Wheldon wins Indy 500 as Hildebrand crashes at last corner | IndyCar

29 May 2011 by Keith Collantine

2011 Indianapolis 500

Dan Wheldon won the Indianapolis 500 for the second time after a dramatic end to the race.

JR Hildebrand led at the beginning of the last lap but crashed at the final corner of the race while lapping Charlie Kimball.

Hildebrand?s car skidded down the straight on two wheels as Wheldon passed him to claim a shock victory.

The Ganassi cars of Dario Franchitti and Scott Dixon led much of the way, but came unstuck on fuel strategy later in the race.

Franchitti made what should have been his final pit stop on the same lap as Hildebrand. But he failed to make it to the end of the race without a further stop and had to make a ?splash and dash? stop with one lap to go.

Hildebrand passed him for second place, which became the lead when Bertrand Baguette pitted.

Graham Rahal fought his way up from 29th to finish third ahead of Tony Kanaan, who started 22. Kanaan?s KV Racing team mates Takuma Sato and Ernesto Viso crashed out within the first 18 laps.

Front row starters Oriol Servia and Scott Dixon were fifth and sixth ahead of Baguette, who made his final pit stop on lap 197 of the 200-lap race.

Tomas Scheckter, Marco Andretti and Danica Patrick completed the top ten.

It was an emotional victory for Wheldon who first won the Indianapolis 500 in 2005, the same year he won the championship. But he found himself without a full-time drive at the start of this year and today?s race was his first start of the IndyCar season.

The season continues with its first ever double-header meeting at Texas in two weeks? time.

Result

	Driver	Difference	Gap	Grid	Reason
1	Dan Wheldon			6
2	JR Hildebrand	2.1086	2.1086	12
3	Graham Rahal	5.5949	3.4863	29
4	Tony Kanaan	7.487	1.8921	22
5	Oriol Servia	8.8757	1.3887	3
6	Scott Dixon	9.5434	0.6677	2
7	Bertrand Baguette	23.9631	14.4197	14
8	Tomas Scheckter	24.3299	0.3668	21
9	Marco Andretti	25.4711	1.1412	27
10	Danica Patrick	26.4483	0.9772	25
11	Ed Carpenter	27.0375	0.5892	8
12	Dario Franchitti	56.4167	29.3792	9
13	Charlie Kimball	1 Lap	1 Lap	28
14	Will Power	5.8513	5.8513	5
15	Vitor Meira	21.9398	16.0885	11
16	Justin Wilson	39.0811	17.1413	19
17	Helio Castroneves	49.618	10.5369	16
18	Buddy Rice	2 Laps	1 Lap	7
19	Alex Lloyd	25.561	25.561	30
20	Pippa Mann	41.0417	15.4807	31
21	Ana Beatriz	3 Laps	1 Lap	32
22	John Andretti	7.7129	7.7129	17
23	Ryan Hunter-Reay	34.2306	26.5177	33
24	Davey Hamilton	7 Laps	4 Laps	15
25	Paul Tracy	25 Laps	18 Laps	24
26	Townsend Bell	43 Laps	18 Laps	4	Contact
27	Ryan Briscoe	0.1089	0.1089	26	Contact
28	Alex Tagliani	53 Laps	10 Laps	1	Contact
29	James Hinchcliffe	101 Laps	48 Laps	13	Contact
30	Jay Howard	140 Laps	39 Laps	20	Contact
31	Simona de Silvestro	156 Laps	16 Laps	23	Handling
32	Ernesto Viso	173 Laps	17 Laps	18	Contact
33	Takuma Sato	180 Laps	7 Laps	10	Contact

Image ? Larry Seidman

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