The pressure on the new leader was lifted when Jaime Camara crashed out after a touch from Will Power, and Hunter-Reay made no mistake when the race restarted for the last time six laps from home. While Manning initially fended off renewed attempts from Kanaan, the Ethanol car was able to make a break that would be enough to give Hunter-Reay his first IndyCar Series win, and the first for a single-car team for more than two years.
Manning held on to second, providing a welcome boost to his chances of remaining with the Foyt Enterprises team, while Kanaan settled for third as his injured wrist began to give him pain.
Buddy Rice took fourth despite late race pressure from marco Andretti, the veteran improving on last year's sixth place at the same event and giving Dreyer & Reinbold a useful shot of points. Behind Andretti, Junqueira and Mario Moraes did the same for the tiny Coyne team, while Graham Rahal, Hideki Mutoh and Viso rounded out the top ten.
Dixon and Briscoe came home eleventh and twelfth, the Kiwi chastened and apologetic, his Australian rival phlegmatic after their coming together. Dixon's poor result, in particular, would have been good for his title rivals - had so many of them not run into problems of their own. Castroneves finished a lap down in 16th and Wheldon parked up when it became apparent that he had too few laps to overxcome the 18 he lost having his suspension repaired, allowing Kanaan to make major inroads into the three drivers ahead of him in points at the start of the day.
Like Meira, Wilson and Wheldon, KV Racing Technology could have scored well after promising practice and qualifying runs for Power and Oriol Servia, but both struggled with electrical problems. Servia eventually succumbed to his, but had already seen a potential top five finish go west with a drive-thru' for breaking the pit-lane speed limit by 2mph, while Power came home as the last car on the lead lap, in 15th.
