The Associated Press: Danica Patrick wins Japan 300 to make IndyCar history

The Sporting Blog found this 4/20/2008 on ap.google.com [flag]

9 hours ago MOTEGI, Japan (AP) Danica Patrick became the first female winner in IndyCar history Sunday, taking the Indy Japan 300 after the top contenders were forced to pit for fuel in the final laps. Patrick finished 5.8594 seconds ahead of pole-sitter Helio Castroneves on the 1.5-mile Twin Ring Motegi oval after leader Scott Dixon pitted with five laps left and Dan Wheldon and Tony Kanaan ... [link]

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Lady...kind, Taking 4:20 Back
Published 4/20/2008 at The Sporting Blog
[image] Think it's a coincidence that mere hours after the Ladies... drop the news that they're bringing a new force to the blogosphere that Danica Patrick strikes a powerful blow for women everywhere by winning her first race as a professional driver? I don't. And maybe today is set aside for, um, ...

Danica Patrick Wins IndyCar Race in Japan
Published 4/20/2008 by rcade at SportsFilter
Danica Patrick Wins IndyCar Race in Japan : Danica Patrick became the first female winner in IndyCar history Sunday, taking the Indy Japan 300 when leader Helio Castroneves was forced to pit for fuel in the final laps. The 26-year-old driver won in her 50th IndyCar start. "She's rocketed herself to the top end of the roll call for most successful female racing drivers ever," writes ...

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Schedules: Indy Japan 300/Long Beach Grand Prix

chrisestrada posted 4/16/2008 from mvn.com

A very unique weekend in American open-wheel racing begins tonight at 9:30 p.m. ET with IndyCar practice at Twin Ring Motegi in Japan...

Twin Ring Motegi: IndyCar Drivers “All Shook Up!”

Rover found this 4/17/2008 on fullthrottle.cranialcavity.net

Copyright © 2008 Full Throttle . All Rights Reserved. If you are not reading this in a news reader, the website you are viewing it on is guilty of copyright infringement. Please report this site through the contact link on Full Throttle . (digital signature: 77c297e756c9103df2e56b4f36cce0ae) A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck northern Japan early Thursday morning (Wednesday evening est) and ...

Danica Patrick scores first IndyCar Series win

chrisestrada posted 4/20/2008 from mvn.com

Danica Patrick made history last night at Twin Ring Motegi as she took her long-awaited first IndyCar victory in the Indy Japan 300. MVN's Chris Estrada has a recap...

Danica Patrick (Finally) Wins IndyCar Race

Posted 4/20/2008 on Gossip On Sports - The Latest Dish On and Off the Field

Danica Patrick doubters take note: She’s not just a pin-up gal and Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue hottie . And now she’s not the Anna Kournikova (title-less during her singles career) of racing because Danica Patrick won an IndyCar race . The 50th time proved to be the charm for Patrick, who nabbed the Indy Japan 300 victory at Twin Ring Motegi on Saturday. The win marks ...

Long Beach GP updates starting at 4 p.m. ET!

Posted 4/20/2008 on Indy Racing Revolution

On the heels of Danica Patrick’s historic win last night at Twin Ring Motegi, the Champ Car World Series will go into history today with the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. The farewell race will begin at 4 p.m. ET, with live coverage beginning at 3:30 p.m. ET on IndyCar.com, IMS Radio Network stations and XM Channels 144 and 145. ESPN2 will carry the race on delay starting at 5:30 ...

The waiting is over!

Posted 4/20/2008 on Rev' Jim's RantsnRaves

We knew it was about to happen, and we knew, from the start of the current season, that it would happen soon. Danica Patrick became the first woman to win in a major racing series on a closed racing circuit! Most of us missed the historical event from Twin Ring Motegi, in Japan. We can't blame it on ABC/ESPN this time, because the race was postponed, and the network had commitments to air ...

Danica Patrick wins Indy Japan 300

Posted 4/20/2008 on Unrestricted: My Nascar Rants & Raves

MOTEGI, Japan (AP)—Danica Patrick became the first female winner in IndyCar history Sunday, taking the Indy Japan 300 after the top contenders were forced to pit for fuel in the final laps. Patrick finished 5.8594 seconds ahead of pole-sitter Helio Castroneves on the 1.5-mile Twin Ring Motegi oval after leader Scott Dixon pitted with five laps left and Dan Wheldon and Tony Kanaan came in a lap ...

FLASH! Danica No Anna Kournikova!

Posted 4/20/2008 on Full Throttle

Copyright © 2008 Full Throttle . All Rights Reserved. If you are not reading this in a news reader, the website you are viewing it on is guilty of copyright infringement. Please report this site through the contact link on Full Throttle . (digital signature: 77c297e756c9103df2e56b4f36cce0ae) Danica Patrick used a fuel gamble to take a historic victory in the delayed Twin-Ring Motegi round ...

Danica Patrick wins at Twin Ring Motegi

Posted 4/20/2008 on 18 to 88

See I do a post about the IRL and look what happens later that day? Danica Patrick became the first woman to win an Indy Car race tonight by passing Helio Castronoves with two laps remaining in the Firestone Indy 300 in Motegi, Japan. This is a huge moment for the Indy Car series. 19 year-old phenom Graham Rahal gets his first career win last week in St. Petersburg and the newly unified ...

Danica Patrick wins Indy Japan 300!

Posted 4/20/2008 on Indy Racing Revolution

Danica Patrick emerged as the last driver standing in a game of fuel mileage and as a result, she has finally won her first IndyCar Series race. As the leaders of the race continued to go into pit road to take final top-offs of fuel, Patrick took the lead from Helio Castroneves with three laps left and managed to hang on to win the Indy Japan 300 at Twin Ring Motegi. In tears as she emerged ...

Weepers win the day, postpone Indy Japan 300

Posted 4/19/2008 on Indy Racing Revolution

IRL officials have given official word to postpone today’s running of the Indy Japan 300 at Twin Ring Motegi due to water seeping through the asphalt at Turn 4. While several areas on the 1.5-mile oval had this issue at one point or another, it appeared that the main focus of IRL and TRM officials was in T4, where the worst of the “weepers” was situated. Unfortunately, ...

Track problems delay start of Indy Japan 300

Posted 4/19/2008 on Indy Racing Revolution

Yesterday’s rainfall at Twin Ring Motegi is now wreaking havoc on race day at the Indy Japan 300. The start of the event has been delayed for about an hour and 20 minutes due to water seeping through seams and cracks in the asphalt, particularly in Turns 2 and 4. A few minutes ago, the IRL’s Brian Barnhart told ESPN’s Jack Arute that unless the “weepers” can be ...

Ooame Postpones Indycar Japan 300

Posted 4/19/2008 on Full Throttle

Copyright © 2008 Full Throttle . All Rights Reserved. If you are not reading this in a news reader, the website you are viewing it on is guilty of copyright infringement. Please report this site through the contact link on Full Throttle . (digital signature: 77c297e756c9103df2e56b4f36cce0ae) Heavy rain (”Ooame”) forced the cancellation of Friday’s qualifying and the track ...

Starting Grid: Indy Japan 300

Posted 4/18/2008 on Indy Racing Revolution

This is the third year in a row that Helio Castroneves will start from P1 at Twin Ring Motegi, and the second time in that span that he’s won the pole via bad weather. In 2006, he used his good fortune to dominate the race, leading 184 of 200 laps en route to the victory. Once again, he and the rest of the field will be seeing a green race track when they line up for the Indy Japan 300 ...

Teru teru bozu need to try harder at Motegi

Posted 4/17/2008 on Indy Racing Revolution

What the hell are “teru teru bozu,” you say? According to Rich Freeman, the Daily Yomiuri’s man at Twin Ring Motegi, they are Japanese good luck symbols that specialize in keeping the rain away. Looking at this picture off Wikipedia, they’re apparently supposed to hang from something and that they can look like cute little ghosts. I haven’t seen any pictures of ...

Motegi/Long Beach: A price that must be paid

Posted 4/17/2008 on Indy Racing Revolution

This weekend serves as the last barrier before American open-wheel racing is truly 100-percent unified. With the late coming of unification in February, the races at Twin Ring Motegi and the streets of Long Beach, Calif. ended up clashing together on the same date. And with neither one able to move their dates, we are faced with this cross-ocean double-header: the IndyCar Series veterans ...

IndyCar drivers watch the skies in Japan

Posted 4/17/2008 on Indy Racing Revolution

With rain in forecast, teams focus on race mode Speeds ticked up slightly in this morning’s second practice session for the Indy Japan 300 at Twin Ring Motegi, but don’t expect them to climb up too much farther. The forecast for tonight’s final practice and qualifying sessions look pretty wet , and according to IndyCar.com’s Dave Lewandowski, that means the teams ...

Tony Kanaan Quickest at Motegi Thursday Practice

Posted 4/17/2008 on FastMachines.com

AGR Ace Ready to Rumble in Far-Eastern Tilt Andretti Green Racing's Tony Kanaan made a splashy oriental debut on Thursday (April 17th) as he rolled his Dallara/Honda to a field's-highest lap of 27.2453 seconds (200.842 mph) at Twin Ring Motegi, Japan.

Final dual event weekend may rattle IRL points race

Published 4/18/2008 on USATODAY.com Motor Sports - Top Stories

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake shook the area near Twin Ring Motegi (Japan) track early Thursday, awakening Indy Racing League CEO ...