Hey, look at that! A non-Penske or Ganassi car won a race in the Izod IndyCar Series!
Mike Conway, the driver who went flying through the air in the closing stages of the Indianapolis 500, passed Ryan Briscoe after the final restart and pulled away from the field to win the Long Beach Grand Prix Sunday.
The Indianapolis crash left Conway with a broken leg and he missed the rest of the 2010 season. He hooked up with Andretti Autosport in 2011 after the team and Tony Kanaan parted ways, but the first two races of the season for Conway weren’t very pretty.
Conway made it into the first turn of the season at St. Petersburg before getting caught up in that crazy crash and then crashed halfway through the race at Barber Motorsports Park last weekend.
His teammate, Ryan Hunter-Reay, dominated the Long Beach race last season and was once again one of the cars to beat Sunday before he had a gearbox problem while running in second place.
Helio Castroneves, the driver who locked up the brakes to cause that first lap crash at St. Petersburg, was involved in a similar incident off a restart at Long Beach. With his teammate Will Power on the outside of Hunter-Reay for second place as the field entered turn one, Castroneves drove too deeply into the corner and slid the car into Power, turning both of them around.
Mike Conway wins IndyCar Long Beach Grand Prix
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