Newgarden leads CFH Racing to Toronto one-two

Josef Newgarden scored his second win of the season by beating home CFH Racing team-mate Luca Filippi in a rain-hit Honda Indy Toronto.

The American vaulted to the front after an early stop for slicks on lap 28 fell just prior to a full course yellow.

With no more rain returning to the Canadian venue, Newgarden was able to control the race for the duration, eventually leading Filippi to the flag by 1.4s.

The result backed up success at Barber Motorsport Park in April for Newgarden and CFH, which was created following the off-season merger of Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing and Ed Carpenter Racing.

“I’m just really proud of everybody on this team,” said co-owner Sarah Fisher.

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“I’m proud of Josef, I’m proud of the 20 car guys. I never would have thought that would have happened.”

Penske team-mates Helio Castroneves and Will Power scored third and fourth respectively, with the latter closing seventh-placed finisher Juan Pablo Montoya’s championship lead down to 25 points.

Sebastien Bourdais also scored solid points in fifth, while sixth and eighth and Ganassi team-mates Tony Kanaan and Scott Dixon ensured a Chevrolet sweep of the top eight places.

Amid largely improved driving standards compared with the recent wet/dry street races in Detroit, the 85 laps saw just two full course cautions.

The incident that dramatically swung the race in Newgarden’s favour was a single-car spin for James Jakes’ Schmidt Peterson Dallara.

The race’s only retirements were Carlos Munoz, who suffered a gearbox failure while following the same strategy as Newgarden, and Stefano Coletti, who damaged his front-wing before crashing out.

Result: Honda Indy Toronto

Pos.	Car #	Driver	Manufacturer	Laps	Running / Reason Out
1	67	Josef Newgarden	Chevrolet	85	Running
2	20	Luca Filippi	Chevrolet	85	Running
3	3	Helio Castroneves	Chevrolet	85	Running
4	1	Will Power	Chevrolet	85	Running
5	11	Sebastien Bourdais	Chevrolet	85	Running
6	10	Tony Kanaan	Chevrolet	85	Running
7	2	Juan Pablo Montoya	Chevrolet	85	Running
8	9	Scott Dixon	Chevrolet	85	Running
9	15	Graham Rahal	Honda	85	Running
10	14	Takuma Sato	Honda	85	Running
11	22	Simon Pagenaud	Chevrolet	85	Running
12	5	Conor Daly (R)	Honda	85	Running
13	27	Marco Andretti	Honda	85	Running
14	41	Jack Hawksworth	Honda	85	Running
15	98	Gabby Chaves (R)	Honda	85	Running
16	8	Sebastian Saavedra	Chevrolet	85	Running
17	19	Tristan Vautier	Honda	85	Running
18	18	Rodolfo Gonzalez (R)	Honda	85	Running
19	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Honda	84	Running
20	83	Charlie Kimball	Chevrolet	84	Running
21	7	James Jakes	Honda	84	Running
22	26	Carlos Munoz	Honda	69	Mechanical
23	4	Stefano Coletti (R)	Chevrolet	40	Contact