Helio Castroneves (Penske) was able to earn his second victory of the season after having to fight-off Takuma Sato (Rahal-Letterman) all thru the final stint of the race in Edmonton.
During the last six laps, Castroneves and Sato relied heavily on their Push To Pass but the Japanese was never able to put himself into position to overtake the Brazilian.
In large part due to a good strategy, Will Power (Penske) was able to come back from 17th on the starting grid to a third-place finish in front of Graham Rahal (Ganassi) and Alex Tagliani (Bryan Herta Autosport). Shortly after the start, Tagliani had passed polesitter Dario Franchitti and continued to lead right through the first two cycles of pitstops. But his speed fell away in the third stint, and had to fall back in the rank to finally take the final top 5 spot. The other Canadian, James Hinchcliffe, had to settle for a distant 12th place after having had a somewhat difficult week-end.
IndyCar Indy of Edmonton Results - 75 laps: Pos Driver Team/Car Time/Gap 1. Helio Castroneves Penske Dallara-Chevy 1h38m50.9294s 2. Takuma Sato Rahal Dallara-Honda + 0.8367s 3. Will Power Penske Dallara-Chevy + 5.3697s 4. Graham Rahal Ganassi Dallara-Honda + 6.9481s 5. Alex Tagliani Herta Dallara-Honda + 15.2358s 6. Dario Franchitti Ganassi Dallara-Honda + 15.8757s 7. Ryan Hunter-Reay Andretti Dallara-Chevy + 21.5357s 8. Ryan Briscoe Penske Dallara-Chevy + 23.5311s 9. Justin Wilson Coyne Dallara-Honda + 26.3280s 10. Scott Dixon Ganassi Dallara-Honda + 26.6481s 11. Mike Conway Foyt Dallara-Honda + 27.0458s 12. James Hinchcliffe Andretti Dallara-Chevy + 31.4527s 13. Rubens Barrichello KV Dallara-Chevy + 35.1256s 14. Marco Andretti Andretti Dallara-Chevy + 39.8669s 15. Sebastien Bourdais Dragon Dallara-Chevy + 40.8154s 16. EJ Viso KV Dallara-Chevy + 55.1028s 17. Josef Newgarden Fisher Dallara-Honda + 56.0449s 18. Tony Kanaan KV Dallara-Chevy + 57.0272s 19. Charlie Kimball Ganassi Dallara-Honda + 1m04.8947s 20. Simon Pagenaud Schmidt Dallara-Honda + 1 lap 21. JR Hildebrand Panther Dallara-Chevy + 1 lap 22. Ed Carpenter Carpenter Dallara-Chevy + 1 lap 23. Simona de Silvestro HVM Dallara-Lotus + 2 laps Retirements: Oriol Servia Panther/DRR Dallara-Chevy 65 laps James Jakes Coyne Dallara-Honda 43 laps
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