Sam Hornish Jr edges out Marco Andretti for the Indy 500 victory

Yesterday's 90th running of the Indianapolis 500, described as the Greatest spectacle in racing lived up to its name creating the 2nd closest finishing of all time.

Just after 1 p.m., the green flag was in the air, the 500 played out early on with the two strongest teams of the 2006 season and the fastest all month long at the brickyard leading the way, third-fourth place Ganassi drivers Wheldon and Dixon jumped out to the lead over the two Penske racing boys and domanating throughout, after a couple of caution flags including one for Helio crashing and hitting the wall and anyother with a refueling problem on pitroad involving Sam Hornish Jr.'s crew resulting in a fuel spliling and IRL sending Hornish to the back for leaving to soon, the race would came down to pitstrategy and who would have enough fuel to make it to the end and who would have to do a splash for gas.

Michael Andretti and Sam Hornish Jr. both topped off after a caution flag and could go to the end without another stop, the final caution of the day came out with just under 10 laps to go with Michael Andretti staying out to take the lead and several other drivers pitting for either fuel or fuel and four-tires.. would it be a Andretti finish...with Michael staying out front on the final restart, it would be an Andretti trying for the victory, but it was the rookie Marco Andretti passing his father Michael going down the backstrentch and taking the lead with Sam Hornish Jr. quickly running him down, on the last lap with Marco leading down the frontstrentch, Hornish slipped screened to the inside and by less than 0.7 seconds, Sam Hornish Jr. edged out Marco for the victory.

What a finish and congrads to Sam Hornish Jr. for picking up his first Indianapolis 500 victory and what a race for the young rookie Marco Andretti who just got edged out at the end.

One thing cames to mind after hearing the WindTunnel question of the week, Is the Indianapolis 500 still 'The Greatest Spectacle in Racing'?

In my opinion, the Indianapolis 500 is one of the greatest spectacles in racing, but not "the greatest", simply there isn't one great anything really. There are a few greatest specticles in racing including the Daytona 500, Brickyard 400 and maybe even the Grand Prix of Monaco because Monte Carlo is the superbowl of Formula 1, but the Indianapolis is still at the top of the list.

Most people (non-racing fans) know what or have heard of the Indianapolis 500.

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