The 2013 Iowa Corn Indy 250 Presented by DEKALB, the seventh annual running of the event, was an

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race held on June 23, 2013 at

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. The race was the tenth round of the 2013 IndyCar Series season, and was won by

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Report

Background

is the shortest track on the IndyCar schedule, being .875 miles long. Four of the first nine races in the season were dominated by

drivers

and

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, each winning two races. The defending race winner was Hunter-Reay.

Qualifying

Hélio Castroneves Hélio Castroneves (; born Hélio Alves de Castro Neves; 10 May 1975) is a Brazilian auto racing driver. He competes part-time in the IndyCar Series, driving the No. 06 Dallara-Honda for Meyer Shank Racing. He is one of four drivers to have w ...

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set the one-lap track record in qualifying with a time of 17.3324 seconds and a speed of , breaking the record set in

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. Castroneves also won the

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after winning the qualifying heat race, but IndyCar officials ruled that Castroneves and his team had an improper engine change, changing engines before it ran the minimum 2,000 miles (3,218 km). Because of this, Penske teammate

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was given the pole, with

in second,

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in third and Ed Carpenter in fourth, taking

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's spot, who was also penalized for improperly changing engines. Defending race winner

failed to advance out of the preliminary heat. The starting grid for the race was decided by three 50-lap heat races. Dixon won the first race,

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won heat 2, and Castroneves won the final heat.

Race

On lap one,

passed pole-sitter

for the lead, and proceeded to dominate the race, leading all but 24 laps, a track-record 226 laps; he had led only 33 laps on ovals prior to the race. Hinchcliffe's teammate

fell behind with early right front car damage early in the race, and was in 21st, but was able to reach second, but was slowed by lapped cars. Hinchcliffe beat Hunter-Reay to the finish by 1.5009 seconds, giving

its second consecutive 1-2 finish at the track, and the team's fifth win at the track. The win was Hinchcliffe's third of the season, making him the first three-race winner of the season, and was also his first on an oval.

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finished third, Ed Carpenter and

finished fourth and fifth, respectively.

Simon Pagenaud Simon Pierre Michel Pagenaud (; born 18 May 1984) is a French professional racing driver, who last drove the No. 60 Honda for Meyer Shank Racing in the NTT IndyCar Series. After a successful career in sports car racing that saw him taking the ...

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, and E. J. Viso closed out the top ten.

Race results

;Notes: Points include 1 point for leading at least 1 lap during a race, an additional 2 points for leading the most race laps, and 1 point for Pole Position.

References

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Iowa Corn Indy 250 American open wheel races under IndyCar Series sanctioning has been held at Iowa Speedway since 2007, except in 2021. From 2007 to 2013, it was a 250-lap (218.75 miles) race; beginning in 2014, the race was increased to 300 laps (262.5 miles). In ...