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Will Power, driver of the No. 12 Verizon Chevrolet, won Dual No.2 in Detroit at Detroit Belle Isle.
A strong car all race long, along with his strategist Tim Cindric making a good pit road strategy call to pit under the caution, which got him good position towards the end of the race made the difference. After Sebastian Bourdais and Graham Rahal pitted in the final 20 laps, Power took the lead and never looked back.
Simon Pagenaud, driver of the No. 22 Hewlett Packard Chevrolet, finished the race in the second position. He led 40 out of the 70 laps.
Ryan Hunter-Reay, driver of the No. 28 DHL Honda, finished the race in third position. He started the race in second and stayed in the top-five pretty much the whole race.
Josef Newgarden, driver of the No. 21 Fuzzy Chevrolet, finished in fourth position despite contact twice on the track. Scott Dixon, driver of the No. 9 Target Chevrolet, finished the race in fifth place. This was a good save for him because he almost lost the car on Lap one.
Rounding out the top-10 was Conor Daly, Tony Kanaan, Sebastien Bourdais, Marco Andretti and Takuma Sato.
There were quit a few incidents throughout the 70 lap race, which began right away on the first lap in turn one as Takuma Sato, James Hinchcliffe, Max Chilton, Charlie Kimball and Carlos Munoz were all involved in a big crash with Chilton and Hinchcliffe taken the blunt end of it. Kimball moved out of line, which resulted in Munoz getting into Hinchcliffe, which put Hinch into the wall. Chilton hit the wall behind them, with Sato spinning behind them. Andretti would then clip Sato’s stalled car with his right wing. Sato, Andretti and Munoz were able to fix their cars and continue on in the race.
The first lap incident allowed Graham Rahal to stay on the lead lap as he had pitted during the pace laps with brake issues. His team was able to bleed to brakes, getting them to work and allowing him to return to the race.
On Lap 24, Dixon and Juan Pablo Montoya make contract with each other due to side by side racing, which ripped apart Montoya’s front wing. Montoya’s day got worse as on Lap 35, the Team Penske driver got loose, hitting the outside wall causing damage, followed by hitting the inside wall.
Jack Hawksworth stalled on Lap 51, bringing out the final caution.
