RYAN HUNTER-REAY, 2ND - MIKE CONWAY, 1ST - JUSTIN WILSON, 3RD
They were able to beat the rain and Mike Conway won by a nearly a full 12 seconds. That doesn't happen very often in IndyCar, they are uaually much closer than that, tenths or hundredths of a second. Conway was brought in for the race by Dale Coyne Racing, the team that went 20 years without a win and has now had three. To add the icing to the cake, Justin Wilson, came in third and is also from Dale Coyne Racing. Second place went to Ryan Hunter-Reay, last year's champion.
In some ways Detroit still has a problem getting it together. If anyone remembers that last year they had a problem with the track coming apart. Repair patches pulling up and leaving large holes in the track and the patches getting tangled up in the cars. This year they had some loose tires that were used to warn drivers of the road edge (I think), but when these were hit they went out into the track interferring with at least three cars.
And what of Tony Kanaan and Takuma Sato? Kanaan claimed that his car was 'horrible' even though he spent some time in the front. Sato had a spin and his car was never the same after that. Kanaan ended in 13th and Sato in 19th.
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