June 5, 2009

IRL: Texas' last five races

After posting three consecutive top-fives from St. Petersburg through Kansas Speedway, Tony Kanaan has had two horrible weekends in the Indy Racing League with finishes in the 20s in the Indy 500 and at the Milwaukee Mile. Last week, he entered the flat one-mile oval with a near perfect record on that track during the last five years before crashing barely 12 races into the event. Now, he has another chance to rebound. At Texas Motor Speedway, he's finished seventh or better in his last five tries.

Helio Castroneves has actually been stronger in recent seasons. Except for a crash in 2007, he would have swept the top five since the fall 2004 race, having won twice and posting a second-place finish.

Dan Wheldon posted the fastest time in Friday's session and he too has to be considered a serious contender this week. Like Castroneves, he had a bad 2007 race, but has finished sixth or better four of his last five attempts.

Average finish, last five races
DriverAvg. Fin20082007200620052004.2
Tony Kanaan3.852732
Helio Castroneves 5.0216151
Adrian Fernandez5.0



5
Hideki Mutoh6.06



Sam Hornish Jr6.0
14217
Scott Sharp 6.0
7548
Dan Wheldon6.2415363
Vitor Meira6.275694
Scott Dixon6.41122116
Mark Taylor7.0



7
Ryan Briscoe7.53

12
Townsend Bell9.0



9
Danica Patrick9.51031213
Dario Franchitti10.0
413815
Sarah Fisher10.0
10


Jeff Simmons10.5
615

Kosuke Matsuura10.8
98719
Graham Rahal11.011



Tora Takagi12.0



12
Bryan Herta12.3

111016
Will Power13.013



Felipe Giaffone 13.5

16
11
Tomas Scheckter 13.6251410118
E J Viso14.014



Milka Duno14.01711


Alex Barron14.0


1414
Anthony Foyt IV14.31217
1810
Buddy Rice15.088182120
Bruno Junqueira15.015



Roger Yasukawa15.0


15
Ed Carpenter15.491892021
John Andretti16.016



Patrick Carpentier16.0


16
Tomas Enge16.0


1913
Eddie Cheever Jr17.0

17

Marco Andretti17.3191914

Mario Moraes18.018



Buddy Lazier 19.0

19

Darren Manning19.32813
17
Ryan Hunter-Reay20.020



Jon Herb20.0
20


Mario Dominguez21.021



Marty Roth22.022



Jimmy Kite22.0


22
Enrique Bernoldi23.023



Jaime Camara24.024



Oriol Servia26.026



Justin Wilson27.027



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