2014 Honda Indy Toronto

2014 Honda Indy Toronto - Race 1

Race details
13th round of the 2014 IndyCar Series season
Date	July 20, 2014
Official name	Honda Indy Toronto
Location	Exhibition Place Toronto, Ontario
Course	Temporary street circuit 1.755 mi / 2.824 km
Distance	65 laps 114.075 mi / 183.586 km
Weather	Temperatures reaching up to 24.6 °C (76.3 °F)[1]
Pole position
Driver	Sébastien Bourdais (KV Racing Technology)
Time	58.9479
Fastest lap
Driver	Simon Pagenaud (Schmidt Peterson Motorsports)
Time	1:00.6954 (on lap 47 of 65)
Podium
First	Sébastien Bourdais (KV Racing Technology)
Second	Hélio Castroneves (Team Penske)
Third	Tony Kanaan (Chip Ganassi Racing)

2014 Honda Indy Toronto - Race 2

Race details
14th round of the 2014 IndyCar Series season
Date	July 20, 2014
Official name	Honda Indy Toronto
Location	Exhibition Place Toronto, Ontario
Course	Temporary street circuit 1.755 mi / 2.824 km
Distance	56 laps 98.280 mi / 158.166 km
Weather	Temperatures reaching up to 24.6 °C (76.3 °F)[1]
Pole position
Driver	Hélio Castroneves (Team Penske)
Time	Grid set by entrant points
Fastest lap
Driver	Juan Pablo Montoya (Team Penske)
Time	1:00.7896 (on lap 9 of 56)
Podium
First	Mike Conway (Ed Carpenter Racing)
Second	Tony Kanaan (Chip Ganassi Racing)
Third	Will Power (Team Penske)

The 2014 Honda Indy Toronto was a Canadian open wheel motor race, held as the thirteenth and fourteenth rounds of the 2014 IndyCar Series season. It was the 28th annual edition of the Toronto Indy, and the 29th and 30th IndyCar races to be held at the 1.755-mile (2.824 km) street circuit at Exhibition Place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The races were contested over 65 and 56 laps respectively.

Race background

Having successfully hosted a double-header race for the first time in 2013, IndyCar again scheduled two full points races for the Toronto weekend, with race one on Saturday and race two on Sunday.

After rain on Saturday washed out race one of the weekend double bill, IndyCar officials decided to reschedule the two races on Sunday, with race one in the morning and race two in the afternoon. The postponement created the first same-day doubleheader since the 1981 Kraco Twin 125s which were swept by Rick Mears at the Atlanta Motor Speedway.^[2][3]

Race 1 report

Sébastien Bourdais scored pole position for the first race of the weekend. This was Bourdais' first pole since the 2007 Bavaria Champ Car Grand Prix, at Assen.^[4] Originally scheduled to be held on Saturday afternoon, the race was held on Sunday morning; Bourdais led 58 of the race's 65 laps to take his first victory since the 2007 Gran Premio Tecate.

Race 2 report

Mike Conway driving for Ed Carpenter Racing won race 2, for his second win of the season after winning Long Beach and it marked the fourth IndyCar victory of his career. Rain fell once again during race 2, with Penske teammates Helio Castroneves and Will Power fighting for the lead early. Conway took advantage of a drying track and pitted on Lap 43 for dry weather tires knowing the slicks would be quicker. Conway took the lead on Lap 51, while Castroneves dropped off the pace, and holding on for the victory. ^[5][6][7]

Classification

Round 13

Race 1 - July 20 - 10:30am
Pos	Driver	Team	Engine	Laps	Time/Retired	Pit Stops	Grid	Laps Led	Points^1
1	Sébastien Bourdais	KV Racing Technology	Chevrolet	65	1:15:44.3232	2	1	58	54
2	Hélio Castroneves	Team Penske	Chevrolet	65	+3.3408	2	2	1	41
3	Tony Kanaan	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet	65	+4.8655	2	5		35
4	Simon Pagenaud	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	Honda	65	+5.4271	4	4	6	33
5	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet	65	+12.5472	2	9		30
6	Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Honda	65	+15.5804	2	11		28
7	Charlie Kimball	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet	65	+28.6978	2	18		26
8	James Hinchcliffe	Andretti Autosport	Honda	65	+31.1677	2	8		24
9	Will Power	Team Penske	Chevrolet	65	+33.1220	2	23		22
10	Justin Wilson	Dale Coyne Racing	Honda	65	+33.7258	2	7		20
11	Mikhail Aleshin (R)	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	Honda	65	+39.0741	2	19		19
12	Ryan Briscoe	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet	65	+43.3621	4	21		18
13	Jack Hawksworth (R)	Bryan Herta Autosport	Honda	65	+58.3644	2	15		17
14	Carlos Huertas (R)	Dale Coyne Racing	Honda	65	+58.4969	3	17		16
15	Mike Conway	Ed Carpenter Racing	Chevrolet	65	+58.9383	3	13		15
16	Marco Andretti	Andretti Autosport	Honda	65	+1:01.4298	2	20		14
17	Carlos Muñoz (R)	Andretti Autosport	Honda	65	+1:01.7675	3	14		13
18	Juan Pablo Montoya	Team Penske	Chevrolet	64	+ 1 Lap	3	22		12
19	Sebastián Saavedra	KV Racing Technology	Chevrolet	64	+ 1 Lap	3	16		11
20	Josef Newgarden	Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing	Honda	63	Contact	4	10		10
21	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	Honda	39	Contact	2	3		9
22	Luca Filippi (R)	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Honda	17	Contact	1	6		8
23	Takuma Sato	A. J. Foyt Enterprises	Honda	10	Contact	1	12		7
OFFICIAL BOX SCORE[8] UNOFFICIAL LAP REPORT[9]

Notes

¹ Points include 1 point for leading at least 1 lap during a race, an additional 2 points for leading the most race laps, and 1 point for Pole Position.

Round 14

Race 2 - July 20 - 3:15pm
Pos	Driver	Team	Engine	Laps	Time/Retired	Pit Stops	Grid	Laps Led	Points^1
1	Mike Conway	Ed Carpenter Racing	Chevrolet	56	1:20:35.5420	4	11	7	51
2	Tony Kanaan	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet	56	+3.5418	4	9		40
3	Will Power	Team Penske	Chevrolet	56	+5.1545	3	2	5	36
4	Charlie Kimball	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet	56	+5.4857	3	16		32
5	Takuma Sato	A. J. Foyt Enterprises	Honda	56	+6.6210	4	22		30
6	Jack Hawksworth (R)	Bryan Herta Autosport	Honda	56	+7.8701	5	18		28
7	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet	56	+7.9350	3	7		26
8	Marco Andretti	Andretti Autosport	Honda	56	+10.1765	4	8		24
9	Sébastien Bourdais	KV Racing Technology	Chevrolet	56	+12.0212	3	10		22
10	Justin Wilson	Dale Coyne Racing	Honda	56	+15.7853	3	15	5	21
11	Ryan Briscoe	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet	56	+15.8671	3	12		19
12	Hélio Castroneves	Team Penske	Chevrolet	56	+16.2205	3	1	32	21
13	Josef Newgarden	Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing	Honda	56	+20.9127	3	17	7	18
14	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	Honda	56	+22.6140	4	4		16
15	Carlos Huertas (R)	Dale Coyne Racing	Honda	56	+29.2715	2	20		15
16	Luca Filippi (R)	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Honda	56	+46.4382	3	23		14
17	Carlos Muñoz (R)	Andretti Autosport	Honda	52	Mechanical	6	6		13
18	James Hinchcliffe	Andretti Autosport	Honda	52	+ 4 Laps	5	13		12
19	Juan Pablo Montoya	Team Penske	Chevrolet	52	+ 4 Laps	6	5		11
20	Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Honda	50	Mechanical	3	19		10
21	Sebastián Saavedra	KV Racing Technology	Chevrolet	49	Mechanical	4	21		9
22	Simon Pagenaud	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	Honda	47	+ 9 Laps	7	3		8
23	Mikhail Aleshin (R)	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	Honda	45	Contact	0	14		7
OFFICIAL BOX SCORE[10] UNOFFICIAL LAP REPORT[11]

Standings after the event

Drivers' Championship Pos Driver Points 1 Hélio Castroneves 533 2 Will Power 520 3 Ryan Hunter-Reay 464 4 Simon Pagenaud 462 5 Juan Pablo Montoya 428 Note: Only the top five positions are included for the driver standings.

References

1. "2014 Honda Indy Toronto weather information". Old Farmers' Almanac. Retrieved September 21, 2014.
2. Keating, Steve (July 20, 2014). "Rain creates double trouble for IndyCar". Reuters. Retrieved April 24, 2015.
3. McNulty, Dean (July 20, 2014). "Sebastien Bourdais, Mike Conway win Honda Indy Toronto races". Toronto Sun. Retrieved April 24, 2015.
4. "Toronto IndyCar: Sebastien Bourdais claims first pole since 2007 - IndyCar news — AUTOSPORT.com". autosport.com. Retrieved 2014-07-19.
5. McDonald, Norris (July 20, 2014). "Sebastien Bourdais, Mike Conway Honda Indy Toronto winners". Toronto Star. Retrieved April 24, 2015.
6. Harper, Tyler (July 20, 2014). "Mike Conway, Sebastien Bourdais each win at Honda Indy Toronto doubleheader". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved April 24, 2015.
7. Oreovicz, John (July 20, 2014). "Bourdais, Conway take Toronto wins". ESPN. Retrieved April 24, 2015.
8. 2014 Honda Indy Toronto Race 1 Box Score
9. 2014 Honda Indy Toronto Race 1 Unofficial Lap Report
10. 2014 Honda Indy Toronto Race 2 Box Score
11. 2014 Honda Indy Toronto Race 2 Unofficial Lap Report

External links

• 2014 Honda Indy Toronto Race 1 Highlights (IndyCar YouTube Channel)
• 2014 Honda Indy Toronto Race 2 Highlights (IndyCar YouTube Channel)