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In a end of film the American Sam Hornish defeated in the same line of sentence his teammate, the Brazilian Castroneves Helium, to gain this Saturday XM the Satellite Radio Indy 200 (Phoenix, Arizona), second date of the 17 races of the serial IRL IndyCar Series.
Hornish crossed the goal as soon as a second in front of Castroneves, to adjudge 13º triumph of its race and to give escudería Penske Racing its first 1-2 of the year.
“It has been a hard way to retake the winning footpath”, said Hornish, that had gained for the last time in Homestead-Miami 13 months back. “My strategy was to maintain me far from the problems and he has not been simple because the series this more and more competitive and nobody yields nor a millimeter of track.”
For his Castroneves companion it has not been a dissapointing result, and one was happy by the work done by both. “It has been wonderful! ”, Helium exclaimed. “Incredibly even éramos Sam and I, reason why have been a right and exciting battle. I am glad for and by all the Penske equipment that so lasts he has worked. My special gratefulness to Toyota by its work and determination in this new motor.”
The victory of Hornish brought with himself an enormous commotion, since when finalizing the race the Scot Dario Franchitti protested that the North American of Penske had blocked him untimelily his track.
Before the maneuver of Hornish, Franchitti almost loses the dominion of its vehicle, in fact it cleared the wall, and it had to retake by a parallel footpath to the containment horse armor.
The Scot also protested to him to his companion in the equipment Andretti Green Racing (AGR), the Briton Give Wheldon, his lack of cooperation in the strategy of the race.
Franchitti led 52 of the 200 returns in the oval of Phoenix, but in the middle of race it lost the leadership before Hornish because Wheldon did not yield the step to him, although the Briton took a whole return of delay. An unexpected attitude between companions of a square where it seems, or rather seemed, to reign the harmony.
“I in the last gave to everything of my part re-start”, said Franchitti. “It knew that only they reduced two returns and was necessary to risk. Also I feel satisfied with to have finished 4º, it could have been much worse…”, ended up saying the Scot ironically, in relation to the maneuver of Hornish.
Twice the champion of the category, the Brazilian Tony Kanaan, overcame the problems that forced to change the motor of their machine after the classification of Friday, and finalized 3º in spite of to have left from position 21 grilla to begin with.
Meanwhile the Danica novice Patrick concluded a race of IndyCar for the first time. She did in the position 15º to six returns of the Hornish North American. Although it has not been an outstanding action for the young girl, she has demonstrated to own regularity and cold blood in the two dates passed until the moment.
The North American Scott Sharp, of the equipment Fernandez Racing, arrived 5º in his race nº 100 of IndyCar Series.
Who was until this date leader of the contest, They give Wheldon, only lost the leadership at the hands of Hornish by 6 points. 3º position of the table shares Castroneves Helium and its compatriot Tony Kanaan.

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