Penske driver Sam Hornish Jr. dominated this weekend’s IRL race at the high banked Texas Motor Speedway from the drop of the flag. In fact even before the green flag flew he took charge of getting the pack up to speed after pole sitter Scott Sharp recieved a warning from race control for going too slow.

The race had been heavily promoted as a continuation of the Danica Patrick / Dan Wheldon “grudge” match, but despite the two running close on occasions and an off-hand remark by Patrick over the radio about Wheldon “cutting down” in the corners, it never really materialized.

In fact Wheldon was eliminated in a six car incident sparked by A.J. Foyt IV loosing a wheel. Perhaps the most amazing move of the race, if not the year, came from last week’s winner Tony Kanaan as he threaded the needle between the errant wheel and Foyt’s out of control car at close to 200 mph!

Towards the end of the race Kanaan and Patrick (who was the fastest car on track over the last ten laps) caught up with Hornish, but just didn’t have enough to get past the defending series champion.

The Top 10 finishers were:

1.  Sam Hornish Jr 
2.  Tony Kanaan 
3.  Danica Patrick 
4.  Dario Franchitti 
5.  Vitor Meira  
6.  Jeff Simmons  
7.  Scott Sharp  
8.  Buddy Rice 
9.  Kosuke Matsuura 
10.  Sarah Fisher  

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