2013 Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio
| Race details | |
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| 14th round of the 2013 IndyCar Series season | |
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| Date | August 4, 2013 |
| Official name | Honda Indy 200 |
| Location | Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course |
| Course | Permanent racing facility 2.258 mi / 3.634 km |
| Distance | 90 laps 203.2 mi / 327.02 km |
| Weather | Temperatures reaching up to 82 °F (28 °C); wind speeds reaching up to 12 miles per hour (19 km/h) |
| Pole position | |
| Driver | Ryan Hunter-Reay (Andretti Autosport) |
| Time | 1:05.3519 |
| Podium | |
| First | Charlie Kimball (Chip Ganassi Racing) |
| Second | Simon Pagenaud (Schmidt Hamilton Motorsports) |
| Third | Dario Franchitti (Chip Ganassi Racing) |
The 2013 Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio, the 35th running of the event, was an IndyCar Series race held at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course on August 4, 2013. It was the 14th race in the 2013 IndyCar Series season. The pole position was held by Ryan Hunter-Reay of Andretti Autosport, while Chip Ganassi Racing's Charlie Kimball won the race.
The race was the seventh running since it became a part of the IndyCar schedule, and was dominated by Chip Ganassi Racing, with Scott Dixon winning four times and teammate Dario Franchitti winning once in 2010. The lone non-Ganassi win was by Team Penske's Ryan Briscoe in 2008. IndyCar extended the race by five laps to 90 laps to prevent the race from not having much competition and being determined by the driver who can manage their fuel mileage the best.
The past three races at Pocono and Toronto had been dominated by Dixon, with the Toronto sweep making him the winningest active driver in IndyCar with 32 wins, tied with Franchitti, Paul Tracy and Sébastien Bourdais. The three consecutive wins placed Dixon in contention for the championship, 29 points behind leader Helio Castroneves. Chip Ganassi Racing's three wins in 2013 are second to Andretti Autosport's five victories, with James Hinchcliffe winning three and Ryan Hunter-Reay winning two.Takuma Sato (A. J. Foyt Enterprises),Tony Kanaan (KV Racing Technology),Mike Conway (Dale Coyne Racing),Simon Pagenaud (Sam Schmidt Motorsports) and Helio Castroneves (Team Penske) won the other five races.
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