Who had ignited the television when they only reduced 15 minutes so that she concluded a new competition of IRL, she had been glad thinking that the race just began, on the other hand that contemplated the test from the first moment could not think what happened in screen.
The certain thing is that the Indy Racing League offered an impressive definition with several cars of two in two battling by position to centimeters to be close with others. A spectacle that nor CART managed to reach in its improvements times and nor that to speak of present Formula 1.
Completely in the definition of the test, the champion Sam Hornish Jr freed a closed duel with Unser Jr in last the 22 returns, as soon as in front of other nine vehicles persecuted that it.
He hardly exceeded it with the front part of the automobile, to win by a 0,002 difference thousandth of second. An historical record for the second more popular category of the United States.
“It is really difficult to escape when one takes to the other vehicle alongside”, the Hornish champion said. “He is like a return at the terminal velocity”.
The North American Buddy Lazier finalized third and the Brazilian Castroneves Helium was quarter. Lazier tried one arriesgadísima maneuver in the last curve when it wanted to surpass to Hornish Jr. and Unser Jr by the outer side of the oval. Although it could not surpass to neither its anger was expressed to the maximum power.
“I thought it would overcome that it”, Unser Jr, that gained a similar duel in 1992, in the 500 Miles of Indianapolis said.
The victory also gave to Hornish the advantage in the competition by points, at least during this week. Hornish surpasses to Castroneves by 12 units, and the final race of the series is programmed for next Sunday, in the superoval of Texas. A definition that promises to be more spectacular than the one of nowadays, but already with an advantage in favor of the present champion of the series.
The Brazilian Gil de Ferran, that began the day to a point of Castroneves, is almost outside the dispute by the title, after crashing against the retaining wall in return 52. Of Ferran it was stunned and it was taken to a local hospital like preventive measure. Its car underwent a failure in the accelerator causing that the back wheels continued traccionando even though its machine lay destroyed on the wall of concrete. An image that it impressed to all the presents.
Hornish, that started from the first position, headed the competition in 102 of the 200 returns. Nevertheless, it and Castroneves went behind the American Scott Sharp in return 150.
Sharp had less fuel and had to leave the end to make a technical shutdown in return 151. It was a bad decision, since the Brazilian Airton Dare left the track four returns later, forcing that outside raised a yellow flag, that allowed to load fuel to Castroneves, Hornish and Unser in return 159.
Finally and to again rescue the action of the Brazilian rookie Vitor Meira (8º), and also the debut of Gives Wheldon (10º) to the steering wheel of a machine of the equipment Pennzoil Panther Racing.

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