indy 500 highlights in SAN JOSE indy 500 highlights SAN JOSE

indy 500 highlights in SAN JOSE

indy 500 highlights SAN JOSE

indy 500 highlights in SAN JOSE.Two years removed from a failed try in nascar, franchitti held on with a scant 1.
Conway, who waved to the crowd as he was being taken off the track, was airlifted to the hospital with a broken leg.
Polesitter helio castroneves saw his quest for a recordtying fourth indy victory come to an end with an uncharacteristic mistake stalling out while leaving the pits on the 146th lap.
It left him in need of a yellowflag miracle at the end that never came, and he finished ninth after one last pit stop on the 193rd lap.
Danica patrick picked and poked her way from 23rd to finish fifth despite a balky car that she had complained about in qualifying.
Tony kanaan finished 11th after moving from 33rd and last to as high as second.
His chances of becoming the first driver in the 94 years of the race to go from worst to first ended when he had to go to the pits for a splash of fuel with four laps to go.
He did as he was told, and after leading 154 of the first 199 laps at speeds of up to 224.
Wheldon started bearing down, putting himself in position to make the last lap of the indy 500 the first lap he had led all year on the circuit.
He did, and was on his way to a milk mustache in victory lane.
Raphael matos, who got to second early in the race, dropped back when his right rear tire came off then went out when he hit the wall on lap 72.
Power crept his way back into the top five briefly, but another pitroad mixup cost him time.
The 29yearold australian, first before the race in the indycar standings, finished eighth.
But without as good a car as the leaders, he fell back to sixth.
Nobody ran a cleaner, more tactically superior race than franchitti.
Winning the big one is sweeter.
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