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Guelph's Wickens takes third at Honda Indy

Robert Wickens steps onto podium in his debut year with IndyCar
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Robert Wickens via RobertWickens.com

Guelphite Robert Wickens has made it to the podium, finishing in third place at the Honda IndyCar race at Exhibition Place in downtown Toronto.

Josef Newgardenurn, the American favoured to win the race on Sunday, hit the wall at turn 11 of lap 33.

That hit caused a pile-up on turn one of the following lap and, when the green flag came out, everything changed.

"I just got a super lucky restart. Josef got a little bit wide in turn 11 coming to the green. It was just right place at the right time," Wickens told the Canadian Press on Sunday.

"Basically everyone else was checking up for Josef. I looked up at the flag. I saw the green waving. I had a run, the seas just parted. I had an open line down the inside to Turn one and I took it."

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