The Frenchman was comfortably clear of Dominguez, who somehow survived his own mishaps to take sixth spot, just ahead of Bruno Junqueira, who shrugged off a spin into the same turn six run-off that ended Dominguez's front-running performance a year ago, to claim another top seven result for Dale Coyne Racing. Ryan Dalziel and the luckless Tagliani filled the remaining top ten positions, ahead of Wilson.
Tagliani was the victim of an unintention punt from Katherine Legge midway through the race, having appeared to check up while Dominguez had a moment ahead of him. Legge, however, was not quite so blameless some laps further on, when a speculative attempt to pass the recently-pitted Neel Jani ended with both retiring. Until that point, the Swiss driver had apepared to be on course for a solid top five result, if not better, but contact from legge's Dale Coyne entry put the
Red Bull PKV car out on the spot.
If the thought of ending the aspirations of one of manager Kevin Kalkhoven's drivers was not bad enough, Legge's front wing broke in the incident and, trapped under the front of her car, left her helpless to avoid her own contact with the barriers. Although the impact was slight, an unsighted Dan Clarke then clouted the rear of the yellow-and-black machine, confirming Legge's retirement and putting an end to his own afternoon, which had already started two laps after everyone else.
The three retirements were, until Gommendy's unfortunate exit, the only casualties of the afternoon, although Matt Halliday rounded out the finishers after another fraught afternoon for Conquest Racing. The Kiwi came home 16 laps adrift of Bourdais after contact and a puncture, placing behind Gommendy in the final result. Roberto Moreno, meanwhile, completed his comeback with Pacific Coast Motorsports by steering Alex Figge's regular mount to twelfth spot, three laps down.
