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2014 Honda Indy Toronto

2014 Honda Indy Toronto - Race 1
Race details
13th round of the 2014 IndyCar Series season
Honda Indy Toronto 2014 Logo.jpg
Date July 20, 2014
Official name Honda Indy Toronto
Location Exhibition Place
Toronto, Ontario
Course Temporary street circuit
1.755 mi / 2.824 km
Distance 65 laps
114.075 mi / 183.586 km
Weather Temperatures reaching up to 24.6 °C (76.3 °F)
Pole position
Driver Sébastien Bourdais (KV Racing Technology)
Time 58.9479
Fastest lap
Driver Simon Pagenaud (Schmidt Peterson Motorsports)
Time 1:00.6954 (on lap 47 of 65)
Podium
First Sébastien Bourdais (KV Racing Technology)
Second Hélio Castroneves (Team Penske)
Third Tony Kanaan (Chip Ganassi Racing)
2014 Honda Indy Toronto - Race 2
Race details
14th round of the 2014 IndyCar Series season
Toronto, Ontario street circuit track map.svg
Date July 20, 2014
Official name Honda Indy Toronto
Location Exhibition Place
Toronto, Ontario
Course Temporary street circuit
1.755 mi / 2.824 km
Distance 56 laps
98.280 mi / 158.166 km
Weather Temperatures reaching up to 24.6 °C (76.3 °F)
Pole position
Driver Hélio Castroneves (Team Penske)
Time Grid set by entrant points
Fastest lap
Driver Juan Pablo Montoya (Team Penske)
Time 1:00.7896 (on lap 9 of 56)
Podium
First Mike Conway (Ed Carpenter Racing)
Second Tony Kanaan (Chip Ganassi Racing)
Third Will Power (Team Penske)

The 2014 Honda Indy Toronto was a Canadian open wheel motor race, held as the thirteenth and fourteenth rounds of the 2014 IndyCar Series season. It was the 28th annual edition of the Toronto Indy, and the 29th and 30th IndyCar races to be held at the 1.755-mile (2.824 km) street circuit at Exhibition Place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The races were contested over 65 and 56 laps respectively.

Having successfully hosted a double-header race for the first time in 2013, IndyCar again scheduled two full points races for the Toronto weekend, with race one on Saturday and race two on Sunday.

After rain on Saturday washed out race one of the weekend double bill, IndyCar officials decided to reschedule the two races on Sunday, with race one in the morning and race two in the afternoon. The postponement created the first same-day doubleheader since the 1981 Kraco Twin 125s which were swept by Rick Mears at the Atlanta Motor Speedway.

Sébastien Bourdais scored pole position for the first race of the weekend. This was Bourdais' first pole since the 2007 Bavaria Champ Car Grand Prix, at Assen. Originally scheduled to be held on Saturday afternoon, the race was held on Sunday morning; Bourdais led 58 of the race's 65 laps to take his first victory since the 2007 Gran Premio Tecate.

Mike Conway driving for Ed Carpenter Racing won race 2, for his second win of the season after winning Long Beach and it marked the fourth IndyCar victory of his career. Rain fell once again during race 2, with Penske teammates Helio Castroneves and Will Power fighting for the lead early. Conway took advantage of a drying track and pitted on Lap 43 for dry weather tires knowing the slicks would be quicker. Conway took the lead on Lap 51, while Castroneves dropped off the pace, and holding on for the victory.


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