Tony Kanaan makes up for bad luck by cruising to victory at Richmond Indy race

Brazilian Tony Kanaan took advantage of an out-of-sequence pit stop by front-running teammate Marco Andretti to run away with the SunTrust Indy Challenge on Saturday for his first victory of the season.

On a night when half of the 26 cars in the largest IndyCar Series field at Richmond International Raceway went home damaged, pole-sitter Kanaan got some overdue good fortune, avoiding the near-constant mayhem caused by a record-tying nine caution flags and coasting to his 13th career IndyCar victory.

The victory came a week after Kanaan led 71 laps at Iowa before crashing, absorbing what he said was one of the hardest hits of his life and his latest …