RACE-DEFINING CAUTION

The season is littered with examples of the timing of caution flags helping some and hurting others. Toronto is the best example. The scenario is created at circuits where a pit stop can be made under green without losing a lap. When a caution divides the field by when they’ve pitted, those who have stopped on pit road cycle to the front as competitors pit. In Toronto, Power benefited by being on pit road when Josef Newgarden crashed on lap 58 of 85. Race leader Scott Dixon and secondplace Pagenaud were shuffled