James Hinchcliffe dominated the remaining 177 laps of the interrupted Firestone 600, but in a fraught three-way battle for honors over the closing laps, it was Graham Rahal who landed his first victory of the season. Restarting the 2.5-month-old Firestone 600 from Lap 72, Andretti Autosport’s Hunter-Reay took the lead after a lap, with Team Penske’s Will Power in second, chased by the two Schmidt Peterson Motorsports-Hondas of Hinchcliffe and Mikhail Aleshin, but soon Ed Carpenter slotted into fourth, with Hinchcliffe then passing Power for second. Behind came Helio Castroneves, Graham Rahal and a stunningly aggressive Tony Kanaan – up from 16th to seventh within just two laps!...
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