Race Day--April 1, St. Pete.
Catch-up from the ALMS race: Alan McNish & Rinaldo Capello kept the Audi R10 TDi win streak alive with the overall win at St. Petersburg. The duo fought back from a stop-and-go penalty and put the 12 cylinder diesel powered car in Victory Lane. Penske Racing won the LeMans Prototype 2 class with Saacha Maassen and Ryan Briscoe.
More to come, plus some pictures, later.
Helio Castroneves (top) won from the pole and beat Scott Dixon by 6/10ths of a second to win his 2nd consecutive Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. "Spiderman" climbed the fence after notching his 18th career win in Indy Style cars. Castroneves led 95 laps, but had to nurse a balky gearbox...and fight off charges from Dixon, Tony Kanaan, and Marco Andretti. Of Penske Racing's 133 wins in Indy style cars, 51 have been on street/permanent road courses. Don't cry for Dixon; his 2 consecutive second place finishes put him in the IndyCar series point lead with 80.
That's it for this weekend; next week we'll join you from "Glitter Gulch"--downtown Las Vegas--for the Champ Car World Series season opener.
Paul Kaminski
04/01/2007
