2011 Honda Indy Toronto

March 2026 February 2025 CAN Honda Indy Toronto Toronto, Ontario street circuit track map.svg July 10 2011 Honda Indy Toronto 9th IndyCar Series Streets of Toronto Temporary street circuit 1.755 2.824 85 149.175 240.074 Temperatures reaching up to 30 C F; with temperatures dropping slightly to 24.8 C F by the end of the eventhttp://www.almanac.com/weather/history/ON/Toronto/2011-07-10 2011 Honda Indy Toronto weather information Old Farmers' Almanac 2015-01-25 Will Power Team Penske 59.5771 AUS Justin Wilson Dreyer & Reinbold Racing 1:00.6386 83 GBR Dario Franchitti Chip Ganassi Racing GBR Scott Dixon Chip Ganassi Racing NZL Ryan Hunter-Reay Andretti Autosport USA The 2011 Honda Indy Toronto was the ninth round of the 2011 IndyCar Series season and took place on July 10, 2011, at the 1.755 mi km on Exhibition Place temporary street circuit in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Dario Franchitti won the race, second was his teammate Scott Dixon, and Ryan Hunter-Reay came in third. Will Power took the 3 bonus points for winning pole and leading the most laps, but finished 24th after contact with championship rival Franchitti and Alex Tagliani. Classification Qualifying All cars were split into two groups of twelve, with the fastest six from each group going through to the "top 12" session. In this session, the fastest six cars progressed to the "Firestone Fast Six." The fastest driver in the final session claimed pole, with the rest of the cars lining up in session order, regardless of qualifying times. (fast six from 1–6, top 12 from 7–12 and round 1 from 13 to 24, with group 1 drivers occupying the odd-numbered grid positions, and group 2 drivers occupying the even-numbered grid positions. Pos No. Driver Team Group 1http://www.indycar.com:8080/var/assets/indycar-results-quals-r1g114.pdf Honda Indy Toronto: Qualifying, Round 1 – Group 1 INDYCAR January 12, 2012 July 9, 2011 August 2019 InternetArchiveBot yes Group 2http://www.indycar.com:8080/var/assets/indycar-results-quals-r1g213.pdf Honda Indy Toronto: Qualifying, Round 1 – Group 2 INDYCAR January 12, 2012 July 9, 2011 August 2019 InternetArchiveBot yes Top 12http://www.indycar.com:8080/var/assets/indycar-results-quals-r213.pdf Honda Indy Toronto: Qualifying – Top 12 INDYCAR January 12, 2012 July 9, 2011 August 2019 InternetArchiveBot yes Fast 6http://www.indycar.com:8080/var/assets/indycar-results-quals-r315.pdf Honda Indy Toronto: Qualifying – Fast 6 INDYCAR January 12, 2012 July 9, 2011 August 2019 InternetArchiveBot yes 1 12 AUS Will Power Team Penske 59.3535 59.4191 59.5771 2 9 NZL Scott Dixon Chip Ganassi Racing 59.3859 59.3779 59.6646 3 10 GBR Dario Franchitti Chip Ganassi Racing 59.6454 59.5997 59.9000 4 27 GBR Mike Conway Andretti Autosport 59.6286 59.4130 59.9326 5 38 USA Graham Rahal Chip Ganassi Racing 59.7652 59.6519 1:00.0463 6 2 ESP Oriol Servià Newman/Haas Racing 59.8327 59.6704 1:00.3341 7 19 FRA Sébastien Bourdais Dale Coyne Racing 59.8988 59.8239 8 28 USA Ryan Hunter-Reay Andretti Autosport 59.4830 59.8715 9 77 CAN Alex Tagliani Sam Schmidt Motorsports 59.8096 59.8901 10 6 AUS Ryan Briscoe Team Penske 59.5159 59.9020 11 22 GBR Justin Wilson Dreyer & Reinbold Racing 59.5196 59.9636 12 3 BRA Hélio Castroneves Team Penske 59.7769 1:00.0115 13 06 CAN James Hinchcliffe Newman/Haas Racing 59.8346 14 14 BRA Vítor Meira A. J. Foyt Enterprises 59.9869 15 34 COL Sebastián Saavedra (R) Conquest Racing 59.9389 16 82 BRA Tony Kanaan KV Racing Technology – Lotus 1:00.0149 17 78 SUI Simona de Silvestro HVM Racing 1:00.0806 18 59 VEN E. J. Viso KV Racing Technology – Lotus 1:00.1191 19 5 JPN Takuma Sato KV Racing Technology – Lotus 1:00.1003 20 26 USA Marco Andretti Andretti Autosport 1:00.1542 21 7 USA Danica Patrick Andretti Autosport 1:00.3438 22 4 USA J. R. Hildebrand (R) Panther Racing 1:00.4472 23 18 GBR James Jakes (R) Dale Coyne Racing 1:00.6226 24 8 CAN Paul Tracy Dragon Racing 1:00.4524 25 83 USA Charlie Kimball (R) Chip Ganassi Racing 1:00.6463 26 24 BRA Ana Beatriz (R) Dreyer & Reinbold Racing 1:00.7917 Race Pos No. Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Laps Led Points 1 10 GBR Dario Franchitti Chip Ganassi Racing 85 1:56:32.1501 3 30 50 2 9 NZL Scott Dixon Chip Ganassi Racing 85 + 0.7345 2 0 40 3 28 USA Ryan Hunter-Reay Andretti Autosport 85 + 6.0144 8 0 35 4 26 USA Marco Andretti Andretti Autosport 85 + 7.5671 20 0 32 5 14 BRA Vítor Meira A. J. Foyt Enterprises 85 + 9.0117 14 0 30 6 19 FRA Sébastien Bourdais Dale Coyne Racing 85 + 9.3114 7 0 28 7 6 AUS Ryan Briscoe Team Penske 85 + 9.8735 10 0 26 8 4 USA J. R. Hildebrand (R) Panther Racing 85 + 14.1750 22 0 24 9 59 VEN E. J. Viso KV Racing Technology – Lotus 85 + 14.7843 18 0 22 10 78 SUI Simona de Silvestro HVM Racing 85 + 15.7603 17 0 20 11 24 BRA Ana Beatriz (R) Dreyer & Reinbold Racing 85 + 16.8992 26 0 19 12 2 ESP Oriol Servià Newman/Haas Racing 85 + 19.8736 6 0 18 13 38 USA Graham Rahal Chip Ganassi Racing 85 + 21.3123 5 23 17 14 06 CAN James Hinchcliffe (R) Newman/Haas Racing 84 + 1 lap 13 0 16 15 22 GBR Justin Wilson Dreyer & Reinbold Racing 83 + 2 laps 11 0 15 16 8 CAN Paul Tracy Dragon Racing 82 + 3 laps 24 0 14 17 3 BRA Hélio Castroneves Team Penske 81 + 4 Laps 12 0 13 18 18 GBR James Jakes (R) Dale Coyne Racing 81 + 4 Laps 23 0 12 19 7 USA Danica Patrick Andretti Autosport 79 + 6 laps 21 0 12 20 5 JPN Takuma Sato KV Racing Technology – Lotus 79 + 6 laps 19 0 12 21 83 USA Charlie Kimball (R) Chip Ganassi Racing 77 Contact 25 0 12 22 27 GBR Mike Conway Andretti Autosport 76 Contact 4 0 12 23 77 CAN Alex Tagliani Sam Schmidt Motorsports 71 Contact 9 0 12 24 12 AUS Will Power Team Penske 66 Contact 1 32 15 25 34 COL Sebastián Saavedra (R) Conquest Racing 43 Contact 15 0 10 26 82 BRA Tony Kanaan KV Racing Technology – Lotus 2 Contact 16 0 10 Honda Indy Toronto: Unofficial Lap Report http://www.indycar.com:8080/var/assets/indycar-race-lapfinal33.pdf INDYCAR January 12, 2012 July 10, 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110813023216/http://www.indycar.com:8080/var/assets/indycar-race-lapfinal33.pdf August 13, 2011 dead Race summary Early in the race controversy brewed on lap 57 when Dario Franchitti appeared to have intentionally collided into championship contender Will Power. Power spun out and was later hit by Alex Tagliani. Power wrecked enough that he was taken out of the race. In an interview Power called Franchitti "a dirty driver who mouths off about everybody." and was also critical of Tagliani calling him a "wanker." https://www.espn.com/racing/racing/indycar/news/story?id=6755118 Dario Franchitti survives to win third Honda IndyCar Toronto 10 July 2011 https://www.espn.com/racing/racing/indycar/columns/story?id=6754611 Dario Franchitti's Honda Indy Toronto win has Will Power fuming 10 July 2011http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2011/07/dario_franchitti_wins_wild_wre.html Dario Franchitti wins wild, wreck-filled IndyCar race at Toronto 11 July 2011 A few moments following the wreck, the broadcasters announced that Franchitti was being issued a stop-and-go penalty for dirty driving & avoidable contact. However, it was later reported that the penalty was rescinded, outraging many fellow competitors and fans. Meanwhile, Alex Tagliani was launched into the air and out of the race by Danica Patrick on the 72nd lap, while a close battle between Toronto natives James Hinchcliffe and Paul Tracy resulted in a flat tire for Hinchcliffe and a damaged front wing for Tracy. Tracy's hopes for a hometown victory were wiped out after he bumped into Meira on the 45th lap, dropping the 42-year-old fan favorite three laps out of the pack to a 16th-place finish. James Hinchcliffe, meanwhile, finished 14th after being involved in a five-car collision when Andretti turned into Oriol Servia, resulting in a pileup that banged up Hinchcliffe, Servia and Charlie Kimball, and ended Mike Conway's day. Patrick started 21st and was a nonfactor after a collision with Japan's Takuma Sato punctured one of her tires. She finished 19th, but could at least say she crossed the finish line. Brazil's Tony Kanaan wasn't so fortunate nor was he a contender to win. He made an early exit after Australia's Ryan Briscoe clipped his back wheel rounding a corner, sending the Brazilian airborne into the wall just three laps after the start. Kanaan pointed at his head and yelled at Briscoe from the side of road as the Australian passed by his wrecked car. Franchitti, meanwhile, dominated the race following the penalty's rescinding and took the lead from Graham Rahal with 15 laps to go and went on to win the controversial race. Fans booed and littered as Franchitti did donuts and drove into victory circle. When asked if there was a penalty that was rescinded, former race-car driver - now - race control director Al Unser Jr. said "There was never a penalty for the collision. There was never a penalized issue. We saw it as a simple racing accident...guys going for the same thing with one on the good end and one on the bad end, and emotions run high." "I think it was a racing incident at best," Franchitti said in victory lane. "I don't think I'm known throughout the paddock as a driver who races people dirty. I will say, in his defense, had that happened to me today, I would have been steamed when I got out of the car too. Particularly if I'd crashed later in the race. ... I understand his anger, but hopefully when he watches the replay on television he'll realize it was a racing incident." References Category:Grand Prix of Toronto Honda Indy Toronto Honda Indy Toronto Honda Indy Toronto Honda Indy Toronto