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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing driver made Scott Dixon a Barber Motorsports Park bridesmaid for a record sixth time, beating the reigning series champion to the finish line by 2.3874 seconds. It was the fourth win of Sato’s 10-year NTT IndyCar Series career, with the 42-year-old from Tokyo becoming the third different driver – each from a different team – to pull into victory lane in three races this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – Results Sunday of the Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama NTT IndyCar Series event on the 2.3-mile Barber Motorsports Park, with order of finish, starting position in parentheses, driver, engine, laps completed and reason out (if any):<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1. (1) Takuma Sato, Honda, 90, Running<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2. (3) Scott Dixon, Honda, 90, Running<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3. (5) Sebastien Bourdais, Honda, 90, Running<\/p>\n\n\n\n
4. (16) Josef Newgarden, Chevrolet, 90, Running<\/p>\n\n\n\n
5. (8) Alexander Rossi, Honda, 90, Running<\/p>\n\n\n\n
6. (4) James Hinchcliffe, Honda, 90, Running<\/p>\n\n\n\n
7. (20) Marcus Ericsson, Honda, 90, Running<\/p>\n\n\n\n
8. (11) Ryan Hunter-Reay, Honda, 90, Running<\/p>\n\n\n\n
9. (14) Simon Pagenaud, Chevrolet, 90, Running<\/p>\n\n\n\n
10. (17) Felix Rosenqvist, Honda, 90, Running<\/p>\n\n\n\n
11. (7) Will Power, Chevrolet, 90, Running<\/p>\n\n\n\n
12. (23) Zach Veach, Honda, 90, Running<\/p>\n\n\n\n
13. (12) Jack Harvey, Honda, 90, Running<\/p>\n\n\n\n
14. (13) Marco Andretti, Honda, 90, Running<\/p>\n\n\n\n
15. (10) Santino Ferrucci, Honda, 90, Running<\/p>\n\n\n\n
16. (18) Patricio O’Ward, Chevrolet, 90, Running<\/p>\n\n\n\n
17. (6) Spencer Pigot, Chevrolet, 90, Running<\/p>\n\n\n\n
18. (19) Tony Kanaan, Chevrolet, 89, Running<\/p>\n\n\n\n
19. (21) Ed Jones, Chevrolet, 89, Running<\/p>\n\n\n\n
20. (15) Matheus Leist, Chevrolet, 89, Running<\/p>\n\n\n\n
21. (24) Ben Hanley, Chevrolet, 88, Running<\/p>\n\n\n\n
22. (22) Max Chilton, Chevrolet, 88, Running<\/p>\n\n\n\n
23. (2) Graham Rahal, Honda, 55, Off Course<\/p>\n\n\n\n
24. (9) Colton Herta, Honda, 51, Running<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Race Statistics<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Winner’s average speed:<\/strong> 107.272 mph<\/p>\n\n\n\n Time of Race:<\/strong> 1:55:46.8076<\/p>\n\n\n\n Margin of victory<\/strong>: 2.3874 seconds<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cautions: <\/strong>1 for 7 laps<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lead changes: <\/strong>11 among six drivers<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lap Leaders:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Sato, Takuma 1 – 16<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rahal, Graham 17<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hinchcliffe, James 18<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rossi, Alexander 19<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bourdais, Sebastien 20 – 27<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sato, Takuma 28 – 36<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dixon, Scott 37<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hinchcliffe, James 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rossi, Alexander 39 – 40<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sato, Takuma 41 – 56<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dixon, Scott 57<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sato, Takuma 58 – 90<\/p>\n\n\n\n NTT IndyCar Series point standings: <\/strong> Newgarden 125, Dixon 98, Sato 91, Rossi 84, Herta 81, Bourdais 72, Hinchcliffe 71, Hunter-Reay 66, Power 66, Andretti 61.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Near-flawless performance takes Sato to victory at Barber BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Sunday, April 7, 2019) – Takuma Sato drove flawlessly – almost – to win the Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama presented by AmFirst and throw his name firmly into the NTT IndyCar Series championship conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indycar","category-touring-series-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24911,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24910\/revisions\/24911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}