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Dan Wheldon Gets an exciting 500 miles of Indianapolis


What form of closing weekend. After an incredible Grand Prize of Monaco and a stunning finish in the Rally of Argentina, the Indianapolis 500 not be have been left behind and they have left us a precious spectacle. dhan weldon has been which has finally taken the victory in what is one of the most important tests of North America.
And it is that the career of the brickyard always brings surprises. You just have to see what changed after the overwhelming dominance of cars of the Ganassi team and an ill-timed, for them, flag yellow when there were only fifty laps to the end of the test.
Strategies from that moment were most many-colored and this led to many drivers chose the option of saving gasoline for trying to reach the ajedrezada flag without having to stop more often in boxes. This option appeared to benefit him the rookie, by own merits, the year that unfortunately ended empotrando when I was in second position.
The accident in the last curve of the final lap of Hildebrand left Dan Wheldon in a clear position for the victory. Something that did not escape the English pilot who thus added his second Indianapolis 500 in his career. For his part, Oriol servia starting in third position conducted a performance of more less and ended with a not inconsiderable fifth position.
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Oriol Serviá goes from the first line in the 100th anniversary of the 500-mile Indianapolis


Excellent result achieved in the Saturday, and ratified on Sunday on Bump Day (although not endangered his position), by Oriol Servia. In their third participation in the 500-mile Indianapolis, Servia won third place in the standings, allowing you to leave on Sunday in the front row behind the surprising poleman, Alex Tagliani, and Scott Dixon who ran out of gasoline in the last of the laps of his attempt.
But if ahead there were surprises, behind also any. Drivers Andretti Autosport, Ryan Hunter-Reay and Mike Conway (winner this season at Long Beach) and Raphael Matos failed to slip between the 33 posts that give rise to compete in the Indy 500. In the case of Mike Conway, the British returned to the layout in which last year suffered a terrible accident that had him in the dry dock for several months.
One of the curiosities of the Indy 500 in 2011, is that, as in 2010, there will be no less than four classified women. Simona Silvestro, Ana Beatriz, Pippa Mann and Danica Patrick won a place among the best during a Bump Day marked by the rain.

1 Alex Tagliani Sam Schmidt 227.472 mph
2 Scott Dixon Ganassi 227.340 mph
3. Oriol Serbia Newman/Haas 227.168 mph
4 Townsend Bell Sam Schmidt 226.887 mph
5 Will Power Penske 226.773 mph
6 Dan Wheldon Herta is mph
7 Buddy Rice Panther 225.786 mph
8. Ed Carpenter Sarah Fisher 225.121 mph
9. Dario Franchitti Ganassi
10. Takuma Sato KV 225.736 mph
11 Vitor Meira Foyt 225.590 mph
12 JR Hildebrand Panther 225.579 mph
13. James Hinchcliffe Newman/Haas 225.572 mph
14. Bertrand Baguette Rahal Letterman Lanigan 225.285 mph
15 Hamilton Davey Dreyer & Reinbold 225.250 mph
16. Helio Castroneves Penske 225.216 mph
17. John Andretti Petty/Andretti 224.981 mph
18 EJ Viso KV 224.732 mph
19 Bruno Junqueira Foyt 224.691 mph
20 Justin Wilson Dreyer & Reinbold 224.511 mph
21. Jay Howard Rahal/Schmidt 224.483 mph
22 Tomas Scheckter KV/SH 224.433 mph
23 Tony Kanaan 224.417 mph KV
24 Simona of Silvestro VMH 224.392 mph
25. Paul Tracy Dreyer & Reinbold 224.939 mph
26 Danica Patrick Andretti 224.861 mph
27 Ryan Briscoe Penske 224.639 mph
28 Marco Andretti Andretti 224.628 mph
29 Charlie Kimball Ganassi 224.499 mph
30 Graham Rahal Ganassi 224.380 mph
31 Alex Lloyd Dale Coyne 223.957 mph
32 Pippa Mann Conquest 223.936 mph
33 Ana Beatriz Dreyer & Reinbold 223.879 mph
Non classified:
Ryan Hunter-Reay AndrettiRaphael Matos AFSMike Conway AndrettiJames Jakes Dale CoyneSebastian Saavedra ConquestHo-Pin Tung Schmidt/Dragon