Click on Helio Castroneves for a high res gallery
As the first season of the reunited IndyCar series winds down, the open wheel racers took to the Belle Isle track to close out the Detroit Grand Prix weekend. Scott Dixon sat on the pole holding a slim lead over Helio Castroneves in the season standings with three races to go including this one. If the race is still sitting on your DVR and you don’t want to spoil the surprise, just enjoy the gallery for now, it won’t spoil your appetite. Otherwise follow the jump for the results.
Photos Copyright ©2008 Sam Abuelsamid / Weblogs, Inc.
Scott Dixon grabbed the pole, and both Dixon and Castroneves pulled away strongly for the first 18 laps, leaving the rest of the field in their wake. An incident on lap 17 between Dixon’s teammate Dan Wheldon and Jamie Camara triggered a full course yellow. The Ganassi team decided to bring Dixon in for an early pit stop, but no one followed. As a result, Dixon was never able to regain the lead, although he did ultimately climb back up to fifth place at the finish.
Castroneves continued to lead the pack for majority of the race, but eventually Justin Wilson made his way into the lead in the Newman-Hass-Lanigan car. Through the last ten laps Castroneves tried repeatedly to reel in Wilson, but never quite managed, and over the last three laps, the rookie (at least in these cars) pulled away by a few seconds, finally taking the checkered flag in a fitting tribute to his car’s co-owner Paul Newman, who’s health has been in question over the past few weeks.
Photos Copyright ©2008 Sam Abuelsamid / Weblogs, Inc.
1 | Justin Wilson | 02 | D/H/F | 4 | 102.008 | 87 | 1 | 15 | Running | 50 |
2 | Helio Castroneves | 3 | D/H/F | 2 | 102.412 | 87 | 2 | 53 | Running | 43 |
3 | Tony Kanaan | 11 | D/H/F | 8 | 101.756 | 87 | 0 | 0 | Running | 35 |
4 | Oriol Servia | 5 | D/H/F | 3 | 102.136 | 87 | 1 | 1 | Running | 32 |
5 | Scott Dixon | 9 | D/H/F | 1 | 103.090 | 87 | 1 | 18 | Running | 30 |
6 | Ryan Hunter-Reay | 17 | D/H/F | 7 | 102.151 | 87 | 0 | 0 | Running | 28 |
7 | Bruno Junqueira | 18 | D/H/F | 24 | 90.442 | 87 | 0 | 0 | Running | 26 |
8 | Will Power | 8 | D/H/F | 12 | 0.000 | 87 | 0 | 0 | Running | 24 |
9 | Ryan Briscoe | 6 | D/H/F | 5 | 101.942 | 87 | 0 | 0 | Running | 22 |
10 | A.J. Foyt IV | 2 | D/H/F | 17 | 100.231 | 87 | 0 | 0 | Running | 20 |
11 | Hideki Mutoh | 27 | D/H/F | 16 | 100.838 | 87 | 0 | 0 | Running | 19 |
12 | Darren Manning | 14 | D/H/F | 15 | 100.348 | 87 | 0 | 0 | Running | 18 |
13 | Graham Rahal | 06 | D/H/F | 6 | 101.186 | 87 | 0 | 0 | Running | 17 |
14 | Ed Carpenter | 20 | D/H/F | 20 | 98.956 | 87 | 0 | 0 | Running | 16 |
15 | Mario Moraes | 19 | D/H/F | 19 | 100.048 | 86 | 0 | 0 | Running | 15 |
16 | Danica Patrick | 7 | D/H/F | 10 | 100.817 | 86 | 0 | 0 | Running | 14 |
17 | Vitor Meira | 4 | D/H/F | 14 | 101.157 | 83 | 0 | 0 | Running | 13 |
18 | Marco Andretti | 26 | D/H/F | 13 | 100.482 | 81 | 0 | 0 | Mechanical | 12 |
19 | Buddy Rice | 15 | D/H/F | 18 | 99.232 | 76 | 0 | 0 | Mechanical | 12 |
20 | Dan Wheldon | 10 | D/H/F | 11 | 100.803 | 64 | 0 | 0 | Running | 12 |
21 | Tomas Scheckter | 12 | D/H/F | 26 | 0.000 | 56 | 0 | 0 | Running | 12 |
22 | Alex Tagliani | 36 | D/H/F | 21 | 97.233 | 54 | 0 | 0 | Mechanical | 12 |
23 | Milka Duno | 23 | D/H/F | 23 | 94.226 | 46 | 0 | 0 | Handling | 12 |
24 | E.J. Viso | 33 | D/H/F | 9 | 101.339 | 32 | 0 | 0 | Contact | 12 |
25 | Jaime Camara | 34 | D/H/F | 22 | 97.152 | 16 | 0 | 0 | Contact | 10 |
26 | Marty Roth | 25 | D/H/F | 25 | 0.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | DNS | 5 |