Kanaan Snatches First Season Win

Kanaan, whose last win was at Nashville Superspeedway one year ago, beat Andretti Green teammate Dan Wheldon to the finish line by just 0.012 - the sixth closest finish in IRL history.

Rahal-Letterman driver Victor Meira made it a three-way photo finish across the line, finishing third only one hundredth of a second behind Wheldon.

"The biggest nose won," a happy Kanaan joked after the race.

Wheldon seemed set to take a fifth season victory, leading 111 of the 200-lap race. Starting from 13th, the series points leader gambled on an early pitstop strategy, but with just two laps before the end of the race lost his lead to a charging Kanaan.

"I love Tony to bits. I'm glad he beat me instead of somebody else, but losing like this is difficult to take," Wheldon said after the race.

Pole sitter Danica Patrick is still chasing the elusive first career win, the Rahal-Letterman rookie battled mechanical failures through the race to finish ninth.

Pos  Driver               Make-Engine      Laps
 1.  Tony Kanaan          Dallara-Honda    200
 2.  Dan Wheldon          Dallara-Honda    200
 3.  Vitor Meira          Panoz-Honda      200
 4.  Dario Franchitti     Dallara-Honda    200
 5.  Tomas Scheckter      Dallara-Chevy    200
 6.  Scott Sharp          Panoz-Honda      200
 7.  Darren Manning       Panoz-Toyota     200
 8.  Helio Castroneves    Dallara-Toyota   200
 9.  Danica Patrick       Panoz-Honda      200
10.  Buddy Rice           Panoz-Honda      200
11.  Tomas Enge           Dallara-Chevy    200
12.  Sam Hornish Jr.      Dallara-Toyota   200
13.  Alex Barron          Dallara-Toyota   200
14.  Patrick Carpentier   Dallara-Toyota   200
15.  Bryan Herta          Dallara-Honda    200
16.  A.J. Foyt IV         Dallara-Toyota   200
17.  Ed Carpenter         Dallara-Toyota   200
18.  Scott Dixon          Panoz-Toyota     200
19.  Jimmy Kite           Dallara-Toyota   195
20.  Kosuke Matsuura      Panoz-Honda      134
21.  Ryan Briscoe         Panoz-Toyota     113
22.  Roger Yasukawa       Dallara-Honda     53