Dario Franchitti won his second Indianapolis 500 Mile Race under the yellow caution flag

Dario Franchitti won his second Indianapolis 500 Mile Race under the yellow caution flag. No matter, the winning milk still tasted just as good.

Franchitti, who led 155 of the 200 laps, became the 19th multi-time winner of “The Greatest Spectacle In Racing” and his boss, Chip Ganassi, the first owner to win Indy and NASCAR’s Daytona 500 in the same year.
Dan Wheldon, the 2005 winner who closed furiously as Franchitti slowed to save fuel in the final laps, was second for the second straight year, with Marco Andretti, third. Alex Lloyd was fourth, followed by Scott Dixon in fifth.
Franchitti, low on fuel, was heading to the Yard of Bricks when the Ryan Hunter-Reay and Mike Conway made contact between Turns 3 and 4. Conway’s car went airborne and made contact with the catch fence. Conway, who waved to the crowd as he was being taken off the track, was airlifted to Methodist Hospital with leg injuries.
Polesitter Helio Castroneves saw his quest for a record-tying fourth Indy victory come to an end with an uncharacteristic mistake — stalling while leaving the pits on the 146th lap. It left him in need of a yellow-flag miracle at the end that never came, and he finished ninth after one last pit stop on the 193rd lap.

Dario Franchitti won his second Indianapolis 500 Mile Race and the winning milk still tasted just as good.

CHIP GANASSI (Owner, Target Chip Ganassi Racing): (About significance of being first owner to win Daytona 500 and Indianapolis 500 in the same year): “I’ll think about that later. I want to congratulate Dario. I want to thank everybody who put together this team. It was a little dicey there at the end, on fuel at the end. He saved fuel when he had to.”
DARIO FRANCHITTI (Winner, 2010 Indianapolis 500): “I was just thinking. This tastes just as good second time. Up until 10 laps to go, I was pretty relaxed. Then all hell broke loose with fuel savings and all. I just needed to know what the other guys were doing. If they were saving more than me, they were doing something special here. This means so much. To come back after going away for a year, win a championship and win the Indy 500. Thank you. Thank you to everyone on Team Target.”