Brazilian Helio Castroneves became the sixth driver to claim a hat-trick of Indy 500 wins with victory in the 2009 running of the prestigious race.
The 34-year-old pulled away over the final laps to finish ahead of Britain’s 2005 champion Dan Wheldon.
Third-placed Danica Patrick claimed the best-ever Indy 500 finish by a woman.
Scotland’s 2007 winner Dario Franchitti, who started on the front row after qualifying third fastest, came home in seventh place. BBC Sport
Castroneves, who led 66 laps — second to Dixon’s 73 — took the lead for the final time on lap 142, passing Dixon just after a restart for cleanup of Nelson Phillipe’s accident. His race manager, Tim Cindric, told him to save fuel but the radio problems kept Castroneves from hearing the lap count.
“So I’m like, ‘OK, forget it, keep going.’ I didn’t even ask the lap time that the second place (Dan Wheldon) was doing. So at that point, I was just trying to finish the race.”
As Castroneves sailed toward the checkered flag, 2005 winner Wheldon and Danica Patrick waged their own battle. On the final restart on lap 182, Patrick pulled along side Wheldon and thought she would make the pass. pjstar
Results Sunday of the Indianapolis 500 IndyCar Series event May 24 at the 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway, with order of finish, starting position in parentheses, driver, chassis-engine, laps completed and reason out (if any). Prize money to be announced May 25:
1. (1) Helio Castroneves, 200, Running
2. (18) Dan Wheldon, 200, Running
3. (10) Danica Patrick, 200, Running
4. (24) Townsend Bell, 200, Running
5. (9) Will Power, 200, Running
6. (5) Scott Dixon, 200, Running
7. (3) Dario Franchitti, 200, Running
8. (17) Ed Carpenter, 200, Running
9. (13) Paul Tracy, 200, Running
10. (16) Hideki Mutoh, 200, Running
11. (33) Alex Tagliani, 200, Running
12. (26) Tomas Scheckter, 200, Running
13. (11) Alex Lloyd, 200, Running
14. (20) Scott Sharp, 200, Running
15. (2) Ryan Briscoe, 200, Running
16. (19) A.J. Foyt IV, 200, Running
17. (21) Sarah Fisher, 200, Running
18. (27) Mike Conway, 200, Running
19. (28) John Andretti, 200, Running
20. (30) Milka Duno, 199, Running
21. (14) Vitor Meira, 173, Contact
22. (12) Raphael Matos, 173, Contact
23. (15) Justin Wilson, 160, Contact
24. (29) E.J. Viso, 139, Mechanical
25. (31) Nelson Philippe, 130, Contact
26. (25) Oriol Servia, 98, Mechanical
27. (6) Tony Kanaan, 97, Contact
28. (23) Robert Doornbos, 85, Contact
29. (22) Davey Hamilton, 79, Contact
30. (8) Marco Andretti, 56, Handling
31. (4) Graham Rahal, 55, Contact
32. (32) Ryan Hunter-Reay, 19, Contact
33. (7) Mario Moraes, 0, Contact
Race Statistics
Winner’s average speed: 150.318 mph
Time of race: 3:19:34.6427
Margin of victory: 1.9819 seconds
Cautions: 8 caution flags for 61 laps
Lead changes: 6 among 4 drivers
Lap leaders: Castroneves 1-7, Franchitti 8-52, Briscoe 53-63, Dixon 64-85, Franchitti 86-90, Dixon 91-141, Castroneves 142-200.
Point standings: Franchitti 122, Castroneves 117, Briscoe 114, Dixon 111, Kanaan 110, Patrick 109, Wheldon 106, Power 99, Hunter-Reay 84, Andretti 83.
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