IndyCar Series - Wheldon wins!

IndyCar Series - official site Not a bad Indycar (formerly IRL) race last night. Obviously great to see Dan Wheldon getting off to a dominant start. It reminded me of a lot of races last year when he was clearly the class of the field by a mile - although he still only won 3 last year and one of those was a touch lucky. But credit where its due - it was a great win.

Low-light was an 8 car incident which took out much of the field. Kosuke Matsuura last control on a restart, largely as a result of trying to run 3 wide in the marbles on the outside on cold tyres. He really didnt stand a chance, but probably shouldnt have been there anyway.

Particularly a shame to see Danica Patrick's race ruined although again her attempt to escape the carnage by diving low and flooring the throttle was perhaps a touch ill advised.

The battle for second was fun too, with just two thousandths of a second splitting the 2nd to 4th placed cars. All in all a good start to the season.