Scott Dixon leads Simon Pagenaud in Toronto

Scott Dixon (Chip Ganassi Racing – Honda) won this Sunday in Toronto, Canada, ahead of simon pagenaud (Team Penske – Chevrolet) and Robert Wickens (SPM – Honda). 

Starting from pole, Josef Newgarden (Team Penske) dominated the start of the race, notably resisting an attempted attack from Dixon on the first lap. Meanwhile, Simon Pagenaud, third on the grid, lost several positions to fall back to seventh.

The first neutralization under Full Course Yellow came following the exit of Ryan Hunter-Reay (Andretti Autosport – Honda) on the 28th lap.

The restart will then upset the hierarchy, since the leader Josef Newgarden goes too wide before the long straight and hits the outside wall, leaving Scott Dixon (Chip Ganassi Racing – Honda) to take the advantage ahead of Robert Wickens (SPM – Honda) and Simon Pagenaud (Team Penske – Chevrolet).

A few meters further, a collective collision involved Will Power (Team Penske), Ryan Hunter-Reay, Max Chilton (Carlin), Sébastien Bourdais (Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser Sullivan – Honda) and Graham Rahal (RLL – Honda).

.@hondaindy crazy restart! The leader in the wall, chaos further back in the field // #IndyTO // #IndyCar pic.twitter.com/XEFbBazmP5

— IndyCar on NBC (@IndyCaronNBC) July 15, 2018

Scott Dixon, however, remains imperturbable at the head of the race and controls the end of the event despite being neutralized following the spin of René Binder (Juncos Racing – Chevrolet) to achieve a third success in 2018 and above all make the break on his direct opponents for the 2018 IndyCar title.

Behind the New Zealander, Simon Pagenaud, who returned to second thanks to his last pit stop, resisted the attack in the wake of Robert Wickens and signed a second second place in 2018 after an identical result in Texas. The Frenchman came back at the end of the race on the leader Dixon, without ever being able to attempt an attack on the Ganassi driver.

Wickens completes the podium at home and precedes his SPM teammate and compatriot James Hinchcliffe. Charlie Kimball (Carlin) enters the top 5 ahead of Tony Kanaan (AJ Foyt Enterprises – Chevrolet), Zach Veach (Andretti Autosport), Alexander Red (Andretti Autosport), Josef Newgarden and Marco Andretti (Andretti-Herta – Honda) for the top 10.

Involved in the collective incident shortly after the 30th lap, after having already made a mistake a few laps earlier, Sébastien Bourdais only finished in 19th place, two laps behind the winner.

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Discover the report of the Toronto event in Canada, in issue 2174 of AUTOhebdo, available tomorrow evening in digital version and this Wednesday on newsstands.