The Scot and leader of the match Darío Franchitti presented dominated of principle to aim the SunTrust Indy Challenge by XM, disputed in the small oval of Richmond, of only 1.21 kilometers (0.75 miles), turns which it into the smallest track of the IndyCar series.
“I am enjoying much this”, said the Scottish pilot. “I believe that this oval adjusts a little style”, it ended up saying Dario, and it is not for less since 5 of their 7 victories were in short ovals.
In addition this triumph is the consecutive second of the Scot, since the past week prevailed in Iowa.
Franchitti, whose position in the classification of the championship was worth the first position to him when the classification round was suspended in rain, only yielded twice the leadership and that in visits to pits under the precaution flag. Its victory was sealed when a delayed flag allowed him to conserve fuel and to leave without problems when they were six returns.
This was the third victory of the season and the eighth consecutive time in which Franchitti finishes between the first five, apart from which he is the leader of the square Andretti Green Racing and determines a mark by the greater number of returns like leader to the history of the series.
Franchitti increased its score with its victory, turns that it into first into winning in Richmond with a previous victory, like this in one crushes cuts, the oval of Iowa.
Scott Dixon finished second and also it increased his score, being to 65 of the leader. They give Wheldon was third party and Tony Kanaan in the quarter, and now they share the third place in points, to 72 of Franchitti. The programmed race was the novena of the 17 for the season, that virtually is half.
Franchitti said during the classification round that was good that it rained, because its automobile was not well and soon it expressed that an attempt of last hour from its engineers gave good results in the race.
“I am not going to enter in detail, but it worked”, said.
On the other hand the pilots of the Penske equipment carried out a competition for the forgetfulness. Sam Hornish Jr realized I spin a top to seconds of to have released the test product of its cold tires. In spite of not having lost the return, Hornish never could reclaim the lost land and arrived more in distant position 15 at 2 returns of Franchitti.
Castroneves helium was penalized when touching one of the dividing yellow strips of the track when it left pits. The Brazilian had to journey to march reduced by pits under green flag, which motivated that it lost a turn. Finally he arrived eleventh.
The Venezuelan Milka Duno last was when having to leave in return 79 by mechanical failures in her Dallara/Honda.

Source: AP
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