Kentucky Indy 300 Review.

Overall the race was great, but I wish more people were there to view on of the greatest races in IndyCar Series history.

A little too much action in the pits. 
There was a couple of big incidents in the pits on Sunday leaving a few drivers out of the race. First Simona de Silvestro's clutch broke, causing her to go into EJ Viso's pit stall, hitting chief mechanic Darrin McMahon. Darrin was then sent flying about 15ft away from where he was hit, and he fractured his knee from that incident. Simona would then have to stay out of the race a couple laps later due to reoccurring clutch problems. Then under caution another incident in the pits happened when JR Hildebrand's(R) brakes locked up when pulling into his pit, and hit tire changer Erik Scheumann causing lower leg injuries. In that same accident Marco Andretti and Alex Lloyd were hit and knocked out of the race to.

• Other accidents. 

The only other accident was when Ana Beatriz hit the wall in turn 4 and made contact with Will Power. The only driver put out of the race was Ana Beatriz though.

How the whole field did.

Ed Carpenter celebrating his first IndyCar Series win with his daughter McKenna. From:SPEEDTV.COM

What really made the race exciting was Ed Carpenter and Dario Franchtti battling for first place the last 20 laps of the race. The whole time they were neck to neck. Although Ed Carpenter never seemed to be able to pass Dario for the lead, but overall Ed Carpenter had the better car, and won the race. This was the first win for both Ed Carpenter and Sarah Fisher Racing. Hopefully both of them will have more wins in the future. Dario Franchitti went on to finish second, and teammate Scott Dixon finished third. Newman/Haas teammates James Hinchcliffe(R)  and Oriol Servia finished 4th and 6th. Other notable results were Ryan Hunter-Reay in fifth, Wade Cunningham(R) in seventh, and Buddy Rice in ninth.

Sarah Fisher Racing/Ed Carpenter loose sponsorship.
In an interview after the race Sarah Fisher announced that Dollar General has said they will not be back as the team's sponsor next season. Hopefully this win will convince Dollar General to come back and support the team through the 2012 season.


Poor Race attendance/TV Ratings. 
The race attendance for Kentucky was maybe around 20,000. If this race comes back, they will need a better plan to promote the race. TV Ratings for the Versus broadcast were around 188,000. This shows how IndyCar needs to find a better channel to advertise their races on TV, maybe NBC?

What I thought about the facility and this race needs to come back next year.
No Kentucky is not the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, but this is still a top notch racing facility that IndyCar needs to come back to. I was impressed with the fact that I could actually see the whole track. Finding a good place to sit in the track isn't a problem, because you can see the whole thing from just about anywhere you sit. This is another action packed oval that needs to come back in 2012.