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DISASTER STRIKES DARIO; If Franchitti loses the IndyCar title, he'll remember Infineon Raceway.(Competitions of car racing)
Byline: CURT CAVIN
Maybe a family feud is exactly what the IndyCar Series needed to spice up the end of its season.
Ganassi Racing's Scott Dixon is fine with that, after an incident between Andretti Green Racing's drivers at Infineon Raceway greatly benefited him.
AGR's Dario Franchitti was dominating the Motorola Indy 300 when he came upon the pit-exiting car of teammate Marco Andretti, who was trying to beat Franchitti up the hill on lap 69 of 80.
Franchitti appeared to have enough momentum to overtake last year's Infineon winner, but he caught him too fast at turn two, and they touched wheels.
The contact knocked Andretti into the dirt for the second time (the first came after lap-one contact with Ryan Hunter-Reay), but Franchitti incurred a much greater consequence. His left front wing was damaged, leaving him a sitting duck for the second-place-running Dixon when the race resumed after caution with eight laps to go.
Dixon passed Franchitti promptly, and so did Helio Castroneves. Only protection from teammate Tony Kanaan kept Franchitti from falling deeper down the order with a car he had to nurse home.
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