Round 9: Firestone 600, Texas Motor Speedway, 10th-11th June, 2016.

[Purist]

I was hoping Helio could mix things up there at the finish. Then again, after those two close calls, he's probably feeling pretty good about getting fifth.

[canamman]

My goodness. What a week for Indycar.
I think I need to put an indy oval race on next years
calendar.

[jimclark]

Originally Posted by RWill2073

Restarting where they left off is arguably the most fair solution, but for the fans at the track and my selfish desire to see newgaarden and the others get a redo and see a full race tonight, I wish they'd restart from the beginning.

Hmmmm...I think you've got something there. We can start races over from scratch whenever they're not going our way. A novel idea. Sounds like where racing is heading anyway.

[D.R.T.]

Sensational race. Unbelievable spectacle and bravery but most of all skill

Sets Indycar apart. Great stuff

[bjohnsonsmith]

Result:

Good result for Honda, with two cars on the podium.

1 Graham Rahal, Rahal Letterman Lanigan. Dallara/Honda. 2h29m24.8886s
2 James Hinchcliffe, Schmidt Peterson Motorsports. Dallara/Honda. 0.0080s
3 Tony Kanaan, Chip Ganassi Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet. 0.0903s
4 Simon Pagenaud, Team Penske. Dallara/Chevrolet. 0.4773s
5 Helio Castroneves, Team Penske. Dallara/Chevrolet. 9.3424s
6 Charlie Kimball, Chip Ganassi Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet. 1 Lap
7 Carlos Munoz, Andretti Autosport. Dallara/Honda. 1 Lap
8 Will Power, Team Penske. Dallara/Chevrolet. 1 Lap
9 Juan Pablo Montoya, Team Penske. Dallara/Chevrolet. 2 Laps
10 Sebastien Bourdais, KVSH Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet. 2 Laps
11 Alexander Rossi, Andretti Herta. Dallara/Honda. 2 Laps
12 Marco Andretti, Andretti Autosport. Dallara/Honda. 3 Laps
13 Ryan Hunter-Reay, Andretti Autosport. Dallara/Honda. 3 Laps
14 Gabby Chaves, Dale Coyne Racing. Dallara/Honda. 3 Laps
15 Max Chilton, Chip Ganassi Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet. 5 Laps
16 Mikhail Aleshin, Schmidt Peterson Motorsports. Dallara/Honda. Contact
17 Jack Hawksworth, AJ Foyt Enterprises. Dallara/Honda. Contact
18 Ed Carpenter, Ed Carpenter Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet. Contact
19 Scott Dixon, Chip Ganassi Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet. Contact
20 Takuma Sato, AJ Foyt Enterprises. Dallara/Honda. Mechanical
21 Conor Daly, Dale Coyne Racing. Dallara/Honda. Contact
22 Josef Newgarden, Ed Carpenter Racing Dallara/Chevrolet. Contact

[fieldodreams79]

Sounds like another barn burner in Fort Worth, with lots of white knuckle action. Sorry I missed the finish but not the cringing at the television...

[NaBUru38]

That was intense, and scary.

[Lanky Turtle]

Two really exciting Indycar races in a row. The Texas race takes the cake for an exciting finish but I still liked the Pocono race a bit better. It's hard to completely enjoy the close racing when you're expecting a car to get launched up into the fence at any second. It's breathtaking when they get away with it but how many times can they get away with it? The past has shown not always.

[D.R.T.]

To be fair though - it was wheel to wheel racing but it wasn't like the IRL races of old. No one was stuck to the track or boxed into a corner - for example Rahal.

[bjohnsonsmith]

Originally Posted by NaBUru38

That was intense, and scary.

I agree and intense as it was, fortunately we don't see to much of that IRL style pack racing anymore.

[bjohnsonsmith]

http://classic.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/125952

Both Schmidt Peterson Motorsports and James Hinchcliffe have been penalised and SPM has been fined $20,000 after post race checks.

[Nikki Katz]

I don't understand, if Hinchcliffe was running an illegal car then why wasn't he disqualified? I just assumed that he was after I heard the news so was a bit surprised to not hear it being referred to in the broadcast of Watkins Glen other than how he nearly won. Kinda glad that Rahal got the victory now!

[NaBUru38]

IndyCar and Nascar don't exclude cars, which is rather unfair.