IndyCar’s 2019 Honda Indy Toronto – facts and figures
The essential statistics ahead of the 11th round of the 2019 NTT IndyCar Series – the Honda Indy Toronto.
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Track: 1.786-mile street course in downtown Toronto, ON, Canada
Race distance: 85 laps / 151.81 miles
Push-to-pass parameters: 200 seconds with a maximum single duration of 20sec
Firestone tires per entry: Seven sets primaries, four sets of alternates, five sets of rain tires. Teams must use one set of primary and one set of alternate tires for at least two laps in the race. The alternate tires will be the same as used in Detroit, while the primaries are the same as last year in Toronto.
2018 race winner: Scott Dixon (Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda).
Of this weekend’s starters, Dixon and Will Power have each won in Toronto three times, Josef Newgarden and Sebastien Bourdais have won twice and Ryan Hunter-Reay has won once. The man who dominates the raceday stats is Michael Andretti (pictured above) who won here seven times.
2018 pole winner: Josef Newgarden (Team Penske), 59.4956sec, 108.068mph.
Of the active drivers, Will Power, Scott Dixon and Sebastien Bourdais each have two poles here. The record number of Toronto poles is five, held by Dario Franchitti.
Qualifying lap record: Gil de Ferran (Walker Racing Reynard-Honda), 57.143sec, 110.565mph (1999). For current layout, Simon Pagenaud (Team Penske Dallara-Chevrolet) 58.9124sec, 109.138mph (2017).
Previous winners
Mosport
1967 (x2) Bobby Unser, Leader Card Racing, Eagle-Ford
1968 (x2) Dan Gurney, Oscar Olson, Eagle Weslake-Ford
1977 AJ Foyt, AJ Foyt Enterprises, Coyote-Foyt
1978 Danny Ongais, Interscope Racing, Parnelli-Cosworth
Toronto street course
1986 Bobby Rahal, Truesports, March-Cosworth
1987 Emerson Fittipaldi, Patrick Racing, March-Chevrolet
1988 Al Unser Jr., Galles Racing, March-Chevrolet
1989 Michael Andretti, Newman/Haas Racing, Lola-Chevrolet
1990 Al Unser Jr., Galles/Kraco Racing, Lola-Chevrolet
1991 Michael Andretti, Newman/Haas Racing, Lola-Chevrolet
1992 Michael Andretti, Newman/Haas Racing, Lola-Ford
1993 Paul Tracy, Penske Racing, Penske-Chevrolet
1994 Michael Andretti, Chip Ganassi Racing, Reynard-Ford
1995 Michael Andretti, Newman/Haas Racing, Lola-Ford
1996 Adrian Fernandez, Tasman Motorsports, Lola-Honda
1997 Mark Blundell, PacWest Racing, Reynard-Mercedes-Benz
1998 Alex Zanardi, Chip Ganassi Racing, Reynard-Honda
1999 Dario Franchitti, Team Green, Reynard-Honda
2000 Michael Andretti, Newman/Haas Racing, Lola-Ford
2001 Michael Andretti, Team Green, Reynard-Honda
2002 Cristiano da Matta, Newman/Haas Racing, Lola-Toyota
2003 Paul Tracy, Forsythe Racing, Lola-Ford
2004 Sebastien Bourdais, Newman/Haas Racing, Lola-Ford
2005 Justin Wilson, RuSPORT, Lola-Ford
2006 AJ Allmendinger, Forsythe Racing, Lola-Ford
2007 Will Power, Walker Racing, Panoz-Cosworth
2009 Dario Franchitti, Chip Ganassi Racing, Dallara-Honda
2010 Will Power, Team Penske, Dallara-Honda
2011 Dario Franchitti, Chip Ganassi Racing, Dallara-Honda
2012 Ryan Hunter-Reay, Andretti Autosport, Dallara-Chevrolet
2013 Scott Dixon, Chip Ganassi Racing, Dallara-Honda
2013 Scott Dixon, Chip Ganassi Racing, Dallara-Honda
2014 Sebastien Bourdais, KV Racing Technology, Dallara-Chevrolet
2014 Mike Conway, Ed Carpenter Racing, Dallara-Chevrolet
2015 Josef Newgarden, CFH Racing, Dallara-Chevrolet
2016 Will Power, Team Penske, Dallara-Chevrolet
2017 Josef Newgarden, Team Penske, Dallara-Chevrolet
2018 Scott Dixon, Chip Ganassi Racing, Dallara-Honda
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