| Race details | |
|---|---|
| 16th round of the2013 IndyCar Series season | |
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| Date | September 1, 2013 |
| Official name | Grand Prix of Baltimore |
| Location | Baltimore,Maryland |
| Course | Temporary street circuit 2.040 mi / 3.283 km |
| Distance | 75 laps 153.000 mi / 246.225 km |
| Weather | Temperatures up to 91.9 °F (33.3 °C) with calm winds reported throughout the day[1] |
| Pole position | |
| Driver |  Scott Dixon (Chip Ganassi Racing) |
| Time | 1:18.0838 |
| Driver |  |
| Podium | |
| First |  Simon Pagenaud (Sam Schmidt Motorsports) |
| Second |  Josef Newgarden (Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing) |
| Third | Sebastian Bourdais (Dragon Racing) |
The2013 Grand Prix of Baltimore, the third running of theevent, was anIndyCar Series race held on September 1, 2013 on the streets ofBaltimore, Maryland. The race was the sixteenth of the2013 IndyCar Series season, and was the final running of the Grand Prix of Baltimore.[2]Scott Dixon started on thepole position, whileSimon Pagenaud ofSam Schmidt Motorsports won the race.
The previous race in the season, theGoPro Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma, was won byWill Power.[3] The winner of theprevious race wasRyan Hunter-Reay.[4]
In the season,James Hinchcliffe[5][6] andScott Dixon[7][8] were tied for the most wins with three. In the points race,Hélio Castroneves held the points lead with 479 points, followed by Dixon (440), Ryan Hunter-Reay (417),Marco Andretti (409), andSimon Pagenaud (380) rounded out the top five.[9]
Scott Dixon won thepole position with a lap time of 1:18.0838[10] and lap speed of 94.053 miles per hour (151.364 km/h) for his second pole of the year,[11] becoming 14th all-time among IndyCar Series drivers for career poles, passingDanny Sullivan and drawing withGordon Johncock.[10]Will Power (94.013 miles per hour (151.299 km/h)),Simon Pagenaud (93.637 miles per hour (150.694 km/h)),Justin Wilson (93.115 miles per hour (149.854 km/h)) andJosef Newgarden (93.077 miles per hour (149.793 km/h)) filled out the top five starting spots.Tristan Vautier (92.917 miles per hour (149.535 km/h)),Hélio Castroneves (92.928 miles per hour (149.553 km/h)),Ryan Hunter-Reay (92.919 miles per hour (149.539 km/h)),Charlie Kimball (92.901 miles per hour (149.510 km/h)), andTakuma Sato (92.702 miles per hour (149.189 km/h)) filled out the bottom half of the top ten.[11]
The race was marred by sixcautions, five of which took place between laps 41 and 65, the lone exception occurring on lap 13 withEd Carpenter's car stopping in turn 5 andLuca Filippi leaving the track in turn 3 due to a fire in the engine compartment. On lap 41,Stefan Wilson hit the turn 7 wall, while seven laps later,Scott Dixon was spun byGraham Rahal in turn 1. Five laps later,Will Power collided with Dixon and was sent spinning into the wall, and four laps later,Oriol Servia andSebastian Bourdais also touched, and the latter was turned. On lap 63, six cars were involved in an accident.[12][13] Also during the race,Hélio Castroneves wasblack-flagged for a safety violation.[14] Meanwhile,Simon Pagenaud was able to take the lead and hold offJosef Newgarden to win with a four-second advantage, his second victory of the year.[15] Bourdais finished third,Justin Wilson andSimona de Silvestro closed out the top five;Charlie Kimball,James Hinchcliffe,Sebastián Saavedra, Castroneves andMarco Andretti rounded out the top ten.[13]
After the race, Castroneves continued to lead the points standings with 501 points. Dixon was 49 points behind with 452, while Pagenaud took third with 431. Andretti andRyan Hunter-Reay were in fourth and fifth with 430 and 427 points, respectively. Wilson (393),Dario Franchitti (388), Hinchcliffe (376),Will Power (371), and Kimball (363) finished the top ten in points.[13]
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