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Franchitti Wins Indy 500

His third time as champion.

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Dario Franchitti overtook Takuma Sato in the Indianapolis 500 for his third win in five years. The race had a record 35 lead changes and Franchitti drove an average of 167.734 miles per hour. In his victory interview he told reporters he paid homage to last year's winner, Dan Wheldon, who died in an accident in Las Vegas last October. “To be on this trophy on either side of Dan, that means more than anything,” Franchitti told reporters.

Read it at The New York Times

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