ROUNDUP: Franchitti overcomes pit mishap for IRL win
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FOUNTAIN, Colo. -- Dario Franchitti shook off a potentially dangerous pit mishap to win the IRL&#39;s Honda 225 Sunday at Pikes Peak International Raceway.
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THE best news was rookie Champ driver and Australia&#39;s hope in the Indy 300 David Besnard brought the car back without a scratch.
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INDIANAPOLIS -- When the rain-shortened 91st Indianapolis 500 finally was called on Lap 166 yesterday, and Dario Franchitti was declared the winner, Tony Kanaan wasted little time scrambling out of his cockpit.
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FOUNTAIN, Colo. (SportsTicker) - It appears Dario Franchitti is getting the hang of the Indy Racing League. Franchitti dominated Sunday&#39;s Honda Indy 225 at Pikes Peak International Raceway for his second IRL win of the season.
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A trouble-free day for Franck and Giancarlo as they completed almost 200 laps of Barcelona.
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A closer look at the data from Sundayâs race shows Fernando full deserved his third place at the Hungaroring after a flawless drive.
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Smart pit strategy puts Jeremy Mayfield in the driver&#39;s seat, while other contenders drop out. By BRANT JAMES, Times Staff Writer.
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Dario Franchitti squeezed out a half-lap more than Scott Dixon on their final fuel load yesterday to win his first IndyCar Series title in what may be his farewell to open-wheel racing. Franchitti and Dixon came into the season finale at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Ill., with Franchitti leading the standings by 3 points. Franchitti overtook Dixon on the final lap to win by 1.844 seconds. He won the title and the $1 million prize that goes with it by 13 points.
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At the end of the 2005 IndyCar season, Dario Franchitti had to do some soul searching. The Scotsman had come back from two serious injuries and won 15 open-wheel races while competing first in CART and then in the rival IndyCar Series. But he was no longer looking forward to getting into the race car.
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They traded laughs over chips and salsa at the ESPN Zone, and later they were going to take pictures. Things will get serious Sunday, when one of the tightest IRL series championships is decided at the PEAK Antifreeze Indy 300 at Chicagoland Speedway.
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Adrian Fernandez beat Bryan Herta by 0.0716 of a second at the Delphi Indy 300 yesterday in Joliet, Ill., for his second victory in a month, but it was overshadowed by a scary crash late in the race that sent Buddy Rice&#39;s car skidding upside down along
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JOLIET - Adrian Fernandez had a difficult time in the pits but overcame his problems with pit strategy Sunday in winning the Delphi 300 Indy Racing League event at Chicagoland Speedway.
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Austria's Andrea Fischbacher and Switzerland's Fabienne Suter share a victory in a super-G in Sestriere, Italy, that is shaped by varying wind and several crashes.
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TALLADEGA, Ala. - Dale Earnhardt Jr. was nearly perfect on the racetrack. His only slipup Sunday came during a postrace television interview.
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Leading all but nine laps Saturday, pole-sitter and season points leader Dario Franchitti wins his first IndyCar Series race at Richmond.
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Bruno Junqueira won Sunday&#39;s Lexmark Indy 300 ahead to retain hopes of winning the Champ Car title. The Brazilian&#39;s Newman-Haas team-mate Sebastian Bourdais needed to win seven more points than Junqueira in Surfers Paradise to secure the title.
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A Formula One paddock is a place full of rigid conventions and double meanings, intrigue and gossip. For a young driver, itâs hard to make it through unscathed, but Franck Montagny has established himself in this demanding environment.