Mike Conway ran the first 28 of 85 laps on the streets of Long Beach in a comfortable third﷽ place, but problems overshooting his pit box during the first round of stops dumped him down to 19th position and seemed to have ended any chance he had of a good result here, on a track notoriously resistant to overtaking.

But an accident at a double file restart on lap 67 saw Helio Castroneves accidentally spin his team mate Will Power into the tyres at turn 1 and also remove Scott Dixon from consideration, leaving Conway back up to sixth for the next attempt to go green. A wobble from Alex Tagliani allowed him through up to fourth, and then two astonishingly assured overtaking moves on Dario Franchitti and R꧟yan Briscoe, coupled with a gearbox failure for Ryan Hunter-Reay, saw Conway suddenly surge into the lead and off into the distance all the way to the chequered flag, to take his first ever♎ IZOD IndyCar win.

Dario Franchitti spent much of the race stuck back in 7th place but al🌠so benefited from the Penske fall-out to take third place and put him back on🔯 top of the IndyCar championship points standings.

Race results

1. #27 Mike Conway 85 laps 85 laps
2. #6 Ryan Briscoe 85 laps + 6.3203s
3. #10 Dario Franchitti 85 laps + 6.7163s
4. #06 James Hinchcliffe 85 laps + 9.1705s
5. #77 Alex Tagliani 85 laps + 16.0177s
6. #2 Oriol Servia 85 laps + 16.8966s
7. #7 Danica Patrick 85 laps + 17.5016s
8. #82 Tony Kanaan 85 laps + 18.9655s
9. #14 Vitor Meira 85 laps + 19.4723s
10. #12 Will Power 85 laps + 19.8909s
11. #17 Raphael Matos 85 laps + 20.4660s
12. #3 Helio Castroneves 85 laps + 20.7784s
13. #38 Graham Rahal 85 laps + 21.3464s
14. #34 Sebastian Saavedra 85 laps + 23.1137s
15. #18 James Jakes 85 laps + 24.5926s
16. #8 Paul Tracy 85 laps + 63.7578s
17. #4 JR Hildebrand 85 laps + 70.9001s
18. #9 Scott Dixon 84 laps + 1 laps 23.4515s
19. #24 Ana Beatriz 83 laps + 2 laps 45.4151s
20. #78 Simona de Silvestro 82 laps + 3 laps 29.0387s
21. #5 Takuma Sato 81 laps + 4 laps 41.9446s
22. #22 Justin Wilson 78 laps + 7 laps
23. #28 Ryan Hunter-Reay 72 laps + 13 laps Mechanical
24. #83 Charlie Kimball 66 laps + 19 laps Mechanical
25. #59 EJ Viso 59 laps + 26 laps Contact
26. #26 Marco Andretti 37 laps + 48 laps Mechanical
27. #19 Sebastien Bourdais 27 laps + 58 laps Contact