Simon Pagenaud drove a masterful race to conquer the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course and take a 76-point lead in the 2016 Verizon IndyCar Series championship. The Frenchman’s Team Penske-Chevrolet won by 4.478sec over teammate Helio Castroneves who held off James Hinchcliffe’s Schmidt Peterson Motorsport-Honda to cross the line just 0.6sec ahead. The star of the race was Graham Rahal who charged from 24th on the grid to finish fourth in the Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing-Honda while smart strategy and unnecessary full-course yellow allowed Conor Daly’s Dale Coyne Racing-Honda a spell at the front. He would ultimately finish sixth, less than five seconds behind the...
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