Wilson became the first non-Chip Ganassi Racing or Team Penske driver to win an IndyCar race since his victory at Detroit last August when he drove for Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing.

Coyne, competing in his 25th year of open-wheel racing as a driver and owner, picked up his first win in his 558th start.

Wilson is looking to continue his street/road course success at Toronto.

"We're slowly picking things up, and we know where the next improvement is going to come from," Wilson said. "(At Toronto), you can be very close and still a long way off. So it's the fine details that make a difference. That first run you hit the track at Toronto you'll know whether you're really close or you have a few changes to make."

With his third-place finish, Dixon grabbed the lead in the championship standings. The Ganassi driver and defending series champion now holds a 19- point advantage over Briscoe and teammate Dario Franchitti, who finished 15th after falling one lap behind due to an early-race spin in the gravel.

Dixon also became a father on Sunday when his wife, Emma, gave birth to the couple's first child, a girl. He returned to Indianapolis in time for the delivery. No name has been released as of yet.

Toronto will hold a major open-wheel event for the first time since 2007 when CART/Champ Car ran there. The former open-wheel circuit made Toronto a regular stop on its schedule from 1986 to 2007. Bobby Rahal won the inaugural event. Michael Andretti owned the streets of Toronto, winning a record seven times there.

FORMULA ONE

German Grand Prix - Nurburgring - Nurburg, Germany

After a two-week break, Formula One resumes its season with the German Grand Prix.

Sebastian Vettel returns to his home country after a dominating performance in the June 21 British Grand Prix. Vettel started on the pole and relinquished the lead only when he pitted for the final time. He finished a whopping 15 seconds ahead of teammate Mark Webber to give Red Bull Racing a one-two finish and overpower the mighty Brawn GP for the second time this season.

The young German recorded his third career F1 victory but his first in dry conditions. His maiden win came in the rain-soaked Italian Grand Prix last September, as he set a new F1 record for youngest race winner -- at age 21. In April, he overcame rainy conditions to win the Chinese Grand Prix and give Red Bull its first victory.

Vettel, who celebrated his 22nd birthday last Friday, will run his first ever F1 event at the 3.2-mile, 16-turn Nurburgring.

"I'm looking forward to it, it's my home race," Vettel said. "I hope to continue and try to repeat what we did (in the British Grand Prix), which won't be easy but for sure, that's what we're aiming for."

The German GP will also be the "home" race for Timo Glock, Nick Heidfeld, Nico Rosberg and Adrian Sutil.

Vettel's victory in the British GP helped keep his F1 title hopes very much alive. Current championship leader Jenson Button from Brawn has accumulated 64 points so far this season, compared to 41 points for his teammate Rubens Barrichello and 39 for Vettel.

Button, winner of six of the first eight grand prix this year, finished a season-worst sixth in the British GP. He fell several positions behind on the opening lap and was never a factor from there.

"With the extra week's break, everyone at the factory and at Mercedes-Benz High Performance Engines has been working extremely hard in preparation for the German Grand Prix to get the best package for the race, and we're looking forward to showing what the car can do at the Nurburgring after a disappointing weekend by our standards at the British Grand Prix," Button said.

The Nurburgring, known as "The Ring," will host the German GP for the first time since 1985. The event was held at the 2.842-mile, 13-turn Hockenheimring from 1986 to 2006, and again in 2008. Two years ago, organizers moved the German round of the F1 World Championship to the Nurburgring and renamed the event the European Grand Prix due to a disagreement over naming rights.

Defending World Champion Lewis Hamilton won last year's German GP at the Hockenheimring. The McLaren driver ran at the Nurburgring for the first time in F1 during his 2007 rookie season.

"The Nurburgring is a fantastic circuit, a little older than a lot of the current tracks we currently visit and with quite a different feel to what we're used to - it's fast and flowing with some good spots for overtaking," Hamilton said.

Hamilton's season woes continued with a 16th-place finish in the British GP. He has scored only nine points so far this year.