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Schmidt-Hamilton Motorsports' Simon Pagenaud met with the media after securing his second win in the IZOD IndyCar Series on Sunday with success in the Grand Prix of Baltimore presented by SRT.

Simon Pagenaud survived a wild and heated race at Baltimore on Sunday to claim his second win in the 2013 IZOD IndyCar Series ahead of Josef Newgarden and Sebastien Bourdais.

Ganassi's Scott Dixon and Dario Franchitti made an early impact in proceedings at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in first practice on Friday ahead of this weekend's Honda Indy 200.

No one doubted Simon Pagenaud's talent or ability to win an IZOD IndyCar Series race, and it finally happened in the second round of the Chevrolet Indy Dual in Detroit presented by Quicken Loans on Sunday.

Ryan Hunter-Reay clinched victory in the IZOD IndyCar Series Grand Prix of Baltimore on Sunday afternoon, to set up a showdown with Will Power for the title at the final race of 2012.

Marco Andretti blitzed the field on Fast Friday, hitting 227.540mph on with the assistance of the additional turboboost that all the drivers got to use for the first time.

SH Racing have announced that they will be entering the inaugural Baltimore Grand Prix in September, and will be joining up again with their Indy 500 driver Tomas Scheckter.

Justin Wilson fractured a bone in his back during practice on Saturday morning and will need to be flown back to Indianapolis for further tests and evaluation regarding treatment.

It was a case of so close, yet ultimately so far for Simon Pagenaud in the 2011 Le Mans 24 Hours - the Frenchman's first finish in four starts in the La Sarthe round-the-clock classic - and just 13.8 seconds away from victory...

Rumours were flying around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Friday that Scott Speed was set to walk out of Dragon Racing's Indy bid after a series of bad-tempered rows between driver and crew.

The #3 Peugeot 908 was the first of the Lion's four-strong challenge to depart the fray in the 2010 Le Mans 24 Hours - and here Pedro Lamy, the driver behind the wheel at the time, muses just what went so badly wrong...