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[Easy Drifter]

As an old racer I say the call was completely and absolutely-------BS.
Good grief there is far more blocking every race and was this one further back.
Guess Brian wanted to upstage the F1 contraversy.
Time for him to go. Maybe F1 and the Stewards are not so bad after all.

[Will Rogers]

I think that if Will Power would say Helio was blocking, that says volumes. He's not the sort to complain about something that he didn't think happened, and he's also a pretty good teammate and wouldn't implicate a teammate in something that wasn't legit.

To my eye, the block wasn't so much on the approach to the corner but the way Helio drove Will off line on the exit--Helio had red tires and because they slowed considerably he could have easily have held his line in the corner. But he drifted way left, cutting Will off, which also allowed Dixon to come up the inside to take 2nd. Dixon was on black tires and did a better job of holding the line in the turn than Helio.

I'm glad IndyCar finally called blocking on someone, and did it to someone of note--not EJ Viso or Scheckter.

[Scotty G.]

I didn't think it was in the rules that either Helio or Danica could be actually penalized for blocking.

Both are two of the biggest offenders in the sport. And have always been.

Whether you do it at that point in the race, is the biggest question.

But did Helio block? Of course. He's damn good at it. And he finally got called on it.

[SoCalPVguy]

Here are the final results...

1. #9 Scott Dixon
2. #12 Will Power
3. #10 Dario Franchitti
4. #6 Ryan Briscoe
5. #37 Ryan Hunter-Reay
6. #15 Paul Tracy
7. #32 Mario Moraes
8. #8 EJ Viso
9. #5 Takuma Sato
10. #3 Helio Castroneves
11. #26 Marco Andretti
12. #11 Tony Kanaan
13. #2 Raphael Matos
14. #36 Bertrand Baguette
15. #7 Danica Patrick
16. #14 Vitor Meira
17. #06 Hideki Mutoh
18. #19 Alex Lloyd
19. #24 Tomas Scheckter
20. #4 Dan Wheldon
21. #22 Justin Wilson
22. #78 Simona De Silvestro
23. #77 Alex Tagliani
24. #34 Mario Romancini
25. #18 Milka Duno

Top 15 finish for your girl !!! Niiiiice.

[SoCalPVguy]

If I wasn't about done with Indycar before this race, I am now !!!!

Note to Barney the officious wannabe mall cop --- IT'S RACING YOU IDIOT !!!!

Take your politically correct statist centralized control and shove it !!!! People don't watch the races to see the chief steward... Geeze this make ICS look like bozos and World Wrestling like a real sport.

[TURN3]

Well, another shocking story of the race... Sato actually finishes a race...lol

No, what was shocking was that all 3 of KV's clowns didn't tear up a single car all weekend. Viso did his best to keep the circus gates open though with that move on Simona.

[TURN3]

All this controversy has overshadowed some awesome performances. Simona was legit until Viso hit her. She would've been top 10 even yet until they ran her our of fuel. Too bad but she showed well and that means a ton.

Part Time PT also showed what he's capable of. Again, watched his in car the entire race and KV has to be seriously wondering at this point why they don't drop at least one of their morons and build their program around PT for a year or two. The guy can race and with the best of them...still, today, 40+ or not, part time or not, and with KV at that!! Give him 2 full seaons and he'll win a race or two here or there. Too bad Briscoe ran him off on that restart or he's 4th (5th really, Helio won).

[call_me_andrew]

But did Helio block? Of course. He's damn good at it. And he finally got called on it.

Hell no he didn't block! To block someone, you have to swerve to stay in front of him. Power was to Elio's left before the "move" so it was not a block. This is worse than that blown call at the end of Armando Galarraga's perfect game because Barnhart, unlike the umpires in MLB, has the luxury of replay.

[Hoss Ghoul]

Embarrasing.

And unbelievable.

[00steven]

Blocking calls are B.S. anyway, there shouldn't be penelties for blocking unless it results in a wreck or they run the person all the way down the track. That being said Helio did block but as I said it shouldn't have been a penalty.

I'm just glad Scott won instead of Power.