As if a hurricane one was, the ex- champion Gives Wheldon at night pulverized to their rivals this Saturday in the opening of championship 2007 of IndyCar Series, disputed as it is custom in the oval of Homestead-Miami.
The British pilot, champion of the series in 2005 and present pilot of Target Chip Ganassi Racing, dominated the 200 returns voluntarily, to such point that 5 cars only arrived in the return of the leader. Not even the champion Sam Hornish Jr, of the Team Penske, could with the speed of the car of the Briton after have started off from the first row of grilla.
Wheldon added his third victory in the track of Homestead after recovering of an erroneous shutdown of supplying to add his twelfth victory of by life in the series. The errors of pits from the mechanics of Target Chip Ganassi Racing were a constant throughout 2006, to such point that Wheldon lost a pair of victories by such reason.
This time during a resupply under yellow flag, the mechanics dropped the car of Wheldon on one of the pneumatic pistols. Luckyly Wheldon was not penalized, but it returned to track in the middle of the table. One by one the Briton went escaping to his rivals until supplanting his coequiper Scott Dixon of the leadership. From both they were encolumnaron there to separate quickly of the rest of the competitors. Finally the Briton crossed the goal more than 6 seconds of advantage on Dixon.
“This it is a step forward towards the 500 miles of Indianapolis”, said Wheldon, that gained that race and the title in the 2005. “I am totally concentrate in the 500 of Indianapolis, nothing else interests to me. But also it is good for having three consecutive triumphs in the same track”.
The Team Penske underwent a duro cachetazo from the men of Ganassi. The Hornish champion arrived third party at more than 17 seconds of Wheldon, whereas Castroneves Helium seemed absent in the test finalizing ninth, to 1 return of the winner.
Vitor Meira returned to have an outstanding action arriving quarter, whereas Tony Kanaan represented the best position of the powerful equipment Andretti Green Racing, being fifth.
Ed Carpenter, Dario Franchitti, Scheckter Takings, Helium Castroneves and Buddy Rice completed the ten best ones classified, all of them to a turn of Wheldon.
For rookie 2006 of the match, Andretti Frame, this was not its day. The young pilot only underwent problems in the transmission after twelve returns of race. “I cannot need exactly that it happened, but is very dissapointing for all the mechanics who worked so it last in these months of receso.”
Much worse Patrick in his debut in the equipment Andretti Green Racing went to him still to the Danica youngster. In right return 155 and when it entered to the zone of pits, Danica lost the tail of its car and ended up hitting against the wall of pits.
“I am so ashamed”, began saying Danica. “One thinks that this type of things never can happen to him to one, but I was mistaken, I blocked the back tires of the car and that was everything. I feel much by all the equipment.”
The other feminine representative, SARAH Fisher, arrived eleventh but to 5 returns of the winner They give Wheldon. The feminine Navy will increase to three representatives from the competition of Kansas, when the Venezuelan Milka Duno makes debut in the series.
Rain was a constant throughout the night of race delaying the beginning of the same in almost one hour. During the race they returned to fall some drops that maintained the test under yellow flag during 32 returns.
The IRL IndyCar Series only returns to the action within one week for the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, next the 1 of April.

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