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Hélio CASTRONEVES won the prestigious INDY 500 for the fourth time

The 140-year-old from Sao Paulo celebrated with a smart ride in front of XNUMX spectators at the famous oval. Second place went to Alex Palou, third to Simon Pagenaud.

Brazilian he secured the victory two laps before the finishwhen he managed to overtake the hitherto leading Alex Palou and keep the advantage to the finish line despite the crowd in the last lap. With the fourth win, he did Helio Castroneves finally entered among the giants of the 500 miles of Indianapolis, as with four victories (he celebrated in 2001, 2002 and 2009) at the very top equaled the legends such as Anthony Joseph FoytAl our in Rick mears.

He started from the pole position Scott Dixon (Chip Ganassi Racing), but led only three laps before overtaking him Colton herta. While Herta and the Dutch young man Rinus VeeKay alternated in leadership, is Dixon save fuel, which seemed like a good tactical decision if you didn’t spin at the entrance to them Stefan wilson, as a result of which the import into the pits was closed for several rounds, Dixon however, it ran out of fuel during the stop itself.

A round later, the same fate befell her Alexander Rossi and both former winners lagged behind the round and hopes of victory were more or less over.

This year’s race took place before 140 thousand spectators, which is forty percent of the full capacity of the racetrack. The biggest incident in the race otherwise happened in 119th roundwhen he was leading at the time Graham rahal drove into the pits, and when replacing the rear left wheel, the mechanics did not tighten it properly, which Rahal immediately after leaving the pits crashed into a walland the bike rolled off and hit the car Conor Daly.

Za Castroneves in I'm flying he placed third simon pagenaud, among the racers who have ever competed in Formula 1 before, ranked 9th Juan Pablo Montoya. Marcus Ericsson was 11th, last year’s winner takuma sato finished in 14th place, rookie Pietro fittipaldi however, he overtook former team racer Toro Rosso in 25th place. Sebastien Bourdais.

Helio Castroneves led relatively few laps (20), but was at the top when it was most important.

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