30-05-2005, 11:56 PM
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<span style="color:red">Wheldon wins Indy 500, but Danica steals show
Female rookie loses lead with 7 laps left because of fuel issues<!--sizec--><!--/sizec-->
Dan Wheldon takes a drink of milk after winning the 89th Indianapolis 500 on Sunday. Wheldon, 26, gave owner Michael Andretti his first Indy win.
Patrick stole the show at the Indianapolis 500, giving the guys a real run for their money and nearly grabbing the biggest purse in auto racing before finishing fourth.
<span style="color:yellow">The 5-foot-2, 100-pound rookie thrilled the 300,000 or so spectators at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway who spent much of the final 30 laps on their feet screaming and cheering as he she tried to pull off the biggest upset in 89 years of Indy history.
Englishman Dan Wheldon got to celebrate in Victory Lane and will pocket at least $1.5 million, but Patrick gave Americans a new hero to follow in a sport dominated in recent years by foreign drivers.
In fact, only 14 of the 33 starters in Sundays race were Americans.
May 29: Sensational rookie Danica Patrick talks about how much she learned in her first Indy 500, when she finished fourth.
After being the biggest surprise of the month turning some of the fastest speeds in practice and qualifying fourth the 23-year-old Patrick was almost good enough to take the checkered flag Sunday. She led three times for 19 laps and overcame a stalled engine in the pits and a crash on the track before a nearly empty fuel tank finally cost her this first shot at racing immortality.
I think that if I could have run full fuel ... well never know, she said, wistfully. You know, Id like to think that we could have maybe won it.
So much for the critics who said the tiny woman, who had never raced for more than 300 miles, would fade at the end of the long Indy event.
She did make those rookie mistakes, but Patrick wasnt so much upset by that as by the fact they put her back in the pack.
I came from the back twice, she said. That (stinks) back there. Its hard. I was so (much) more content running up front. It was much easier.
She got the lead late in the race by gambling on a long fuel run and staying on track when the other leaders pitted. And it looked like it was all over for Patrick when Wheldon passed her for the lead on lap 186.
But, with the crowd in a frenzy, she zoomed back on top on a restart on lap 190 and began to pull away until she was ordered to slow to conserve fuel. Her laps speeds dropped from 226 to 221.
Wheldon regained the lead on lap 194 and Vitor Meira and Bryan Herta also got past before the finish. But Patrick, who barely had enough fuel to finish, was not discouraged.
I think what might have showed the most is that I was able to pass and I was able to learn how to set someone up better, she said. Yeah, I definitely got a lot of experience in different situations. So it was frustrating to be leading the race with so few laps to go and not be able to finish hard and just hang out up front and win the thing.
http://esporte.uol.com.br/velocidade/ultim...ult1647u93.jhtm
http://www.danicaracing.com :amuse:
<span style="color:red">Antes tinha igualado a melhor qualificação de sempre de um rookie... era de Montoya.... :weird::smile1::sick::embarrest::laugh::noworry:
Female rookie loses lead with 7 laps left because of fuel issues<!--sizec--><!--/sizec-->
Dan Wheldon takes a drink of milk after winning the 89th Indianapolis 500 on Sunday. Wheldon, 26, gave owner Michael Andretti his first Indy win.
Patrick stole the show at the Indianapolis 500, giving the guys a real run for their money and nearly grabbing the biggest purse in auto racing before finishing fourth.
<span style="color:yellow">The 5-foot-2, 100-pound rookie thrilled the 300,000 or so spectators at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway who spent much of the final 30 laps on their feet screaming and cheering as he she tried to pull off the biggest upset in 89 years of Indy history.
Englishman Dan Wheldon got to celebrate in Victory Lane and will pocket at least $1.5 million, but Patrick gave Americans a new hero to follow in a sport dominated in recent years by foreign drivers.
In fact, only 14 of the 33 starters in Sundays race were Americans.
May 29: Sensational rookie Danica Patrick talks about how much she learned in her first Indy 500, when she finished fourth.
After being the biggest surprise of the month turning some of the fastest speeds in practice and qualifying fourth the 23-year-old Patrick was almost good enough to take the checkered flag Sunday. She led three times for 19 laps and overcame a stalled engine in the pits and a crash on the track before a nearly empty fuel tank finally cost her this first shot at racing immortality.
I think that if I could have run full fuel ... well never know, she said, wistfully. You know, Id like to think that we could have maybe won it.
So much for the critics who said the tiny woman, who had never raced for more than 300 miles, would fade at the end of the long Indy event.
She did make those rookie mistakes, but Patrick wasnt so much upset by that as by the fact they put her back in the pack.
I came from the back twice, she said. That (stinks) back there. Its hard. I was so (much) more content running up front. It was much easier.
She got the lead late in the race by gambling on a long fuel run and staying on track when the other leaders pitted. And it looked like it was all over for Patrick when Wheldon passed her for the lead on lap 186.
But, with the crowd in a frenzy, she zoomed back on top on a restart on lap 190 and began to pull away until she was ordered to slow to conserve fuel. Her laps speeds dropped from 226 to 221.
Wheldon regained the lead on lap 194 and Vitor Meira and Bryan Herta also got past before the finish. But Patrick, who barely had enough fuel to finish, was not discouraged.
I think what might have showed the most is that I was able to pass and I was able to learn how to set someone up better, she said. Yeah, I definitely got a lot of experience in different situations. So it was frustrating to be leading the race with so few laps to go and not be able to finish hard and just hang out up front and win the thing.
http://esporte.uol.com.br/velocidade/ultim...ult1647u93.jhtm
http://www.danicaracing.com :amuse:
<span style="color:red">Antes tinha igualado a melhor qualificação de sempre de um rookie... era de Montoya.... :weird::smile1::sick::embarrest::laugh::noworry:
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