2013 Firestone 550
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{{American Championship Car race report infobox
|Country = USA
|Race = Firestone 550
|Image = TexasMotorSpeedway.svg
|Date = June 8
|Year = 2013
|Official name = Firestone 550
|Round_No = 8th
|Series = IndyCar Series
|Location = Texas Motor Speedway
|Course = Permanent racing facility
|Course_mi = 1.5
|Course_km = 2.4
|Distance_laps = 228
|Distance_mi = 342
|Distance_km = 550
|Weather = Temperatures reaching up to {{convert|90|F|C}}; wind speeds up to {{convert|14|mph|km/h}}{{cite web|title=Weather information for the 2013 Firestone 550|url=http://m.almanac.com/weather/history/TX/Fort%20Worth/2013-06-08|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150125233334/http://m.almanac.com/weather/history/TX/Fort%20Worth/2013-06-08|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 25, 2015|publisher=The Old Farmers' Almanac|accessdate=January 25, 2015}}
|Pole_Driver = Will Power
|Pole_Team = Team Penske
|Pole_Time = 0:47.7960
|Pole_Country = AUS
|Fast_Driver = Tony Kanaan
|Fast_Team = KV Racing Technology
|Fast_Time = 24.2769
|Fast_Lap = 51
|Fast_Country = BRA
|First_Driver = Hélio Castroneves
|First_Team = Team Penske
|First_Country = BRA
|Second_Driver = Ryan Hunter-Reay
|Second_Team = Andretti Autosport
|Second_Country = USA
|Third_Driver = Tony Kanaan
|Third_Team = KV Racing Technology
|Third_Country = BRA
}}
The 2013 Firestone 550 was twenty-third running of the Firestone 550 and the eighth round of the 2013 IndyCar Series season. It took place on Saturday, June 8. The race was contested over 228 laps at the {{convert|1.5|mi|km|adj=on}} Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas, and was televised by ABC in the United States.
Report
=Background=
Before coming to Texas Motor Speedway, IndyCar completed the first doubleheader of the season at Belle Isle in the Chevrolet Indy Dual in Detroit, where Mike Conway earned his first victory of the season in the first race, while Simon Pagenaud won his first IndyCar series race in the second part of the doubleheader. Entering the Firestone 550, both Marco Andretti and Hélio Castroneves were tied atop the IndyCar drivers point championship, each with 206 point, though both did not have any victories on the season. Justin Wilson entered the race as the defending champion having won the previous year's race.
=Report=
Classification
=Starting grid=
| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;"
! width="25" |Row !colspan=2 width="200" |Inside !colspan=2 width="200" |Outside |
| 1
|style="background:black; color:white;" align="center" width="25"|12 |width="175"| {{flagicon|AUS}} Will Power |style="background:midnightblue; color:white;" align="center" width="25"|25 |width="175"| {{flagicon|USA}} Marco Andretti |
|---|
| 2
| style="background:yellow; color:red;" align="center" width="25"|1 |width="175"| {{flagicon|USA}} Ryan Hunter-Reay |style="background:black; color:lawngreen;" align="center" width="25"|10 |width="175"| {{flagicon|GBR}} Dario Franchitti |
| 3
| style="background:red; color:white;" align="center" width="25"|5 |width="175"| {{flagicon|VEN}} E. J. Viso | style="background:royalblue; color:white;" align=center width="25"|3 |width="175"| {{flagicon|BRA}} Hélio Castroneves |
| 4
| style="background:#0066CC; color:white;" align="center" width="25"| 67 |width="175"| {{flagicon|USA}} Josef Newgarden | style="background:#330099; color:white;" align="center" width="25"|83 |width="175"| {{flagicon|USA}} Charlie Kimball |
| 5
| style="background:darkgreen; color:white;" align="center" width="25"| 20 |width="175"| {{flagicon|USA}} Ed Carpenter | style="background:#660000; color:white;" align="center" width="25"| 16 |width="175"| {{flagicon|GBR}} James Jakes |
| 6
| style="background:#CC0000; color:white;" align="center" width="25"|9 |width="175"| {{flagicon|NZL}} Scott Dixon | style="background:lawngreen; color:coral;" align=center width="25"| 27 |width="175"| {{flagicon|CAN}} James Hinchcliffe |
| 7
| style="background:yellow; color:white;" align="center" width="25"|11 |width="175"| {{flagicon|BRA}} Tony Kanaan | style="background:deepskyblue; color:white;" align="center"| 98 |width="175"| {{flagicon|CAN}} Alex Tagliani |
| 8
| style="background:gainsboro; color:crimson;" align="center" width="25"|7 |width="175"| {{flagicon|FRA}} Sébastien Bourdais |style="background:black; color:white;" align="center" width="25"|4 |width="175"| {{flagicon|ESP}} Oriol Servia |
| 9
| style="background:yellow; color:black;" align="center" width="25"|15 |width="175"| {{flagicon|USA}} Graham Rahal |style="background:white; color:#003399;" align="center" width="25"|6 |width="175"| {{flagicon|COL}} Sebastián Saavedra |
| 10
| style="background:firebrick; color:white;" align="center" width="25"|18 |width="175"| {{flagicon|GBR}} Pippa Mann |style="background:red; color:white;" align="center" width="25"|19 |width="175"| {{flagicon|GBR}} Justin Wilson |
| 11
| style="background:white; color:red;" align="center" width="25"| 14 |width="175"| {{flagicon|JPN}} Takuma Sato | style="background:white; color:limegreen;" align="center" width="25"| 78 |width="175"| {{flagicon|SWI}} Simona de Silvestro † |
| 12
| style="background:white; color:deepskyblue;" align="center"| 77 |width="175"| {{flagicon|FRA}} Simon Pagenaud † | style="background:mediumblue; color:white;" align="center"| 55 |width="175"| {{flagicon|FRA}} Tristan Vautier (R) † |
| colspan=5|{{center|{{small|† de Silvestro, Pagenaud and Vautier penalised 10 places for changing engine}}}} |
|work=IndyCar.com|date=June 7, 2013|accessdate=June 8, 2013}}
=Race results=
| class="wikitable" "style=font-size=95%"
!| Pos !| No. !| Driver !| Team !| Engine !| Laps !| Time/Retired !| Pit Stops !| Grid !| Laps Led !| Points{{ref|race1|1}} |
| align="center"|1
|style="background:red; color:white;" align="center"|3 | {{flagicon|BRA}} Hélio Castroneves | align="center"|228 | align="center"|1:52:17.4594 | align="center"|3 | align="center"|6 | align="center"|132 | align="center"|53 |
| align="center"|2
| style="background:yellow; color:red;" align="center"|1 | {{flagicon|USA}} Ryan Hunter-Reay | align="center"|228 | align="center"|+ 4.6919 | align="center"|4 | align="center"|3 | align="center"|35 | align="center"|41 |
| align="center"|3
| style="background:indigo; color:white;" align="center"|11 | {{flagicon|BRA}} Tony Kanaan | align="center"|228 | align="center"|+ 11.6088 | align="center"|4 | align="center"|13 | align="center"| | align="center"|35 |
| align="center"|4
| style="background:#C5B358; color:white;" align="center"|20 | {{flagicon|USA}} Ed Carpenter | align="center"|228 | align="center"|+ 17.6930 | align="center"|4 | align="center"|9 | align="center"| | align="center"|32 |
| align="center"|5
| style="background:midnightblue; color:white;" align="center"|25 | {{flagicon|USA}} Marco Andretti | align="center"|228 | align="center"|+ 19.5078 | align="center"|4 | align="center"|2 | align="center"|57 | align="center"|31 |
| align="center"|6
| style="background:black; color:lawngreen;" align="center"|10 | {{flagicon|GBR}} Dario Franchitti | Honda | align="center"|227 | align="center"|+ 1 lap | align="center"|3 | align="center"|4 | align="center"| | align="center"|28 |
| align="center"|7
| style="background:black; color:white;" align="center"|12 | {{flagicon|AUS}} Will Power | align="center"|227 | align="center"|+ 1 lap | align="center"|3 | align="center"|1 | align="center"|4 | align="center"|28 |
| align="center"|8
| style="background:#0066CC; color:white;" align="center"|67 | {{flagicon|USA}} Josef Newgarden | Honda | align="center"|227 | align="center"|+ 1 lap | align="center"|4 | align="center"|7 | align="center"| | align="center"|24 |
| align="center"|9
| style="background:lawngreen; color:coral;" align="center"|27 | {{flagicon|CAN}} James Hinchcliffe | align="center"|227 | align="center"|+ 1 lap | align="center"|4 | align="center"|12 | align="center"| | align="center"|22 |
| align="center"|10
| style="background:darkblue; color:white;" align="center"|5 | {{flagicon|VEN}} E. J. Viso | align="center"|227 | align="center"|+ 1 lap | align="center"|4 | align="center"|5 | align="center"| | align="center"|20 |
| align="center"|11
| style="background:white; color:red;" align="center"|14 | {{flagicon|JPN}} Takuma Sato | Honda | align="center"|227 | align="center"|+ 1 lap | align="center"|4 | align="center"|21 | align="center"| | align="center"|19 |
| align="center"|12
| style="background:#660000; color:white;" align="center"|16 | {{flagicon|GBR}} James Jakes | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing | Honda | align="center"|227 | align="center"|+ 1 lap | align="center"|4 | align="center"|10 | align="center"| | align="center"|18 |
| align="center"|13
| style="background:deepskyblue; color:white;" align="center"|77 | {{flagicon|FRA}} Simon Pagenaud | Schmidt Hamilton Motorsports | Honda | align="center"|226 | align="center"|+ 2 laps | align="center"|5 | align="center"|23 | align="center"| | align="center"|17 |
| align="center"|14
| style="background:white; color:#003399;" align="center"|6 | {{flagicon|COL}} Sebastián Saavedra | align="center"|226 | align="center"|+ 2 laps | align="center"|5 | align="center"|18 | align="center"| | align="center"|16 |
| align="center"|15
| style="background:red; color:white;" align="center"|19 | {{flagicon|GBR}} Justin Wilson | Honda | align="center"|226 | align="center"|+ 2 laps | align="center"|3 | align="center"|20 | align="center"| | align="center"|15 |
| align="center"|16
| style="background:white; color:limegreen;" align="center" width="25"| 78 |width="175"| {{flagicon|SWI}} Simona de Silvestro | align="center"|226 | align="center"|+ 2 laps | align="center"|4 | align="center"|22 | align="center"| | align="center"|14 |
| align="center"|17
| style="background:#330099; color:white;" align="center"|83 | {{flagicon|USA}} Charlie Kimball | Honda | align="center"|226 | align="center"|+ 2 laps | align="center"|4 | align="center"|8 | align="center"| | align="center"|13 |
| align="center"|18
| style="background:darkorange; color:white;" align="center"|55 | {{flagicon|FRA}} Tristan Vautier | Schmidt Peterson Motorsports | Honda | align="center"|225 | align="center"|+ 3 laps | align="center"|3 | align="center"|24 | align="center"| | align="center"|12 |
| align="center"|19
|style="background:black; color:white;" align="center"|4 | {{flagicon|ESP}} Oriol Servià |align=center| 225 |align=center| + 3 laps |align=center| 4 |align=center| 16 |align=center| |align=center| 11 |
| align="center"|20
| style="background:black; color:silver;" align="center"|7 | {{flagicon|FRA}} Sebastian Bourdais | align="center"|224 | align="center"|+ 4 laps | align="center"|5 | align="center"|15 | align="center"| | align="center"|10 |
| align="center"|21
| style="background:yellow; color:black;" align="center"|15 | {{flagicon|USA}} Graham Rahal | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing | Honda | align="center"|223 | align="center"|+ 5 laps | align="center"|6 | align="center"|23 | align="center"| | align="center"|9 |
| align="center"|22
| style="background:deepskyblue; color:white;" align="center"|98 | {{flagicon|CAN}} Alex Tagliani | Honda | align="center"|223 | align="center"|+ 5 laps | align="center"|6 | align="center"|14 | align="center"| | align="center"|8 |
| align="center"|23
| style="background:white; color:#CC0000;" align="center"|9 | {{flagicon|NZL}} Scott Dixon | Honda | align="center"|61 | align="center"|Mechanical | align="center"|2 | align="center"|11 | align="center"| | align="center"|7 |
| align="center"|24
| align="center" style="background:firebrick; color:white;"| 18 | {{flagicon|UK}} Pippa Mann | Honda |align=center| 2 |align=center| Mechanical |align=center| 0 |align=center| 19 |align=center| |align=center| 6 |
;Notes:
{{ref|race1|1}} 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
{{Reflist}}
External links
{{IndyCar Series race report
|Name_of_race = Firestone 550
|Year_of_race = 2013
|Previous_race_in_season = 2013 Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix
|Next_race_in_season = 2013 Milwaukee IndyFest
|Previous_year's_race = 2012 Firestone 550
|Next_year's_race = 2014 Firestone 600
}}
{{2013 IndyCar Series}}