Crossing the finish line behind teammate James Hinchcliffe, reigning series champion Ryan Hunter-Reay made his fifth visit to the podium this year. Seen as low as 21st after an incident, the Florida resident managed to make his way back up through the field to finish second. Hunter-Reay remains second in the championship points standings, less than 10 points from the leader.
“It was so hard to catch back up to James (Hinchcliffe) and then lapped traffic. It’s one thing if you’re a lap down, but if you’re five laps down or six laps down, just making it tough on the leaders was uncalled for. But hey, we came back from 22nd or whatever we were to finish second. Definitely had the car to win today but just made a mistake there trying to get by Graham (Rahal), keeping my foot in it. The front just had no grip on it when I turned to pop out and pass him. Easy mistake. We had a tough weekend… to come second out of this thing, I’m pretty pleased with that. Good job to James (Hinchcliffe). It was a good day in the points for the No. 1 DHL Chevy – definitely have to be happy about that.”
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