From Curt Calvin: Dario Franchitti went to victory lane Sunday in Toronto after surviving a bumpy afternoon--both on the track and on pit road.
Franchitti, the pole winner, had a long first pit stop because of a lug nut problem on his left rear tire. No one on the Ganassi Racing crew panicked. They just fixed it, and their driver did the rest, although he got a big boost on his second stop when, for the second time this season, a race went his way because the caution periods suited him perfectly.
Franchitti was committed to pit road as Graham Rahal banged into Ed Carpenter. Race officials ruled that Franchitti could make his stop and, just as important, gave him the position ahead of crowd favorite Paul Tracy, who stayed on the track. Franchitti won in Long Beach earlier this year in similar fashion.
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