Milwaukee 225 Thoughts and Reactions.

Although Milwaukee was somewhat entertaining to most including myself, I thought it was pretty much a crash fest with Ganassi dominating for the most part again.

HVM Racing/Simona de Silvestro.

First of all if none of you are fans of Simona by now, I don't know when you will be.  My reasoning is simple, because even after six stitches on one knee, a bad bang to the head, and a broken rib, Simona de Silvestro attempted the next day to get in that ancient car and win a race. Although she wasn't out but maybe 10 laps she showed nothing will get in her way of trying to get out there and race. I will also give a thumbs up to HVM Racing because, even after everything that has happened during the crashes, that whole team works so hard in example the whole team worked non stop from the time of the crash to the early morning hours on that Sunday the Milwaukee 225 was held on.

On another positive note I would like to point out how well Newman-Haas Racing finished during the race with Oriol Servia in 3rd, and James Hinchcliffe(R) in 6th. Although the broadcast for the race actually ran over on ABC, I would have liked to seen Oriol's interview after the race instead of Dario's griping.

Ton Kanaan at Milwaukee. From:sports.yahoo.com

KV Racing had some good luck that quickly turned bad late in the race. E.J. Viso was safely in the top 5 for a good part of the race until he crashed on lap 163.  Also Tony Kanaan looked like he was going to win the race after leading 33 laps, but just lost it going into the front straightaway and crashed. Takuma Sato also had a good race until he had to serve a drive through penalty for hitting a crew member while pitting. How did they all finish? Kanaan-19th Viso-20th Sato-8th

Penske racing had a good turn out as usual with Helio Castroneves having some late race bad luck, with a tire loosing too much pressure. So under caution he had to go in for a pit stop, losing his first place position over Dario Franchitti. Also Helio led 31 laps. Will Power finished 4th, Helio finished 9th, and Ryan Briscoe finished 11th.

Graham Rahal, Dario Franchitti, and Oriol Servia celebrating on the podium after the Milwaukee 225.

Ganassi is still dominating. Dario Franchitti led the majority of the race with 161 laps. The big controversy belongs with Ganassi and Penske during some pit stops Dario hit the front right tire and crossed the pit box line of Will Power. Race Control gave no penalty to Dario, but many fans including me feel that he should have received that penalty for crossing Penske's pit box and hitting Penske's equipment. Dario went on finishing first, and Dixon finished 7th. Graham Rahal had a good race, staying in the top 10 the whole race and ended up finishing 2nd. Charlie Kimball finished a lap down in 14th.

Other interesting things to note.
The race attendance was horrible with an estimated attendance of around 13,000. I think IndyCar needs to come back next year, but not on Father's Day weekend, and they need to find a better event promoter.

The TV ratings for ABC's live telecast were at 0.9. At least it was higher than the ratings with Versus.