Dane Christian Lundgaard converts pole into 1st career win at Honda Indy Toronto

Christian Lundgaard has won the Honda Indy Toronto.

It is Lundgaard's first victory of the IndyCar season.

The Dane started the race on the pole but ultimately won because of a failed strategic gamble by Scott McLaughlin and Scott Dixon.

IndyCar seasons standings leader Alex Palou took second despite starting 15th on the grid and a damaged front wing.

Colton Herta was third for his first podium of the season.

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Toronto's Devlin DeFrancesco, the only Canadian driver in IndyCar this season, exited the race after 10 laps due to a mechanical failure.

Palou had won three of the past four races on the North American open-wheel circuit's schedule, but started 15th on the grid after an early exit from qualifying. His podium finish Sunday padded his lead in the season's standings ahead of Dixon, his Chip Ganassi Racing teammate.

Dixon, the defending Honda Indy Toronto champion, started seventh on the grid and even led for several laps but finished fourth after his team miscalculated when he should pit.

IndyCar officials decided to start the race an hour early with rain predicted for the early evening. Wet conditions had helped Christian Lundgaard in Saturday's qualifying, putting his rally car skills to work on the wet, slippery street course to take the pole.

.<a href="https://twitter.com/lundgaardoff?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@lundgaardoff</a> to the top! <br><br>Lundgaard is looking for his first career <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/INDYCAR?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#INDYCAR</a> win. Can he hang on?<br><br>