The 2009 IndyCar Championship

The final championship race of IRL IndyCar season organized in 2009 was a three-way combat between the best three championship contenders. Scott Dixon, Ryan Briscoe and Dario Franchitti drove away rest of the field. The race was very interesting and thrilling.

However, Dixon and Briscoe had the fastest and powerful cars on the track. Once they completed the first few laps, it became obvious that Dario did not get the pace of leaders. Dario and his crewmembers decided to conserve the fuel and let Briscoe and Dixon battle it out in the front.

The “Firestone Indy 300” was the first race organized in the league history to run from the green flag to the checkered flag, without any caution periods. As the race was competed without any incident or accident, Dixon and Briscoe were trapped in losing the strategies. Both of the leaders were said to pit on the lap 144.  For them, slow down and conserving the fuel was pointless. Therefore, their only option was to carry on the race to run full on. Dario made his pit stop in the final lap on the lap 150 as he had the guarantee to finish the race without any other stops.

Ryan Briscoe led the “IRL IndyCar Series Firestone Indy 300” on 10the October 2009 at the “Homestead-Miami Speedway”. Ryan Briscoe said that he knew that he would be stuck in the lap. On the lap 187, he earned two bonus points as he led most of the laps in the race. Dario was going slowly, virtual to the leaders, which Dixon and Briscoe almost passed him by the lap 190. However, Dario had the discipline and tried to hold his strategy.

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