AGR’s Tony Kanaan just beat team mate Marco Andretti to the line for victory in what appears to be the last IRL race held at the ultra fast Michigan International Speedway. But this race will be remembered for the spectacular crash with points leader Dario Franchetti’s car getting airborne after touching wheels with Dan Wheldon’s car at well over 200 mph and bouncing twice before coming to rest inverted.

Luckily Franchetti and all the other drivers involved emerged unscathed from the scary looking incident. Earlier in the race another crash had taken out Helio Castroneves and Vitor Miera which resulted in a harsh exchange of words between the two.

With just a few laps to go it appeared that the race may also grab headlines as Danica Patrick’s first victory as she clearly had the fastest car and was making a good run on both Kanaan and Andretti, but a cut tire meant a last minute pit stop with an eventual seventh place finish for Patrick.

The Top 10 finishers were:

1. Kanaan
2. Andretti
3. Sharp
4. Matsuura
5. Rice
6. Hunter-Reay
7. Patrick
8. Foyt IV
9. Hornish Jr.
10. Dixon

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