2013 Grand Prix of Baltimore
| Race details | |
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| 16th round of the 2013 IndyCar Series season | |
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| Date | September 1, 2013 |
| Official name | Grand Prix of Baltimore |
| Location | Baltimore, Maryland |
| Course | Temporary street circuit 2.040 mi / 3.283 km |
| Distance | 75 laps 153.000 mi / 246.225 km |
| Weather | Temperatures up to 91.9 °F (33.3 °C) with calm winds reported throughout the day |
| Pole position | |
| Driver | Scott Dixon (Chip Ganassi Racing) |
| Time | 1:18.0838 |
| Podium | |
| First | Simon Pagenaud (Sam Schmidt Motorsports) |
| Second | Josef Newgarden (Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing) |
| Third | Sebastian Bourdais (Dragon Racing) |
The 2013 Grand Prix of Baltimore, the third running of the event, was an IndyCar Series race held on September 1, 2013 on the streets of Baltimore, Maryland. The race was the sixteenth of the 2013 IndyCar Series season, and will be the final running of the Grand Prix of Baltimore for at least two years, and possibly longer, due to scheduling conflicts.Scott Dixon started on the pole position, while Simon Pagenaud of Sam Schmidt Motorsports won the race.
The previous race in the season, the GoPro Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma, was won by Will Power. The winner of the previous race was Ryan Hunter-Reay.
In the season, James Hinchcliffe and Scott Dixon were tied for the most wins with three. In the points race, Helio Castroneves held the points lead with 479 points, followed by Dixon (440), Ryan Hunter-Reay (417), Marco Andretti (409), and Simon Pagenaud (380) rounded out the top five.
Scott Dixon won the pole position with a lap time of 1:18.0838 and lap speed of 94.053 miles per hour (151.364 km/h) for his second pole of the year, becoming 14th all-time among IndyCar Series drivers for career poles, passing Danny Sullivan and drawing with Gordon Johncock.Will Power (94.013 miles per hour (151.299 km/h)), Simon Pagenaud (93.637 miles per hour (150.694 km/h)), Justin Wilson (93.115 miles per hour (149.854 km/h)) and Josef Newgarden (93.077 miles per hour (149.793 km/h)) filled out the top five starting spots. Tristan Vautier (92.917 miles per hour (149.535 km/h)), Helio Castroneves (92.928 miles per hour (149.553 km/h)), Ryan Hunter-Reay (92.919 miles per hour (149.539 km/h)), Charlie Kimball (92.901 miles per hour (149.510 km/h)), and Takuma Sato (92.702 miles per hour (149.189 km/h)) filled out the bottom half of the top ten.
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