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IRL Notes: Carpenter Comes Up Short
September 7th, 2010
SPARTA, Ky. — Considering that Ed Carpenter began the season without a full-time ride in the IZOD IndyCar Series, a second-place finish at Kentucky Speedway for the second year in a row would be cause for celebration.
But after he started on the pole and led twice for 11 laps, Carpenter felt unsatisfied to finish second behind Helio Castroneves Saturday night.
“I think Dan (Wheldon) and I can say we probably had the best cars in the race, but the best car doesn’t always win,” Carpenter said. “That’s racing. It’s one of those things. They (Castroneves and Team Penske) kind of got forced into that strategy, so that’s just the way it goes sometimes. It was his night. It was meant to be. But I am a little bummed out. My spotter was talking to me telling me where Dan was, and for a second I thought when I cycled in front of him we were going to win, and then when I came down the frontstretch I looked up at the pylon and I saw No. 3 up there, and I was just praying he was going to run out of fuel, but it didn’t happen.
“I think that is why you would think we’d be happier with both of us on the podium, but with the weekend we had, I think we were expecting for one of us to win the race.”
Carpenter won the pole Friday afternoon with a fast lap of 217.933 miles per hour around the 1.5-mile oval.
- Saturday night was the 200th race in Indy Racing League history so in honor of this event, a large cake with the IZOD IndyCar Series logo was presented to IndyCar Series President of Competition Brian Barnhart on Friday afternoon. Barnhart was part of the staff for that first race at Walt Disney World Speedway on Jan. 27, 1996, when Buzz Calkins defeated a young USAC driver named Tony Stewart with Robbie Buhl third.
- Tony Kanaan started 26th in the 27-car field, but passed 10 cars on the first lap. He challenged for the lead, but ended up finishing fourth for Andretti Autosport.
“It was a great race,” Kanaan said. “I promised my fans on Twitter that I was going to pass 11 cars on the first lap and I only got 10, so I want to apologize to all of my ‘followers’ that I couldn’t do it. But, it was a great race. I worked with Marco (Andretti) and Ryan (Hunter-Reay) so well; it was fun. Congratulations to Helio, but I don’t really like strategy races.I think Dan (Wheldon) deserved this one, but it is what it is.”
He used to be one of the most jovial drivers in the paddock but Kanaan has been scowling and irritable lately. He finished fifth last Saturday night at Chicagoland Speedway and then criticized the “dangerous style” of racing on the high-speed oval.
- Panther Racing driver Dan Wheldon was in front three times for 93 laps — the most of any driver in the race. But Wheldon’s bid at victory ended just five laps before the checkered flag when he had to pit for fuel in order to make it to the finish. He finished third behind his teammate Ed Carpenter, who drove a combined Vision Racing/Panther Racing entry, and race winner Helio Castroneves.
“I think first and foremost, the whole Panther Racing team has done a phenomenal job, to bring the two cars that they did, sent me to these last few races, they performed very well,” Wheldon said. “And I think having Ed on board, not only has it been a great working relationship that we seem to share, but I think that the teams really have gelled very well, and I think that their game has been raised because of that. So it’s been a fantastic addition.”
- Team IZOD driver Ryan Hunter-Reay started last in the 27-car field after he crashed on his qualification attempt on Friday. He nearly crashed on the first lap when he tried to avoid Takuma Sato, who smacked the wall on lap one to bring out the first yellow flag. Hunter-Reay did a complete spin, but did not hit anything and was able to continue in the race. He finished 21st.
“We had a great day going,” Hunter-Reay said. “We went from 27th to the top five and were just biding our time. I liked the clean air there, working with my teammates. We tucked in line, were just waiting to fight it out at the end and had a problem in the right rear that ended our night. It’s unfortunate. The IZOD guys did a great job all weekend. After we had the incident on Friday, for them to put a car out there that could run back up to the front says a lot about the team and the guys working on the car.”