TORONTO — Pato O'Ward has won the Ontario Honda Dealers Indy Toronto. It's the seven-year IndyCar Series veteran's first win on the course around Toronto's Exhibition Place. Rinus Veekay finished second and Kyffin Simpson placed third.

Pato O'Ward's tire strategy call paid off, while Alex Palou's did not. O'Ward takes a big bite into the championship in a win at Toronto #HondaIndy

Average Speed of Race Winner: 88.972 mph. Time of Race: 01:48:23.9092. Margin of Victory: 0.4843 seconds. Cautions: 0 for 20 laps. Lead Changes: 7 among 5 drivers. Lap Leaders: Herta 1-3, Palou 4-40, VeeKay 41-56, O'Ward 57, Ericsson 58, Herta 59-61, O'Ward 62.

Mexico's Pato O'Ward has always enjoyed the sights and sounds of Toronto, it's just the IndyCar Series race around Exhibition Place he didn't like, struggling year after year on the street course.

That was made clear earlier this season, when Kyle Kirkwood won on the streets of Long Beach and Detroit. It was reinforced on Saturday when Colton Herta won the pole for Sunday's race on the streets of Toronto.

Colton Herta and the Andretti Global IndyCar team had a horrendous race weekend during last week's Iowa double-header.