Wilson, riding on Firestone alternate tires on that final restart, pulled away and beat Briscoe to the checkers by 4.9906 seconds. Dixon, who took over the championship points lead, finished third. Helio Castroneves advanced nine positions to finish fourth. Marco Andretti overcame contact with E.J. Viso’s car on Lap 5 that put him a lap down, wound his way through the field to overtake Mike Conway on the final lap for fifth.

"It took too long," said Coyne, who is competing in his 25th year of open-wheel racing as a driver and owner, about the long-awaited victory. "We knew Justin was a strong road racer. We almost showed it at St. Pete, and we showed it here."

Wilson inherited the lead on Lap 45 when Andretti made his final service stop for ethanol and Firestone Firehawks in the No. 26 Team Venom Energy car for Andretti Green Racing. Briscoe closed to .4743 of a second with 10 laps left before a full-course caution period on Lap 52 when Hideki Mutoh’s car made contact with the barrier in Turn 7. Wilson had two sets of the Firehawk "reds" at his disposal for the race.

Briscoe, running on the regular compound tires the final stint, was runner-up for the fourth time this season and is tied for second in the standings with Dario Franchitti (19 points behind). Franchitti’s No. 10 Polaroid car for Target Chip Ganassi Racing spun and came to rest in the gravel in the Inner Loop on Lap 23. He returned and finished 15th.

"Big congrats to Dale Coyne and the whole team and Justin," said Briscoe, who won the PEAK Performance Pole Award with a record-setting lap in the Firestone Fast Six session. "We went a lap further than him in the first stint. That was going to get us the lead back, but unfortunately the yellow came and we had to make two pit stops. That put us back. We had to work hard to come through the field. We had some great pit stops and it was pretty exciting at the end with everybody on the softer compound. I had my hands full defending them."

The pole winner has never won the race at The Glen in five visits by the IndyCar Series.

Viso finished a season-high seventh in the No. 13 PDVSA HVM Racing car, and Tony Kanaan posted his second consecutive top 10 in the No. 11 Team 7-Eleven car for Andretti Green Racing.

"We moved many positions in the pits," said Viso, who recorded his first top 10 of the season. "And I am very proud of being able to work very hard throughout the championship to achieve, little by little, better results. Now we head to Toronto."

Robert Doornbos, who started 17th in the No. 06 Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing car, equaled his season high with a ninth-place finish. Dan Wheldon, driving the No. 4 National Guard Panther Racing entry, finished 10th and Danica Patrick was 11th in the No. 7 Boost Mobile/Motorola car.