It was a beautiful weekend here in Wisconsin. After a Saturday of sucking down some brew and enjoying a bit of Rehorst Vodka, Sunday was a day for working out in the yard and hanging with the family. The viewing of the Indy 500 was limited to say the least. The racing I did see was good. It didn’t look like a runaway win for anybody which is good for the spectators. This race, like NASCAR, is all about strategy except part of the strategy is to avoid the rubbing that NASCAR fans so enjoy. One thing NASCAR doesn’t have is the lovely ladies that can drive the wheels of the cars. Of the 3 women that started, only Milka Duno finished the race running. To their credit, Sarah Fisher and Danica Patrick both crashed out of the race but neither crash was caused by them. Danica was running near the top 10 at the time of her crash which was caused by another driver fish tailing out of his pits.
Here’s how the field ended up:
| 1 | Scott Dixon Target Chip Ganassi Racing |
9 | D/H/F | 1 | 0.000 | 200 | 1 | 2 | Running | 53 |
| 2 | Vitor Meira Delphi National Guard |
4 | D/H/F | 8 | 0.000 | 200 | 0 | 0 | Running | 40 |
| 3 | Marco Andretti Team Indiana Jones presented by Blockbuster |
26 | D/H/F | 7 | 0.000 | 200 | 0 | 0 | Running | 35 |
| 4 | Helio Castroneves Team Penske |
3 | D/H/F | 4 | 0.000 | 200 | 0 | 0 | Running | 32 |
| 5 | Ed Carpenter Menards/ Vision Racing |
20 | D/H/F | 10 | 0.000 | 200 | 0 | 0 | Running | 30 |
| 6 | Ryan Hunter-Reay Rahal Letterman Racing Team Ethanol |
17 | D/H/F | 20 | 0.000 | 200 | 0 | 0 | Running | 28 |
| 7 | Hideki Mutoh Formula Dream |
27 | D/H/F | 9 | 0.000 | 200 | 0 | 0 | Running | 26 |
| 8 | Buddy Rice Dreyer & Reinbold Racing |
15 | D/H/F | 17 | 0.000 | 200 | 0 | 0 | Running | 24 |
| 9 | Darren Manning ABC Supply Co./AJ Foyt Racing |
14 | D/H/F | 14 | 0.000 | 200 | 0 | 0 | Running | 22 |
| 10 | Townsend Bell Dreyer & Reinbold William Rast Racing |
99 | D/H/F | 12 | 0.000 | 200 | 0 | 0 | Running | 20 |
| 11 | Oriol Servia Angie’s List Special |
5 | D/H/F | 25 | 0.000 | 200 | 0 | 0 | Running | 19 |
| 12 | Dan Wheldon Target Chip Ganassi Racing |
10 | D/H/F | 2 | 0.000 | 200 | 1 | 5 | Running | 18 |
| 13 | Will Power Aussie Vineyard-Team Australia |
8 | D/H/F | 23 | 0.000 | 200 | 0 | 0 | Running | 17 |
| 14 | Davey Hamilton Hewlett-Packard/KR Vision Racing |
22 | D/H/F | 18 | 0.000 | 200 | 0 | 0 | Running | 16 |
| 15 | Enrique Bernoldi Sangari Conquest Racing |
36 | D/H/F | 29 | 0.000 | 200 | 0 | 0 | Running | 15 |
| 16 | John Andretti Roth Racing |
24 | D/H/F | 21 | 0.000 | 199 | 0 | 0 | Running | 14 |
| 17 | Buddy Lazier Hemelgarn Johnson |
91 | D/H/F | 32 | 0.000 | 195 | 0 | 0 | Running | 13 |
| 18 | Mario Moraes Sonny’s Bar-B-Q |
19 | D/H/F | 28 | 0.000 | 194 | 0 | 0 | Running | 12 |
| 19 | Milka Duno CITGO / Dreyer & Reinbold Racing |
23 | D/H/F | 27 | 0.000 | 185 | 0 | 0 | Running | 12 |
| 20 | Bruno Junqueira Z-Line Designs |
18 | D/H/F | 15 | 0.000 | 184 | 0 | 0 | Running | 12 |
| 21 | A.J. Foyt IV Lilly Diabetes/Vision Racing |
2 | D/H/F | 31 | 0.000 | 180 | 0 | 0 | Running | 12 |
| 22 | Danica Patrick Motorola |
7 | D/H/F | 5 | 0.000 | 171 | 0 | 0 | Contact | 12 |
| 23 | Ryan Briscoe Team Penske |
6 | D/H/F | 3 | 0.000 | 171 | 0 | 0 | Contact | 12 |
| 24 | Tomas Scheckter Symantec Luczo Dragon Racing |
12 | D/H/F | 11 | 0.000 | 156 | 0 | 0 | Mechanical | 12 |
| 25 | Alex Lloyd Rahal Letterman with Chip Ganassi |
16 | D/H/F | 19 | 0.000 | 151 | 0 | 0 | Contact | 10 |
| 26 | EJ Viso PDVSA HVM Racing |
33 | D/H/F | 26 | 0.000 | 139 | 0 | 0 | Mechanical | 10 |
| 27 | Justin Wilson McDonald’s Racing Team |
02 | D/H/F | 16 | 0.000 | 132 | 0 | 0 | Contact | 10 |
| 28 | Jeff Simmons ABC Supply/Foyt Racing |
41 | D/H/F | 24 | 0.000 | 112 | 0 | 0 | Contact | 10 |
| 29 | Tony Kanaan Team 7-Eleven |
11 | D/H/F | 6 | 0.000 | 105 | 0 | 0 | Contact | 10 |
| 30 | Sarah Fisher Sarah Fisher Racing |
67 | D/H/F | 22 | 0.000 | 103 | 0 | 0 | Contact | 10 |
| 31 | Jaime Camara Sangari |
34 | D/H/F | 30 | 0.000 | 79 | 0 | 0 | Contact | 10 |
| 32 | Marty Roth Roth Racing |
25 | D/H/F | 33 | 0.000 | 59 | 0 | 0 | Contact | 10 |
| 33 | Graham Rahal Hole in the Wall Camps |
06 | D/H/F | 13 | 0.000 | 36 | 0 | 0 | Contact | 10 |
The highlight of the day.. Former MotoGP Wolrd Champ Nicky Hayden showing off his bike and skills before the race..
Nicky also suited up in the retro garb and ran around on a 1909 Indian…..Way cool.
Blog Thoughts: I would like to see the who city of Indianapolis move to somewhere in Texas. Why you ask. The racers all ran 100% ethanol and Texas has banned the use of biofuels……. I really got tired of seeing the commercials and hearing about how wonderful ethanol is…. Reality… IT’S CRAP!!!!!
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1 Ick // May 28, 2008 at 11:45 am
Lajitas and I were able to block off a few hours on sunday to watch the race. When Danica Patrick got hit in pit row.. when she finally got out of her car, she was hot, and walked down pit row to chew someone a new one! Classic!!!!
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