By Anthony Caruso III | Publisher
Tony Kanaan has won the MAVTV 500 at Auto Club Speedway to close out the IndyCar season. This is Kanaan’s first win since winning the prestigious Indianapolis 500 last year.
Kanaan, who took over this year for his close friend Dario Franchitti, won by 3.6750 seconds over second-place finisher Scott Dixon. Following the win, Kanaan dedicated the win to Franchitti, who suffered a career-ending injury in a crash last year, and the late Dan Wheldon.
Franchitti’s crash and retirement allowed Kanaan to step into his seat this season.
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This is Kanaan’s 16th win in his career dating back to the 2003 season. This was the first time that Kanaan won a race at Auto Club Speedway.
It was also his second career win in the State of California. In 2005, he won the Argent Mortgage Indy Grand Prix on Sunday, August 28th, 2005, at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California.
While this was his first win in the No. 10 Target car, all of his previous wins came in the No. 11 car. He won 13 races in the No. 11 car with Team 7-Eleven with Andretti Green Racing.
He also won a race in Iowa in 2010 with 7-Eleven with Andretti Autosport. In 2013, he won at Indianapolis with Hydroxycut for KV Racing Technology.
Ed Carpenter finished in third place in his final start in the Ed Carpenter Racing No. 20 Fuzzy Vodka car. Earlier this month, Ed Carpenter Racing and Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing merged into a two-car operation called CFH Racing.
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Juan Pablo Montoya added a fourth-place finish in this race. Montoya returned to IndyCar this season following years in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.
James Hinchcliffe, who spun out earlier in the race, rounded out the Top 5. Hinch, as he is commonly known, was the lone Honda car in the Top 5 with the other four cars driven by Chevrolet.
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