![]() ![]() With the race running green to the end, Dixon finished outside the top-10. With Dixon off-sequence from a majority of the field, Dixon’s strategist, CGR managing director Mike Hull, elected to try and make the rest of the race without another stop, meaning they’d have to fuel-save pretty heavily and hope for another caution if they hoped even to make it to the end or have a shot at trying to battle for the win. With 40 laps to go, the New Zealander had retaken the race lead and pitted from the lead on Lap 162. Without another caution called in the rest of the first half of the race, it destroyed any realistic hope either had of aiming for an epic comeback.ĭixon managed to unlap himself by Lap 121, and with 50 laps to go, the 2008 Indy 500 winner had worked his way up to 20th. In all, the disaster put both cars one lap down. Both contenders lost significant time, as their teams tried to refire their cars and then make an extra stop to fully refuel. But their cars were so low on fuel that they stalled when stopping on pitlane. Alexander Rossi, who started 10th, was forced to do so one lap later. Drivers, including race leader at-the-time Rinus VeeKay, began pitting on Lap 30, and the placement of Wilson’s crash meant a closed pitlane while the AMR safety team attempted to clean up the mess.īy Lap 36, Sunday’s pole-sitter Scott Dixon was running on fumes and forced to pit for emergency fuel. What’s more important, though, was the timing. ![]() 28 car took an almost immediate hard right directly into the pitlane wall, bringing out the day’s first caution. The Andretti Autosport driver, who started 28th Sunday, slammed on the brakes, locked up his tires and subsequently lost control. ![]() Darting into pit lane for his first stop of the day, Wilson appeared simply to misjudge slowing down for the pit lane. Takuma Sato holds off Helio Castroneves, wins Indianapolis 500 Skip to main content Skip to navigation > Search You have reached ESPNs UK edition. Helio Castroneves, who had essentially been put out to Ind圜ar pasture. Stefan Wilson’s return to Ind圜ar and the Indianapolis 500 after a three-year absence ended unceremoniously on Lap 33. Kravitz With Helio Castroneves fourth Indy 500 win we were all soaking in the. 47 Ed Carpenter Racing Chevy, which led 40 laps during the first half of Sunday’s race, luckily didn’t suffer extreme damage and was able to carry on, but the miscue from his team and dose of bad luck mired him outside the top-10 by race’s end. The issue sent the 32-year-old spinning straight for the SAFER barrier, his tire still rolling around on-track.Ĭonor Daly, just a few laps after a significantly slow stop took him off the front, struck the tire with his nosecone. But four laps later, just moments after Rahal pitted, his left rear tire spun clear off the axle as Rahal accelerated out of the pits around Turn 2. With drivers all mixed up on pit sequences, Graham Rahal, last year’s 3rd-place finisher, took over the lead for the Rahal Letterman Lanigan team who won a year ago at IMS with Takuma Sato. ![]()
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