Honda Racing Report
Saturday, June 13, 2015
Honda Indy Toronto
Circuit: Exhibition Place (1.755-mile temporary street circuit), Toronto, Ont., Canada
2014 Winners: Race 1 Sebastien Bourdais (KVSH Racing) 90.370 mph average
Race 2 Mike Conway [Ed Carpenter Racing] 73.168 mph average [rain]
Weather: Sunny, warm, 81 degrees F

Top 12 Qualifying Results:
Ps.
Driver
Team
Manufacturer
Best Time
Notes
1.
Will Power
Team Penske
Chevrolet
59.4280
106.314 mph average
2.
Simon Pagenaud
Team Penske
Chevrolet
59.6095
+0.1815 seconds
3.
Juan Pablo Montoya
Team Penske
Chevrolet
59.6242
Fast Six Shootout
4.
Scott Dixon
Chip Ganassi Racing
Chevrolet
59.8879
Fast Six Shootout
5.
Sebastien Bourdais
KV Racing Technology
Chevrolet
59.9012
Fast Six Shootout
6.
Luca Filippi
Carpenter Fisher Hartman
Chevrolet
1:00.2312
Fast Six Shootout
7.
Helio Castroneves
Team Penske
Chevrolet
59.8940
Second round
8.
Takuma Sato
A.J. Foyt Racing
Honda
59.9500
Second round
9.
Tony Kanaan
Chip Ganassi Racing
Chevrolet
1:00.0901
Second round
10.
Graham Rahal
Rahal Letterman Lanigan
Honda
1:00.1214
Second round
11.
Josef Newgarden
Carpenter Fisher Hartman
Chevrolet
1:00.1323
Second round
12.
James Jakes
Schmidt Peterson Motorsports
Honda
1:00.4576
Second round
Other Honda-powered Results:
13.
Carlos Munoz
Andretti Autosport
Honda
1:00.6849
First round, Group 1
14.
Jack Hawksworth
A.J. Foyt Racing
Honda
1:01.4569
First round, Group 2
16.
Ryan Hunter-Reay
Andretti Autosport
Honda
1:01.5959
First round, Group 2
18.
Marco Andretti
Andretti Autosport
Honda
1:01.9907
First round, Group 2
19.
Conor Daly-R
Schmidt Peterson Motorsports
Honda
1:01.2543
First round, Group 1
21.
Tristan Vautier
Dale Coyne Racing
Honda
1:01.5065
First round, Group 1
22.
Gabby Chaves-R
Bryan Herta Autosport
Honda
1:02.4016
First round, Group 2
23.
Rodolfo Gonzalez-R
Dale Coyne Racing
Honda
1:05.0167
First round, Group 2

Sato Leads Honda Qualifiers in Toronto
Sato to start Honda Indy Toronto from eighth on the grid
Graham Rahal, James Jakes also advance to second-round qualifying

Takuma Sato produced his third top-10 qualifying effort of the 2015 Verizon IndyCar Series season, and will start Sunday’s Honda Indy Toronto from eighth in his A.J. Foyt Racing Honda. Sato missed advancing to the “Fast Six” final round qualifying by only five-hundredths of a second, after making it to the last qualifying round in two of the four previous temporary street circuit events this season.

After leading the Honda field in Friday’s practice sessions, Graham Rahal also advanced to the second round, and will start 10th in his Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Honda, with Schmidt Peterson Motorsports’ James Jakes equaling his season-best 12th-place qualifying effort in Texas last week with an identical starting position for tomorrow’s 85-lap contest.

The 10th round of the Verizon IndyCar Series season start at 3 p.m. EDT Sunday, with live television coverage on the NBC Sports Network.

Takuma Sato (#14 Rahal A.J. Foyt Racing Honda):  “We were very close to advancing [to the Fast Six Shootout], I think we were just five-one hundredths short, or close to it. But that’s racing. This is a tricky, very bumpy track, with a lot of surface changes. Even after they ground [the surface], it’s still rough. But that makes for an exciting race, and this race gets such fantastic support from Honda and all of the Canadian race fans. I hope to be able to give them something to celebrate tomorrow.”