Helio Castroneves won the race by the second closest margin in IRL history. In a thrilling side by side run between Castroneves and Scott Dixon, Helio took the win by inches. Official timing and scoring took an additional 30 minutes to certify the finish. The victory margin was just .0033 seconds.
“I knew I won it, I knew,” he said. “We try everything, everything, to win. We did everything we could. Scott Dixon and those guys they had a little better luck and they wound up winning the championship. Congratulations to them.”
Scott Dixon’s Target Ganassi team needed to finish 8th or better to clinch the title.
“It’s been an amazing year, starting with marrying my beautiful wife, Emma, and just a great race season,” Dixon said.
“It was tough, especially when you’re racing around 10th. You’ve got people in front of you, people behind you and they’re all trying to do crazy things and it’s really tough to keep yourself calm and know that you’ve got the car to get to the front and just wait for a green-flag run to make it happen was happen was probably the hardest part.”
The folks at ABC/ESPN had a long day in motorsports coverage. Grumpy salutes all who worked to bring us the delayed events at Richmond and the IRL at Joliet.
How can the IRL put on such a great contest at Joliet and NA$CAR sucks there? I’m just askin’!
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