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www.insideHALTON.com |OAKVILLE BEAVER |Thursday, April 13, 2017 |38 Second last time, HinchcliffewinsToyotaGrand Prixof Long Beach Oakville IndyCar driver takes checkered flag for first tim e since life-threatening crash By Herb Garbutt Oakville Beaver staff The last tim e Jam es H inchcliffe com p eted in sou thern California he had to settle for sec ond best. In his retu rn Sunday, he w as sec ond to none. The Oakville driver fended off late chal lenges by Ryan H unter-R eay and Sebastien Bourdais to take the checkered flag at the Toyota G ran d P rix of L on g Beach. "A fter Indy, and personally for m e, To ro n to , this is the biggest one to w in ," said H inchcliffe, the ru n ner-up on the 2 3 rd sea son of D ancing w ith the Stars. "I've had a lot of lu ck here. W e've been really quick here in the past and to finally get to V ictory Lane here is m ore than I can p u t into w ords. This place has a lot of history, th at' s w h at drivers really care about. T h e greatest of the greats have w on h e re ." It w as H inchcliffe' s fifth career IndyC ar w in and his first since April 2 0 1 5 in N ew Or leans. T h at v icto ry cam e ju st a m o n th before his life-threatening crash during p ractice for the Indy 5 00. H inchcliffe qualified fourth for the L on g again and Bourdais w as never able to m o u n t a serious threat. "Jam es really deserved th at o n e," Bourdais said. "He looked very com fortable and quick up fron t." H inchcliffe has always raced well on the L on g B each street circuit. His first C ham p C ar p od ium , his first Indy Lights v ictory and his first In d yC ar top-five finish and p o dium all cam e in L on g Beach. Ju s t tw o races into the 2 0 1 7 season, the v icto ry m oved Hinchcliffe into seco n d in the driver standings behind Bourdais. Goal No. 1 was to get back to winner's circle "To finally do w h at w as goal No. 1 w hen w e set o u t at the start of the season, to get b ack into w in n er' s circle, to do so as early in the season as w e have, as convincingly as w e did, w as great," he said. After m issing m o st of the 2 0 1 5 season following his crash at Indy, H inchcliffe re turned last season, and as good as it w as to be b ack in the cock p it of his race car, he said there w as som eth in g missing. "A lo t o f p eop le talked ab ou t 2 0 1 6 as s o rt o f the co m e b a ck year. Personally, w e really w an ted to as a team to p u t an e x c la m atio n p o in t on th at by c o m in g to V icto ry L an e. W e cam e as close as h u m an ly p o s sible in T exas last year -- d id n 't quite get th e jo b d o n e ." Sunday, he did, p uttin g th at long-aw aited exclam ation m ark on his com eb ack. Oakville's James Hinchcliffe takes the checkered flag at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach on Sunday. It was Hinchcliffe's fifth career Indy Car victory. | Photo by Chris Jones - IndyCar B each race b u t w as bum ped up to third w hen Sim on Pagenaud w as assessed a penalty and sent to the b ack of the field. H e ju m p ed up to seco n d place off the start and ran at the front of the p ack th rou gh ou t the race. H inchcliffe to o k the lead briefly on lap 5 6 of 8 5 but surrendered the lead on the n e x t lap w h en he cam e in for his second pit stop. He regained the lead w h en leader S cott D ixon pitted on Lap 6 3 . H inchcliffe and for m er A ndretti team m ate H unter-R eay w ere battling for the lead w ith five laps rem ain ing w h en H unter-R eay' s car suddenly slowed and cam e to a stop. T h at b rou gh t ou t a caution w h ich brought the field b ack to H inchcliffe, w iping o u t the lead he had built. O n the restart, H inchcliffe pulled away Who Does It... 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