lap
19 17 Sebastien Saavedra COL KV AFS Racing + 1 Lap
20 67 Josef Newgarden USA Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing + 2 Laps
28 Ryan Hunter-Reay USA Andretti Autosport + 26 Laps
16 Luca Filippi ITA Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing + 48 Laps
14 Takuma Sato JAP A.J. Foyt Enterprises Contact