2013 Firestone 550

2013 Firestone 550

Race details
8th round of the 2013 IndyCar Series season
Date	June 8, 2013
Official name	Firestone 550
Location	Texas Motor Speedway
Course	Permanent racing facility 1.5 mi / 2.4 km
Distance	228 laps 342 mi / 550 km
Weather	Temperatures reaching up to 90 °F (32 °C); wind speeds up to 14 miles per hour (23 km/h)
Pole position
Driver	Will Power (Team Penske)
Time	0:47.7960
Fastest lap
Driver	Tony Kanaan (KV Racing Technology)
Time	24.2769 (on lap 51 of 228)
Podium
First	Hélio Castroneves (Team Penske)
Second	Ryan Hunter-Reay (Andretti Autosport)
Third	Tony Kanaan (KV Racing Technology)

The 2013 Firestone 550 was twenty-third running of the Firestone 550 and the eighth round of the 2013 IndyCar Series season. It took place on Saturday, June 8. The race was contested over 228 laps at the 1.5-mile (2.4 km) Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas, and was televised by ABC in the United States.

Report

Background

Before coming to Texas Motor Speedway, IndyCar completed the first doubleheader of the season at Belle Isle in the Chevrolet Indy Dual in Detroit, where Mike Conway earned his first victory of the season in the first race, while Simon Pagenaud won his first IndyCar series race in the second part of the doubleheader. Entering the Firestone 550, both Marco Andretti and Hélio Castroneves were tied atop the IndyCar drivers point championship, each with 206 point, though both did not have any victories on the season. Justin Wilson entered the race as the defending champion having won the previous year's race.

Classification

Starting grid

Row	Inside		Outside
1	12	Will Power	25	Marco Andretti
2	1	Ryan Hunter-Reay	10	Dario Franchitti
3	5	E.J. Viso	3	Hélio Castroneves
4	67	Josef Newgarden	83	Charlie Kimball
5	20	Ed Carpenter	16	James Jakes
6	9	Scott Dixon	27	James Hinchcliffe
7	11	Tony Kanaan	98	Alex Tagliani
8	7	Sébastien Bourdais	4	Oriol Servia
9	15	Graham Rahal	6	Sebastián Saavedra
10	18	Pippa Mann	19	Justin Wilson
11	14	Takuma Sato	78	Simona de Silvestro †
12	77	Simon Pagenaud †	55	Tristan Vautier (R) †
† de Silvestro, Pagenaud and Vautier penalised 10 places for changing engine

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Race results

Pos	No.	Driver	Team	Engine	Laps	Time/Retired	Pit Stops	Grid	Laps Led	Points1
1	3	Hélio Castroneves	Team Penske	Chevrolet	228	1:52:17.4594	3	6	132	53
2	1	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	Chevrolet	228	+ 4.6919	4	3	35	41
3	11	Tony Kanaan	KV Racing Technology	Chevrolet	228	+ 11.6088	4	13		35
4	20	Ed Carpenter	Ed Carpenter Racing	Chevrolet	228	+ 17.6930	4	9		32
5	25	Marco Andretti	Andretti Autosport	Chevrolet	228	+ 19.5078	4	2	57	31
6	10	Dario Franchitti	Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	227	+ 1 lap	3	4		28
7	12	Will Power	Team Penske	Chevrolet	227	+ 1 lap	3	1	4	28
8	67	Josef Newgarden	Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing	Honda	227	+ 1 lap	4	7		24
9	27	James Hinchcliffe	Andretti Autosport	Chevrolet	227	+ 1 lap	4	12		22
10	5	E. J. Viso	Andretti Autosport	Chevrolet	227	+ 1 lap	4	5		20
11	14	Takuma Sato	A. J. Foyt Enterprises	Honda	227	+ 1 lap	4	21		19
12	16	James Jakes	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Honda	227	+ 1 lap	4	10		18
13	77	Simon Pagenaud	Schmidt Hamilton Motorsports	Honda	226	+ 2 laps	5	23		17
14	6	Sebastián Saavedra	Dragon Racing	Chevrolet	226	+ 2 laps	5	18		16
15	19	Justin Wilson	Dale Coyne Racing	Honda	226	+ 2 laps	3	20		15
16	78	Simona de Silvestro	KV Racing Technology	Chevrolet	226	+ 2 laps	4	22		14
17	83	Charlie Kimball	Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	226	+ 2 laps	4	8		13
18	55	Tristan Vautier	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	Honda	225	+ 3 laps	3	24		12
19	4	Oriol Servià	Panther Racing	Chevrolet	225	+ 3 laps	4	16		11
20	7	Sebastian Bourdais	Dragon Racing	Chevrolet	224	+ 4 laps	5	15		10
21	15	Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Honda	223	+ 5 laps	6	23		9
22	98	Alex Tagliani	Barracuda Racing	Honda	223	+ 5 laps	6	14		8
23	9	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	61	Mechanical	2	11		7
24	18	Pippa Mann	Dale Coyne Racing	Honda	2	Mechanical	0	19		6

Notes

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.