Andretti Green Racing’s team leader Tony Kanaan (below), overcame his disappointemnt at Indy by taking victory on the historic Milwaukee Mile in this weekend’s IRL event. Indy 500 winner and AGR team mate Dario Franchitti finished second which places him in the championship lead. Third place Dan Wheldon was involved in a controversial incident with Danica Patrick earlier in the race with the annoyed Patrick finishing 8th.
Although she had qualified poorly, occupying the penultimate spot on the grid, Patrick drove through the traffic, sometimes passing two cars at once, to make her way as high as fourth, She was visibly the most agressive drive on-track and passed more cars throughout the day than any other driver. As she went three wide with Franchitti and Wheldon her right front contacted Wheldon’s left rear tipping her into a spin at 150 mph. Displaying excellent car control she recovered the car as it spun onto the infield grass and continued on, but is was soon evident that her right hand steering arm was damaged. Subsequent stops to repair the damage dropped her once more to the rear of the field, from which she drove back up to finish a hard fought 8th. After the race Patrick confronted Wheldon in the pit lane and made her views forcibly known.
The fastest car for most of the day was clearly the Penske of Helio Castroneves who lead 126 laps when his rear wing suddenly collapsed spinning him into the inside wall (below). When Penske team mate Sam Hornish’s car started to show signs of a similar wing problem dropping him back down the field, questions were raised about the leagility of the wing mounts.
The Top 10 Finishers were:
- Tony Kanaan
- Dario Franchitti
- Dan Wheldon
- Scott Dixon
- Vitor Meira
- Scott Sharp
- Ed Carpenter
- DanicaPatrick
- Sam Hornish Jr.
- Jeff Simmons
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[...] 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 [...]