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The 27-year-old driver for Rahal Letterman Racing, Ryan Hunter Reay started 20th and finished sixth in race, one spot better than Andretti Green Racing’s Hideki Mutoh.
Hunter-Reay received a prize of US$328,065 at the victory dinner night, including a $25,000 bonus as the race’s top rookie. He also was the IndyCar Series rookie of the year in 2007 after joining Rahal Letterman at mid-season.
His sixth-place finish was his best so far this year, following seventh-place runs in the opener at Homestead, Fla., and last month in Japan.
“This is a great finish for us, ” said the Boca Raton, Fla., driver, who began racing go-carts in the 1990s and drove in the Barber Dodge Pro Series and Toyota Atlantic Series before joining the former Champ Car Series in 2003. “This year, I think, means a lot more to the (top) rookie, the Indianapolis 500 rookie of the year battle than in a bunch of years.
“Man, this is a great field to be on top of, ” he said.
Besides Hunter-Reay and Mutoh, the other first-year Indy drivers were Oriol Servia, who finished 11th.
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