VIDEO
Seconds out,
round one... Well,
not quite. Here
are the highlights
of the buildup to
the big race fight
that wasn’t
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TEAMMATE VS. TEAMMATE
“It was a stupid move,” said
Tony Kanaan of the attempted
pass by Marco Andretti that
sent him high up the track
and into a lazy spin that
collected Sarah Fisher and put
him out of the race. “I think
teammates shouldn't do that
to teammates. I'm sure he
will have a good explanation
for what he did.”
For his part, Andretti
admitted the move might
have been a little late in the
corner (see separate story),
but that he didn’t want to
check up and give his pursuers
an edge. Whoever was at
fault, the result was once
again Kanaan not finishing an
Indianapolis 500 in which he
was a contender.
Paul Webb/LAT
DANICA’S MARCH TO WAR
IndyCar Series security chief Charles Burns
was just doing his job when he stopped her,
but there’s a legion of fans who would have
liked to have seen what would have happened
had Danica Patrick reached the Penske pit
after Ryan Briscoe and Patrick collided exiting
the pits on lap 171.
Facing a no-win situation where he’d no
doubt have been criticized regardless of
how he handled the confrontation, Briscoe
remained in his car with his helmet on when
team boss Roger Penske warned him that
Patrick was on the march.
“It is probably best I didn't get down there
anyway, isn't it?” Patrick said later. Probably. But
we’d still like to have seen how it ended.
SEEING YELLOW
It wasn’t quite a record, but 69 laps of caution was
a lot, and the frequency of the incidents really
affected the way the race was run. For one thing, it
kept a lot of cars on the lead lap because the
leaders rarely got around to the back of the field.
And the leaders never really battled in traffic,
which could be viewed as a blessing or a curse
depending on how good and aggressive a particular
driver is when lapping.
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