Takuma Sato Wins Indy 500 as Alonso Retires from Engine Failure

“We showed finally a great result today”. “Are you kidding? Third place”, the Brazilian, who is 20 years older than Jones, butted in when hearing his fellow driver’s remarks.

Still, Honda had the winning engine at the end and six of the top 10. He had trouble early when he ran over debris and needed to change his rear wing, but he battled back to the front of the field in the closing laps. We just got pictures with every single family.

“This is going to be mega big”. “It was so close”.”I really thought we had it”, the Brazilian said.He almost got it right.Sato, who started from the second row, beat Castroneves by two-tenths of a second.”We kept pushing on, kept making up positions”, the 23-year-old from Dubai said.

“I am sorry, I made a mistake, and I understand 72 years have passed since the end of World War II and I do regret people with whom I probably am very closely aligned with politically and philosophically have been so offended”.

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“I have to say that you drove not like a rookie, to be honest, so congrats”, Castroneves said.

Michael Andretti ran down pit lane to reach Sato’s crew, then rushed to victory lane to hug his driver, the first Japanese victor of the Indy 500.

Alonso said. “I mean the whole day has been a very good experience, from the presentation and the racing was fun – it was nice. I was thinking at that moment if Zak [Brown, McLaren team principal] or someone from the team was taking a picture, because I want that picture at home”, said Alonso, who thanked the fans at Indy for a positive experience. The Indy 500 was initially a part of the FIA World Championship, which is now synonymous with the Formula 1 championship.

“To drive around Monaco for a seventh place, an eighth place…to be here, it’s impossible to compare”.

On a day when Scott Dixon destroyed his ride in a frightening crash and pieces of race cars flew like shrapnel, he was as quick a study as his pedigree suggested he’d be, leading 27 laps and running in the top five for vast chunks of the day. Alonso skipped the Monaco Grand Prix to contest in the American race and led for a total of 27 laps before his Andretti Autosport Honda race vehicle gave up with just 21 laps to go, while he was in the seventh place. But then the first groan echoed across the speedway went Hunter-Reay’s auto came to a halt 64 laps from the end, and Kimball’s vehicle experienced the same fate 21 laps later.

“The last two weeks, I came here basically to prove myself, to challenge myself”, Alonso said.

“I know Helio is always going to charge, but he’s just such a gentleman and such a fair player.”

“Actually when I went past, I think with three laps to go, on the outside, I knew I would make it”, Castroneves said.

Fortunately, the Indianapolis Star reported that Dixon and Howard were able to walk away from the wreck relatively injury-free.

But it is back to reality on Monday ahead of the next stop on the F1 calendar in Montreal on June 11. I should have known better and I regret it. “It was also the longest race I’ve ever been in, with so many ups-and-downs”.