4/02/2007

IRL Crashfest

I just finished watching the IRL race from St. Petersburg and there seemed to be an awful lot of crashes. I'm glad to see Castroneves and Penske win one.  I'm not that fond of Chip Ganassi.  I think Dan Weldon is weird.  I heard Jimmy Vassar sum it up best.
He said, "There's no "I" in team, but there is in Chip."
Anyway, here are the results courtesy of motorsports.com:

Pos Car Driver Laps Gap Status
1.3Helio Castroneves100...
2.9Scott Dixon1000.6007
3.11Tony Kanaan1007.3123
4.26Marco Andretti1005.5960
5.27Dario Franchitti1001.0845
6.2Tomas Scheckter10010.7174
7.6Sam Hornish Jr1001.7613
8.7Danica Patrick1000.9656
9.10Dan Wheldon1006.3521
10.15Buddy Rice10012.5281
11.8Scott Sharp1001.1800
12.14Darren Manning991 lap
13.22AJ Foyt IV981 lap
14.17Jeff Simmons971 lap
15.5Sarah Fisher9741.8785
16.4Vitor Meira961 lap
17.55Kosuke Matsuura8313 laps
18.20Ed Carpenter4538 lapsAccident


By the way, Matsura got punted off the track and when he was being interviewed on live TV he said the "F" word. The announcers later apologized for it.