Sam Hornish Jr. and Dario Franchitti by the sight before enjoyed much his animated to battle eight days in the track of Nashville, as much that they decided to in the last repeat it turns of the ABC Supply Co. /A.J. Foyt 225, in the legendary “Mile” of Milwaukee.
Whereas in the trioval of Nashville Franchitti it prevailed over Hornish, in Milwaukee was twice the champion Sam Hornish here who on two ocassions exceeded the Scottish pilot, to gain an impressive own victory of its aggressive conductivo style.
Hornish had to draw for a pair of dramatic situations gain the victory. To 38 returns of the end the North American touched with his teammate Castroneves Helium, that tried to surpass it by the external line. The car of Castroneves left dismissed against the wall, while Roger Penske tried to calm to the Brazilian pilot via radio.
After the incident between Hornish and Castroneves, the green flag fluttered when only they reduced 28 turns ahead. By that then, the trio of Andretti Green Racing, Dario Franchitti, Tony Kanaan and Dan Wheldon, occupied the three first positions.
During the imposed period of precaution after which Buddy Rice hit in return 167, the square Andretti Green Racing decided to maintain to Franchitti and the present champion of the Indy series, Tony Kanaan, in the track, while the rest of the leaders of the race went to pits, among them Hornish.
It seemed that the strategy would work for the Franchitti Scot, defending champion in Milwaukee and that it gained the week last in Nashville, but when the green flag fluttered, Hornish with fresh tires was exceeding one by one the pilots of Andretti Green Racing, until capturing the leadership in turn 203 of 225. The amble of Hornish to Franchitti was incredibly dangerous, to the point of which both cars were close in the heat of straight.
But two turns later, the car of Hornish went very above to the point to clear the wall with the back tire straight, allowing Franchitti to escabullir itself ahead. But Hornish was certain to gain the race, and returned to surpass to Franchitti in turn 217.
“The Penske equipment gave a great car today to me”, said Hornish, whose second victory of catapulted it to the season to the second place in the positions. “I fought much today. I really wanted to win after the small problem that we suffered with Helium. I would not like to repeat this experience. I feel truly badly by Helium. When it is run so near another rival, these things can happen.”
Castroneves repaired its car and returned to the race to finish 16º. Castroneves did not show resentments by the shock, to such point that joked on the same.
“I only hope that Sam gives half me of the money of the premiums”, Castroneves joked, that on a par took of its teammate for the second time this season. “It is a shame for the equipment, but sometimes these things happen and are part of the competition. The good news are that Sam was able to gain the race.”
The put second of Franchitti is the best thing to which the Scot could aspire, after running the last returns with the tires very worn away and very little combustible in its tank.
“Sam committed an error to very little of the end and I thought that it could win again”, Franchitti said. “But my engineer suggested to me saves fuel if he tried to arrive in the end. I believe that the pilots of Penske today were much more fast that we.”
Scheckter takings arrived third party after fitting escapes to Tony Kanaan (4º) in the final turns, whereas the leader of the points, Give Wheldon, crossed the goal in fifth position.
With the temperatures exceeding the 30 degrees Celsius, were several collisions, among them one carried out by the Danica novice Patrick, who was unharmed.
Both pilots of the equipment Fernandez Racing, property of the Mexican Adrián Fernandez, the American Scott Sharp and the Japanese Kosuke Matsuura finalized in positions 10 and 11, respectively.

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