2013 Iowa Corn Indy 250

2013 Iowa Corn Indy 250

Race details
10th round of the 2013 IndyCar Series season
Date	June 23, 2013
Official name	Iowa Corn Indy 250
Location	Iowa Speedway
Course	Permanent racing facility 0.875 mi / 1.4 km
Distance	250 laps 218.75 mi / 352.044 km
Pole position
Driver	Hélio Castroneves  (Team Penske)
Time	17.3324
Driver
Podium
First	James Hinchcliffe  (Andretti Autosport)
Second	Ryan Hunter-Reay  (Andretti Autosport)
Third	Tony Kanaan  (KV Racing Technology)

The 2013 Iowa Corn Indy 250 Presented by DEKALB, ^[1] the seventh annual running of the event, was an IndyCar Series race held on June 23, 2013 at Iowa Speedway in Newton, Iowa. The race was the tenth round of the 2013 IndyCar Series season, and was won by James Hinchcliffe of Andretti Autosport.

Report

Background

Iowa Speedway is the shortest track on the IndyCar schedule, being .875 miles long. ^[2] Four of the first nine races in the season were dominated by Andretti Autosport drivers James Hinchcliffe and Ryan Hunter-Reay, each winning two races. The defending race winner was Hunter-Reay.

Qualifying

Hélio Castroneves of Team Penske set the one-lap track record in qualifying with a time of 17.3324 seconds and a speed of 185.65 mph (298.77 km/h), breaking the record set in 2008 by Ryan Briscoe. Castroneves also won the pole position after winning the qualifying heat race, but IndyCar officials ruled that Castroneves and his team had an improper engine change, changing engines before it ran the minimum 2,000 miles (3,218 km). Because of this, Penske teammate Will Power was given the pole, with James Hinchcliffe in second, Marco Andretti in third and Ed Carpenter in fourth, taking Scott Dixon's spot, who was also penalized for improperly changing engines. ^[3] Defending race winner Ryan Hunter-Reay failed to advance out of the preliminary heat. ^[4] The starting grid for the race was decided by three 50-lap heat races. Dixon won the first race, ^[5] Graham Rahal won heat 2, ^[6] and Castroneves won the final heat. ^[7]

Race

On lap one, James Hinchcliffe passed pole-sitter Will Power for the lead, ^[8] and proceeded to dominate the race, leading all but 24 laps, a track-record 226 laps; ^[9] he had led only 33 laps on ovals prior to the race. ^[10] Hinchcliffe's teammate Ryan Hunter-Reay fell behind with early right front car damage early in the race, and was in 21st, but was able to reach second, but was slowed by lapped cars. ^[11] Hinchcliffe beat Hunter-Reay to the finish by 1.5009 seconds, giving Andretti Autosport its second consecutive 1-2 finish at the track, and the team's fifth win at the track. ^[12] The win was Hinchcliffe's third of the season, making him the first three-race winner of the season, and was also his first on an oval. ^[10] Tony Kanaan finished third, Ed Carpenter and Graham Rahal finished fourth and fifth, respectively. ^[1] Simon Pagenaud, Oriol Servia, Hélio Castroneves, Marco Andretti, and E. J. Viso closed out the top ten. ^[13]

Race results

Pos	No.	Driver	Team	Engine	Laps	Time/Retired	Pit Stops	Grid	Laps Led	Points 1
1	27	James Hinchcliffe	Andretti Autosport	Chevrolet	250	1:30:16.0266	3	2	226	60
2	1	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	Chevrolet	250	+ 1.5009	4	12		40
3	11	Tony Kanaan	KV Racing Technology	Chevrolet	250	+ 1.6891	4	5		38
4	20	Ed Carpenter	Ed Carpenter Racing	Chevrolet	250	+ 2.7605	4	4	18	37
5	15	Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Honda	250	+ 3.0201	3	6	1	33
6	77	Simon Pagenaud	Schmidt Hamilton Motorsports	Honda	250	+ 6.6654	3	8		29
7	4	Oriol Servià	Panther Racing	Chevrolet	250	+ 9.7006	3	7		28
8	3	Hélio Castroneves	Team Penske	Chevrolet	250	+ 10.6855	3	11		33
9	25	Marco Andretti	Andretti Autosport	Chevrolet	250	+ 12.7133	3	3		28
10	5	E. J. Viso	Andretti Autosport	Chevrolet	250	+ 17.6157	3	16		20
11	19	Justin Wilson	Dale Coyne Racing	Honda	249	+ 1 lap	4	10	5	20
12	83	Charlie Kimball	Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	249	+ 1 lap	4	14		18
13	55	Tristan Vautier	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	Honda	248	+ 2 laps	3	13		17
14	7	Sebastian Bourdais	Dragon Racing	Chevrolet	248	+ 2 laps	3	19		16
15	67	Josef Newgarden	Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing	Honda	248	+ 2 laps	3	22		15
16	9	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	247	+ 3 laps	3	15		19
17	12	Will Power	Team Penske	Chevrolet	247	+ 3 laps	4	1		21
18	16	James Jakes	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Honda	247	+ 3 laps	4	24		12
19	6	Sebastián Saavedra	Dragon Racing	Chevrolet	247	+ 3 laps	4	18		11
20	10	Dario Franchitti	Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	246	+ 4 laps	5	21		10
21	78	Simona de Silvestro	KV Racing Technology	Chevrolet	243	+ 7 laps	5	20		9
22	18	Ana Beatriz	Dale Coyne Racing	Honda	183	Mechanical	3	23		8
23	14	Takuma Sato	A. J. Foyt Enterprises	Honda	162	Mechanical	2	17		10
24	98	Alex Tagliani	Barracuda Racing	Honda	139	Contact	3	9		7

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.

References

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