Indianapolis: The Fort Lauderdale, Fla based Ryan Hunter-Reay, emerged champion in the 200-lap (186.563 mph average) 2014 Indianapolis 500 Mile Race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway here today. He received a standing ovation as finished first in the 2014 Indianapolis 500 Mile Race at the 2.5 miles race track of IMS, Indiana, the World Capital of Race. He earned the distinction of becoming the first American to win the race, which kept the jamed packed spell-bound,since Sam Hornish Junior in 2006.
At the wheels of the No. 28 DHL car for Andretti Autosport, Hunter-Reay, was lap leader nine times from lap 100 to 107 in the razor-sharp race at the IMS oval track.
In hunt for the title after deprived of the final-lap victory in 2013 because of a yellow flag for a single-car incident in Turn 1 , Hunter-Reay snatched a thrilling victory from three-time Indy 500 champion Helio Castroneves by a wafer thing margin of .0600 of a second. Ryan Hunter-Reay registered a 220.927 mph final lap to Castroneves’ 220.729 mph.
Hunter-Reay’s teammate Marco Andretti finished third . Hunter has realised his dream for victory.
Indy 500 final positions:
1 Ryan Hunter-Reay 103 pts, 2 Helio Castroneves 81 pts, 3 Marco Andretti 71 pts, 4 Carlos Munoz 64 pts, 5 Juan Pablo Montoya 61 pts, 6 Kurt Busch 56 pts, 7 Sebastien Bourdais 52 pts, 8 Will Power 49 pts, 9 Sage Karam 44 pts, 10 J.R. Hildebrand 40 pts, 11 Oriol Servia 38 pts, 12 Simon Pagenaud 36 pts, 13 Alex Tagliani 35 pts, 14 Jacques Villeneuve 32 pts, 15 Sebastian Saavedra 30 pts, 16 James Davison 28 pts, 17 Carlos Huertas 26 pts, 18 Ryan Briscoe 24 pts, 19 Takuma Sato 22, 20 Jack Hawksworth 20 pts, 21 Mikhail Aleshin 19 pts, 22 Justin Wilson 16 pts, 23 Martin Plowman 14 pts, 24 Pippa Mann 12 pts, 25 Townsend Bell 10 pts, 26 Tony Kanaan 11 pts, 27 Ed Carpenter 11 pts, 28 James Hinchcliffe 11 pts, 29 Scott Dixon 11 pts, 30 Josef Newgarden 10 pts, 31 Charlie Kimball 10 pts, 32 Buddy Lazier 10 pts, 33 Graham Rahal 10 pts.
