Hello and
welcome back to my blog. You can just
look at the box-score below or feel free to read a summary and my opinions.
| Finish |
Start
|
Name
|
1
|
2
|
Ryan Hunter-Reay
|
2
|
6
|
Tony Kannan
|
3
|
8
|
James Hinchcliffe
|
4
|
20
|
Oriol Servia
|
5
|
5
|
E.J. Viso
|
6
|
4
|
Helio Castroneves
|
7
|
13
|
Alex Tagliani
|
8
|
22
|
Ed Carpenter
|
9
|
11
|
Graham Rahal
|
10
|
3
|
Rubens Barichello
|
11
|
21
|
Scott Dixon
|
12
|
14
|
Will Power
|
13^
|
7
|
Simon Pagenaud
|
14^
|
19
|
Ryan Briscoe
|
15^
|
9
|
Marco Andretti
|
16^
|
25
|
Mike Conway
|
17^
|
15
|
Charlie Kimball
|
18^
|
18
|
Kathrine Legge
|
19*
|
1
|
Dario Franchitti
|
20*
|
24
|
Takuma Sato
|
21*
|
16
|
James Jakes
|
22*
|
10
|
JR Hilderbran
|
23*
|
12
|
Justin Wilson
|
24*
|
23
|
Simona de Selvestro
|
*=Did Not Finish ^=Laps
Down
Ryan
Hunter-Reay came to victory lane for the first time this season in the high
passing and controversial race. The
high passing came yet again from Oriol Servia who continues his long steak of
high passing races with a gain of 16 positions from 20th to 4th. The conterversey came from a restart where
many drivers passed to early including Scott Dixon, but the restart was waved
off. The next time around the drivers
did better and they took the green.
Scott Dixon was given a penalty for passing early, however multiple days
after the race it was found that the computer had glitches and the replay that
was looked at to give Dixon the penalty was the restart that had been waved
off. This drive through penalty could
not be taken back especially three days after the race when he had already
taken the point standings toll back to 3rd behind James Hinchcliffe
in 2nd and Will Power in 1st.
There were
many drivers who were expected to do well who didn’t. Dario Franchitti, the pole-sitter, was a fan favorite who had a
wreck and finished 19th. Justin
Wilson was also hoping for a strong finish to follow up his Texas win and
started it out by him and Josef Newgarden being the two fastest in
practice. He then had mechanical
problems and was out of the race by lap 93.
Josef Newgarden had already had mechanical problems on lap 48.
Tony Kannan who was a big pick for
coming to victory lane at Milwaukee had an acceptable finish in 2nd. Nobody expected Ryan Hunter-Reay to come to
victory lane on Saturday, even after a strong qualifying of 2nd. He did enjoy himself in victory lane after a
hard 225 laps.
See you
soon with Pre-Qualifying predictions.
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