2013 Iowa Corn Indy 250

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Flag of the United States.svg 2013 Iowa Corn Indy 250
Race details
10th round of the 2013 IndyCar Series season
Iowa Speedway track map.png
DateJune 23, 2013
Official name Iowa Corn Indy 250
Location Iowa Speedway
CoursePermanent racing facility
0.875 mi / 1.4 km
Distance250 laps
218.75 mi / 352.044 km
Pole position
Driver Hélio Castroneves  (Team Penske)
Time17.3324
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.

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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

PosNo.DriverTeamEngineLapsTime/RetiredPit StopsGridLaps LedPoints 1
127 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg James Hinchcliffe Andretti Autosport Chevrolet 2501:30:16.02663222660
21 Flag of the United States.svg Ryan Hunter-Reay Andretti Autosport Chevrolet 250+ 1.500941240
311 Flag of Brazil.svg Tony Kanaan KV Racing Technology Chevrolet 250+ 1.68914538
420 Flag of the United States.svg Ed Carpenter Ed Carpenter Racing Chevrolet 250+ 2.7605441837
515 Flag of the United States.svg Graham Rahal Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Honda 250+ 3.020136133
677 Flag of France.svg Simon Pagenaud Schmidt Hamilton Motorsports Honda 250+ 6.66543829
74 Flag of Spain.svg Oriol Servià Panther Racing Chevrolet 250+ 9.70063728
83 Flag of Brazil.svg Hélio Castroneves Team Penske Chevrolet 250+ 10.685531133
925 Flag of the United States.svg Marco Andretti Andretti Autosport Chevrolet 250+ 12.71333328
105 Flag of Venezuela.svg E. J. Viso Andretti Autosport Chevrolet 250+ 17.615731620
1119 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Justin Wilson Dale Coyne Racing Honda 249+ 1 lap410520
1283 Flag of the United States.svg Charlie Kimball Chip Ganassi Racing Honda 249+ 1 lap41418
1355 Flag of France.svg Tristan Vautier Schmidt Peterson Motorsports Honda 248+ 2 laps31317
147 Flag of France.svg Sebastian Bourdais Dragon Racing Chevrolet 248+ 2 laps31916
1567 Flag of the United States.svg Josef Newgarden Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing Honda 248+ 2 laps32215
169 Flag of New Zealand.svg Scott Dixon Chip Ganassi Racing Honda 247+ 3 laps31519
1712 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Will Power Team Penske Chevrolet 247+ 3 laps4121
1816 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg James Jakes Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Honda 247+ 3 laps42412
196 Flag of Colombia.svg Sebastián Saavedra Dragon Racing Chevrolet 247+ 3 laps41811
2010 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Dario Franchitti Chip Ganassi Racing Honda 246+ 4 laps52110
2178 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Simona de Silvestro KV Racing Technology Chevrolet 243+ 7 laps5209
2218 Flag of Brazil.svg Ana Beatriz Dale Coyne Racing Honda 183Mechanical3238
2314 Flag of Japan.svg Takuma Sato A. J. Foyt Enterprises Honda 162Mechanical21710
2498 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Alex Tagliani Barracuda Racing Honda 139Contact397
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.

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