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The English Gives Wheldon managed to contain a ferocious attack of Danica Patrick to gain this Sunday their more important victory, and about which all pilot dreams in his life, the 500 miles of Indianapolis.
Wheldon shared the traditional milk bottle with the owner of its equipment, Michael Andretti, whom the curse” of the Andretti in this track exorcised “. His Mario father only managed to gain this race in 1969. From that moment the luck seemed to avoid to the Andretti family. Michael competed 14 times in this race, and he never could gain it. To this it obtained it time like owner of his own equipment.
Wheldon snatched the leadership to him to Danica Patrick, the surprising girl of 23 years that it looked for to become the first woman in gaining the mythical race, when they only reduced six returns for the end.
“This it is a dream made reality”, said Wheldon, the leader of the championship of the IndyCar series and now with four victories in the season. “From boy I have admired the 500 miles. The best pilots, the best equipment of the world are here”.
“It is a result very just. Personally this place always me has been aloof. But it had a premonition of which this was going to finish someday, and this finally has happened. We hope that this is often repeated more”, commented Michael Andretti.
Wheldon consolidated its triumph a return before the 200 programmed, due to a yellow flag raised by the accident of the French Sebastien Bourdais in the penultimate turn.
Secondly it was the Brazilian Vitor Meira, in great action, followed by Bryan Herta and the young person and ascendant Patrick, who descended until the fourth position after to remain without fuel in the last return.
Wheldon is English aircraft commander who wins in Indianapolis from the triumph of Graham Hill in 1966.
In order to secure this flattery, it had to make him against the tenacity of Patrick, in the Motor track of Indianapolis Speedway. Patrick committed two expensive errors, but equal he managed to be placed in the end to eight returns of the end, when it remained in track general resupply in the last.
Patrick finalized in the fourth place, the best result secured by a woman in the history of the famous circuit. The best action previously of a woman in the 500 miles, had been the ninth position of Janet Guthrie in 1978.
The young pilot of 23 years by hand maintained a electrizante hand with experimented the English Wheldon in last the 21 returns to the oval of 2.5 miles.
After brief shutdown in pits, Patrick assumed end of race until reducing 14 Wheldon turns it took advantage of the confusion brought about by the breakage a rim in the car of the Japanese Kosuke Matsuura, that was crossed in the track, to go away in front of the squad.
But Patrick did not drain itself, and with 10 returns to close he returned to take the control, under gritería of the fanatics and while the television cameras showed their mother fervently saying in the carps of rest of the pilots.
Patrick forced his bolide to the maximum to maintain the pressure of Wheldon, but this wine of back exceeded and it when as soon as they reduced 24 kilometers to cross until the goal.
The exigencies of Patrick left him without sufficient fuel in the final section and the young novice was exceeded successively by Meira and Herta. The unforeseen circumstance accident of the champion of Champ Car, Bourdais, that until that then completed a decent action saved, it to be more back in the test.
“I demonstrated that she was a novice by the things that I did, but I am proud of my equipment and of my action”, it limited Patrick.
After leaving the fourth site and happening to be the first woman in leading a race in Indianapolis, Patrick gypsy dialect the motor of his car in pits in turn 79, and descended to position 16.
Patrick did not lose the head, recovered positions and he was placed eighth until he committed another error, when the cars were relocated after a yellow flag.
The novice accelerated other her car and did I spin a top. Its car crashed against the bolide of Scott Sharp. The car of Patrick made some pirouettes more and was struck by the one of the also inexperienced Enge Takings. Scheckter takings managed to avoid to strike Patrick and it went against the inner wall. Incredibly the car of Patrick resisted the impact and the front nose was only broken.
Throughout the previous month to the race the attention center had been Patrick, as soon as the fourth woman in competing in Indianapolis.
On the other hand Adrián Fernandez, in its return to the series, finished 14º after undergoing mechanical problems that prevented the Mexican pilot to obtain a good result. Fernandez gained two positions in the starting of the competition, but quickly first shutdown in pits fell until position 22 in his, after crique hydraulic engineer was broken.
Tuve a good starting. It felt contentment to me with the car, but soon it was begun to feel small change. We made a change in ours first shutdown in pits and there I had a good period of race, we were quite competitive. After that, the car was completely bad. Too much loose felt, could not handle it, was too slow. We made some adjustments in the shutdowns of pits, but it improved it to nothing. It knew that something was bad, because the car did not feel normal. I want to congratulate to Give Wheldon and to Honda by its victory today , commented Mexican Fernandez.
Buddy Lazier, winner of the 1996 edition, arrived fifth, followed by the Scot Dario Franchitti, Sharp and the Brazilian Tony Kanaan, that position left from pole. The Brazilian Castroneves Helium was the other pilot who managed to complete the race.

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