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INDY CAR REWIND; Dan Wheldon emerges on top during a familiar IRL weekend.(Motorsports)(Indy Racing League)
Byline: CURT CAVIN
Baseball great Yogi Berra once described something as "deja vu all over again.'' That also applies to the Indy Racing League's race at Homestead-Miami Speedway: Dan Wheldon won the season opener for the third straight year, a series record.
Wheldon won in dominating fashion, following a pattern that had also defined his 2006 season. He led 179 of the 200 laps, the sixth time in the past 15 races that he has led more than half the laps.
The problem is, Wheldon won only two of those races (the past two), the reason he only tied Sam Hornish Jr. for the top spot in last year's point standings. Hornish claimed the championship because he won two additional races (four in all to Wheldon's two).
Wheldon knows he must complete such runs to score his second title in three years. But guess what? He said he doesn't care all that much right now, at least not about the championship.
"I'm all about winning the Indianapolis 500,'' the 2005 winner at the Brickyard said. "We should have won last year, and I've never seen anyone more determined to win that race than [team owner] Chip Ganassi.
"That's our goal; we'd rather have that than the championship.''
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