Thursday, June 2, 2011

Scott Dixon - Dario Franchitti Leads With 100 Miles To Go - Indy 500 Update

Dario Franchitti, in search of their next Indy 500 acquire and also following inside a row, directed this year's contest together with 100 a long way to visit Sunday.

Oriol Servia involving Spain seemed to be second, and Graham Rahal appeared to be lastly right after beginning many of the manner back in 29th inside the 33-car field. His father, Bobby Rahal, won the actual Indianapolis 500 within 1986.

Franchitti teammate Scott Dixon involving New Zealand appeared to be next and Tony Kanaan junior high as a lot more than 200,000 seemed on during the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Danica Patrick possessed billed for you to seventh immediately after beginning 25th but dropped back to twelfth following your latest restart.

Alex Tagliani, your pole-sitter, additionally had been managing while in the top 10, but the Canadian displaced control as well as scraped your Turn 4 wall structure on Lap 147, arriving his race.

And on Lap 156, Ryan Briscoe and also Townsend Bell associated with Pacific Palisades collided and also slammed into your wall. Briscoe driving to the successful Team Penske, and their a pair of teammates also ended up getting your lousy day. Will Power appeared to be 15th once burning off a steering wheel beginning inside race, as well as Helio Castroneves seemed to be 19th.

Despite anxieties of additional wrecks, using "double-file restarts" once careful attention durations used with the brand new at Indy this year were mostly zero cost with accidents however nerve-wracking because autos restarted also as opposed to single document seeing that these people arrived at rates of speed involving in excess of 220 mph.

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Photo: Dario Franchitti turns Scott Dixon past due in the 100th wedding species with that Indianapolis 500 upon Sunday. Credit: Kamil Krzaczynski / EPA

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