By Anthony Caruso III | Publisher
James Hinchcliffe won the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach in Long Beach, California. This is his first win since his near-fatal crash at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 2015.
It is his fifth career win. He joins Sebastien Bourdais as the first two winners of the 2017 IndyCar Series.
Hinch, as he is known, is the first Canadian to win this race since 2004. Paul Tracy, who was then a driver for Forsythe Racing, won back-to-back races in 2003 and 2004 at the street course.
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Hinchcliffe is the third Canadian to win the race since it was established. Tracy won the race three times overall, while Gilles Villeneuve also won in 1979.
This was Hinchcliffe’s third road course win of his career. He also won on the 2013 Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg on March 24th, 2013, in the Streets of St. Petersburg, in St. Petersburg, Florida.
He also won the 2013 Itaipava Sao Paulo Indy 300 on Sunday, May 5th, 2013, in the Streets of Sao Paulo in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
His other two wins have come at Iowa Speedway in 2013 and the 2015 Indy Grand Prix of Louisiana on Sunday, April 12th, 2015, at NOLA Motorsports Park in Avondale, Louisiana.
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Bourdais was the second-place finisher. Josef Newgarden rounded out the podium with a third-place finish.
This is Newgarden’s first podium for “The Captain” Roger Penske after switching over to the team in the offseason.
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