| Race details | |
|---|---|
| 10th round of the2013 IndyCar Series season | |
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| 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) |
The2013 Iowa Corn Indy 250 Presented by DEKALB,[1] the seventh annual running of the event, was anIndyCar Series race held on June 23, 2013 atIowa Speedway inNewton, Iowa. The race was the tenth round of the2013 IndyCar Series season, and was won byJames Hinchcliffe ofAndretti Autosport.
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 byAndretti Autosport driversJames Hinchcliffe andRyan Hunter-Reay, each winning two races. Thedefending race winner was Hunter-Reay.
Hélio Castroneves ofTeam 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 in2008 byRyan Briscoe. Castroneves also won thepole 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 teammateWill Power was given the pole, withJames Hinchcliffe in second,Marco Andretti in third andEd Carpenter in fourth, takingScott Dixon's spot, who was also penalized for improperly changing engines.[3] Defending race winnerRyan 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]
On lap one,James Hinchcliffe passed pole-sitterWill 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 teammateRyan 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, givingAndretti 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 andGraham Rahal finished fourth and fifth, respectively.[1]Simon Pagenaud,Oriol Servia,Hélio Castroneves,Marco Andretti, andE. J. Viso closed out the top ten.[13]
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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