IRL: Indy 500 Results

It was an exciting Indy 500 with several incidents and drama surrounding who would win. That is until the final laps. At the close of the 500-miler, Helio Castroneves ran away from the field in the closing laps.

Dan Wheldon finished second, but the next biggest newsbreaker in the race was female driver Danica Patrick, who posted a career-best finish of third in the Indy 500. One or two more tweaks and she might have been the first lady to win American auto racing's biggest event.

Indy 500 Results

Finish	Start	Driver	Laps	Status	Avg Fin
1	1	Helio Castroneves	200	Running	6.11
2	18	Dan Wheldon	200	Running	9.00
3	10	Danica Patrick	200	Running	9.00
4	24	Townsend Bell	200	Running	12.00
5	9	Will Power	200	Running	9.00
6	5	Scott Dixon	200	Running	9.14
7	3	Dario Franchitti	200	Running	9.00
8	17	Ed Carpenter	200	Running	13.83
9	13	Paul Tracy	200	Running	5.50
10	16	Hideki Mutoh	200	Running	8.50
11	30	Alex Tagliani	200	Running	11.00
12	26	Tomas Scheckter	200	Running	17.25
13	11	Alex Lloyd	200	Running	19.00
14	20	Scott Sharp	200	Running	16.08
15	2	Ryan Briscoe	200	Running	13.25
16	19	Anthony Foyt IV	200	Running	17.00
17	21	Sarah Fisher	200	Running	25.38
18	27	Mike Conway	200	Running	18.00
19	28	John Andretti	200	Running	21.67
20	31	Milka Duno	199	Running	23.33
21	14	Vitor Meira	173	Accident	9.00
22	12	Raphael Matos	173	Accident	22.00
23	15	Justin Wilson	160	Accident	25.00
24	29	E J Viso	139	Mechanical	25.00
25	32	Nelson Phillippe	130	Accident	25.00
26	25	Oriol Servia	98	Mechanical	18.50
27	6	Tony Kanaan	97	Mechanical	14.25
28	23	Robert Doornbos	85	Accident	28.00
29	22	Davey Hamilton	79	Accident	14.22
30	8	Marco Andretti	56	Mechanical	14.75
31	4	Graham Rahal	55	Accident	32.00
32	33	Ryan Hunter-Reay	19	Accident	19.00
33	7	Mario Moraes	0	Accident	25.50
34		Alex Tagliani	0	Did Not Qualify	11.00
35		Buddy Lazier	0	Did Not Qualify	11.23
36		Stanton Barrett	0	Did Not Qualify

F1: Monaco GP Results

Is there any stopping Brawn Racing? Already the dominant force in not only Formula 1, but also the Unified Power Rankings (which is our attempt to compare all of the major series), Jenson Button has now won five of the first six races and he's going to pad his lead in those standings because the Monaco Grand Prix has a bonus attached to it as one of racing's marquee events.

Of course teammate Rubens Barrichello came in second, but that didn't catch anyone by surprise either.

Pretty much everyone held serve and finished close to where they started, with the exception of drivers like Heikki Kovalainen who crashed on lap 51 and slipped from seventh to 16th and Sebastian Vettel, whose stellar fourth-place qualification effort went for nothing when he wrecked on lap 15.

Monaco Grand Prix Results

Finish	Start	Driver	Laps	Status	Avg Fin
1	1	Jenson Button	78	Running	9.88
2	3	Rubens Barrichello	78	Running	8.41
3	2	Kimi Raikkonen	78	Running	9.44
4	5	Felipe Massa	78	Running	6.71
5	8	Mark Webber	78	Running	9.33
6	6	Nico Rosberg	78	Running	13.25
7	9	Fernando Alonso	78	Running	6.63
8	14	Sebastian Bourdais	78	Running	14.00
9	13	Giancarlo Fisichella	78	Running	9.64
10	19	Timo Glock	77	Running	11.00
11	16	Nick Heidfeld	77	Running	9.60
12	20	Lewis Hamilton	77	Running	5.00
13	18	Jarno Trulli	77	Running	11.38
14	15	Adrian Sutil	77	Running	16.33
15	10	Kazuki Nakajima	76	Running	11.00
16	7	Heikki Kovalainen	51	Accident	12.33
17	17	Robert Kubica	28	Brakes	8.00
18	4	Sebastian Vettel	15	Accident	11.50
19	12	Nelson Piquet Jr	10	Crash Damage	18.00
20	11	Sebastian Buemi	10	Accident	20.00

Castroneves wins Indy 500

Helio Castroneves won the 93rd Indy 500 in dominant fashion.

Our View: He was uncontested in the last segment, which took all the stress away from his fantasy owners.