Chris Berube, Chevy's IndyCar Program Manager, saluted the never-say-die attitudes his teams displayed at Long Beach.

"Today's four of the top-five including the victory and seven of the top-10 finishes by our Chevrolet V-6 IndyCar teams in the Grand Prix of Long Beach Indy is a testimony to the determination, talent and spirit of cooperation of Team Chevy in the IZOD IndyCar Series," he said. Each one of our Chevrolet teams and drivers put forth their best effort to overcome the adversity of their starting positions. It was an amazing race to watch and a great show for the fans. Congratulations to Will on his second win of the season and to Roger Penske on his third victory this year."

Of the notables outside the top 5, KV Racing's Rubens Barrichello came tantalizingly close to making the podium, but had to pit for a few gallons of fuel on Lap 78. He would recover to take ninth.

Dale Coyne Racing's Justin Wilson suffered a similar fate. After leading convincingly up to the first round of pit stops, the Briton had to pit with four laps remaining, dropping to 10th.

Target Chip Ganassi Racing had a day to forget as Scott Dixon, Honda's most reliable performer, stalled on the track on Lap 27, and with his engine unwilling to re-fire, the safety crew opted to leave his car trackside (out of harm's way) to expedite the return to green flag racing.

Defending series champion Dario Franchitti had a race to forget after inheriting the pole. He was passed in succession by most of the Honda runners lap after lap into Turn 1 and dealt with a car had engine issues, mechanical problems and also needed a new nose after Franchitti came together with Ryan Briscoe.

The Scot would finish a rather forgettable three laps down in 15th, and after three races, holds 13th in the standings.

“We were on a two-stop strategy obviously and thought that would be the way the race played out," he said. "We didn’t have the car handling quite right, but we were still staying close to the front. We had four over-boost penalties on one restart, and Briscoe came across and damaged the front wing. After that we lost time making a wing change and to top it all had a mechanical failure.”

Oriol Servia was the top Lotus driver on the day, placing 16th.

"It wasn't the best Long Beach Grand Prix I've had in my life or what we expected," said the Spaniard. "From the start I felt that we didn't have the top speed, but we knew that. It was tough out there and then we had a little bit of bad luck in the pit stop. We lost a wheel nut and that's what put us two laps down. Not the best day out there, but I'm really happy with the team, they kept their heads down and in the end that's what will give us the results."

Results Sunday of the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach IZOD IndyCar Series event on the 1.968 mile Streets of Long Beach, with order of finish, starting position in parentheses, driver, chassis-engine, laps completed and reason out (if any):

1. (12) Will Power, Dallara-Chevy, 85, Running
2. (4) Simon Pagenaud, Dallara-Honda, 85, Running
3. (16) James Hinchcliffe, Dallara-Chevy, 85, Running
4. (19) Tony Kanaan, Dallara-Chevy, 85, Running
5. (20) JR Hildebrand, Dallara-Chevy, 85, Running
6. (13) Ryan Hunter-Reay, Dallara-Chevy, 85, Running
7. (11) Ryan Briscoe, Dallara-Chevy, 85, Running
8. (6) Takuma Sato, Dallara-Honda, 84, Running
9. (22) Rubens Barrichello, Dallara-Chevy, 84, Running
10. (3) Justin Wilson, Dallara-Honda, 84, Running
11. (14) James Jakes, Dallara-Honda, 84, Running
12. (15) EJ Viso, Dallara-Chevy, 84, Running
13. (18) Helio Castroneves, Dallara-Chevy, 84, Running
14. (24) Ed Carpenter, Dallara-Chevy, 83, Running
15. (1) Dario Franchitti, Dallara-Honda, 82, Running
16. (23) Oriol Servia, Dallara-Lotus, 82, Running
17. (25) Sebastien Bourdais, Dallara-Lotus, 82, Running
18. (9) Charlie Kimball, Dallara-Honda, 80, Running
19. (26) Katherine Legge, Dallara-Lotus, 80, Running
20. (17) Simona de Silvestro, Dallara-Lotus, 74, Mechanical
21. (10) Alex Tagliani, Dallara-Lotus, 46, Mechanical
22. (7) Mike Conway, Dallara-Honda, 41, Mechanical
23. (5) Scott Dixon, Dallara-Honda, 27, Mechanical
24. (8) Graham Rahal, Dallara-Honda, 23, Contact
25. (21) Marco Andretti, Dallara-Chevy, 22, Contact
26. (2) Josef Newgarden, Dallara-Honda, 0, Contact

Race Statistics
Winners average speed: 88.021
Time of Race: 01:54:01.6082
Margin of victory: .8675 of a second
Cautions: 3 for 12 laps
Lead changes: 9 among 7 drivers
Lap Leaders:
Franchitti 1 - 4
Wilson 5 - 19
Sato 20 - 27
Hunter-Reay 28
Briscoe 29 - 33
Pagenaud 34 - 47
Sato 48 - 55
Hunter-Reay 56 - 58
Pagenaud 59 - 70
Power 71 - 85
Point Standings: Will Power 127, Helio Castroneves 103, Simon Pagenaud 100, Scott Dixon 96, James Hinchcliffe 95, Ryan Hunter-Reay 81, Ryan Briscoe 72, Graham Rahal 62, Rubens Barrichello 59, JR Hildebrand 57

RACE REPLAY

The start of the Long Beach Grand Prix saw 21-year-old Josef Newgarden give into rookie temptations as he attempted to pass defacto pole-sitter Dario Franchitti around the outside of Turn 1.

The Scot, who got the jump at the start, gave front-row mate Newgarden room on the outside, but the Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing driver turned himself on the Target Chip Ganassi Racing car on corner entry, clipping Franchitti’s right front tire with his left rear.

Newgarden’s cheeky move tipped him into the wall, ending his day just seconds into the event and also brought out the yellow, promoting Simon Pagenaud to second.

“I had a feeling that was going to happen,” said the dejected youngster. “I just got touched on the exit. I thought I had a good run on him and got a good run on him. It’s a tough call. I feel bad for the team; I feel like I didn’t do a good job for them.”

With the entire Chevrolet camp starting 10 spots back, the biggest mover on Lap 1 was Ryan Hunter-Reay who leapfrogged Team Penske’s Ryan Briscoe, the actual pole winner, and made his way from 13th to 10th. With the subtraction of Newgarden from the mix, RHR restarted ninth.

Bryan Herta Autosport’s Alex Tagliani pitted on Lap 2 during the yellow, returning two laps down. The green came out on Lap 4, with Justin Wilson pulling off the outside move on Franchitti that Newgarden failed to complete, grabbing the lead exiting Turn 1.

By Lap 6, Ganassi Racing’s Charlie Kimball passed his teammate, Graham Rahal, for sixth and began to chase down his other teammate, Scott Dixon. Hunter-Reay picked up another spot, running eighth, the highest Chevy at that point of the race.

Hunter-Reay’s teammate Marco Andretti was the first car to pit, stopping to switch from Firestone Blacks to Reds on Lap 7.

After losing 4.2 seconds to Wilson in five laps, Franchitti’s chassis balance appeared to be far from perfect as Pagenaud streaked by into Turn 1 on Lap 9.

Behind Franchitti, Takuma Sato was impressing on Blacks, the only car in the top 5 on the harder compound. The Rahal Letterman Lanigan driver got to within .4 seconds of Franchitti by Lap 11 and started to look for a way past as the reigning series champion saw his Honda engine bang off the rev limiter earlier than desired on the straights.

Tony Kanaan pitted on Lap 11, taking fuel and Reds, which dropped the KV Racing driver well down the running order.

Pagenaud was undoubtedly faster than Franchitti, but initially struggled to maintain the gap to Wilson, which stretched out to 5.0 seconds by Lap 12. Sato, like Wilson and Pagenaud, also used Turn 1 to get by Franchitti on the same lap.

The Chevrolet march, at least by Lap 13, was somewhat stalled. RHR continued to hold eighth, Briscoe was 10th and Will Power was 11th, 13 seconds behind Wilson. Oriol Servia pitted for Reds, but a slow stop left the Spaniard a lap down when he returned to the track.