Christian Lundgaard became the first Danish driver to win in the NTT IndyCar Series, capturing the Honda Indy Toronto by 11. 7893 seconds over points leader Alex Palou.
Lundgaard, who will turn 22 on July 23, ended a nearly three-year winless streak for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing. RLL’s previous victory was Aug. 23, 2020 by Takuma Sato in the Indianapolis 500. Triumphing on the 11-turn, 1.786-mile circuit around Exhibition Place, Lundgaard delivered the team’s first street course victory since Graham Rahal in 2017.
Winning in the 28th start of his IndyCar career, Lundgaard started on the pole position and led a race-high 54 of 85 laps.
With his sixth consecutive finish of fourth or better, Palou extended his championship lead to 117 points over teammate Scott Dixon with seven races remaining in the season.
Colton Herta earned his first podium of the season with a season-best third.
Here are the IndyCar results and points standings Sunday after the Honda Indy Toronto:
RESULTS
Click here for the box score from the 85-lap race on the 11-turn, 1.768-mile street course in Toronto.
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Event summary
Here is the finishing order in the Honda Indy 200 with starting position in parentheses, driver, engine, laps completed and reason out (if any):
1. (1) Christian Lundgaard, Honda, 85, Running
2. (15) Alex Palou, Honda, 85, Running
3. (14) Colton Herta, Honda, 85, Running
4. (7) Scott Dixon, Honda, 85, Running
5. (11) Josef Newgarden, Chevrolet, 85, Running
6. (2) Scott McLaughlin, Chevrolet, 85, Running
7. (10) Marcus Armstrong, Honda, 85, Running
8. (3) Pato O’Ward, Chevrolet, 85, Running
9. (27) Graham Rahal, Honda, 85, Running
10. (5) Felix Rosenqvist, Chevrolet, 85, Running
11. (4) Marcus Ericsson, Honda, 85, Running
12. (18) Agustin Canapino, Chevrolet, 85, Running
13. (12) Rinus VeeKay, Chevrolet, 85, Running
14. (6) Will Power, Chevrolet, 85, Running
15. (8) Kyle Kirkwood, Honda, 85, Running
16. (26) Alexander Rossi, Chevrolet, 84, Running
17. (24) Santino Ferrucci, Chevrolet, 82, Running
18. (16) Callum Ilott, Chevrolet, 81, Contact
19. (23) Sting Ray Robb, Honda, 81, Running
20. (17) David Malukas, Honda, 69, Contact
21. (13) Helio Castroneves, Honda, 45, Contact
22. (9) Romain Grosjean, Honda, 41, Contact
23. (22) Devlin DeFrancesco, Honda, 10, Mechanical
24. (19) Jack Harvey, Honda, 0, Contact
25. (20) Tom Blomqvist, Honda, 0, Contact
26. (21) Ryan Hunter-Reay, Chevrolet, 0, Contact
27. (25) Benjamin Pedersen, Chevrolet, 0, Contact
Winner’s average speed: 89.361 mph; Time of race: 1 hour, 41 minutes, 55.8001 seconds; Margin of victory: 11.7893 seconds; Cautions: 3 for 16 laps; Lead changes: Seven among four drivers; Lap leaders: Lundgaard 1-18; McLaughlin 19-34; Ericsson 35; Dixon 36; Lundgaard 37-48; McLaughlin 49-60; Dixon 61; Lundgaard 62-85.
POINTS
Click here for the points tally in Sunday’s race.
Here are the points standings after the 10th race of the season for:
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Top 10 in points: Palou 417, Dixon 300, Newgarden 291, Ericsson 275, O’Ward 274, McLaughlin 258, Lundgaard 248, Power 242, Herta 239, Rossi 230
Rest of the standings: Kirkwood 192, Rosenqvist 183, Grosjean 175, Rahal 167, VeeKay 158, Armstrong 156, Ilott 154, Ferrucci 138, Malukas 134, Canapino 113, Castroneves 113, DeFrancesco 111, Harvey 101, Conor Daly 98, Simon Pagenaud 88, Robb 82, Pedersen 80, Hunter-Reay 49, Takuma Sato 37, Ed Carpenter 27, Tony Kanaan 18, Marco Andretti 13, Blomqvist 5, RC Enerson 5, Katherine Legge 5.
NEXT: The NTT IndyCar Series will race July 22 at Iowa Speedway. The race will be broadcast at 3 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock.
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