Tony Kanaan kept his hopes for a second IndyCar Series title alive, winning a wild Detroit Indy Grand Prix at the Raceway at Belle Isle.
Kanaan, who claimed his IndyCar Series-best fifth victory this season, stayed on the track while most of the leaders pitted during a late-race caution and was in front when IndyCar Series officials declared the race a timed event rather than its scheduled 90 laps due to the mandated 2 hour, 10 minute time limit for all road/street events.
But as the leaders raced on the next-to-last lap of the 89-lap event, the second-place car of Buddy Rice ran out of fuel, triggering a three-car accident that also involved IndyCar Series title contenders Scott Dixon and Dario Franchitti.
Danica Patrick avoided the wreckage to finish a career-best second. Dan Wheldon was third followed by Darren Manning and Kosuke Matsuura.
Despite the accident, which dropped Franchitti from fourth to sixth, he ended the day three points ahead of Dixon in the championship standings heading into the season-ending race at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Ill. Kanaan, 39 points behind his teammate, remains mathematically alive in the championship hunt.
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