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became the latest driver to deny Roger Penske an IndyCar championship, wrapping
up his third title Saturday night in a race of attrition at Auto Club Speedway.
Will Power won the season finale — a year after he crashed in this race to blow
his own title chances — to salvage the night for Penske Racing. But it was Dixon
and Chip Ganassi celebrating on the big stage as the New Zealander won his third
series title, and Target Chip Ganassi claimed its 10th championship since 1990.
Dixon wrapped it up with a fifth-place finish. He was the final car on the lead
lap, and beat Helio Castroneves by 27 points for the title. "When youve won a
couple, they are all very different," Dixon said about his three titles. "This
year has been far different in that midyear we didnt think we had a shot at the
championship." It wasnt incident-free. Dixon, also the series champion in 2003
and 2008, nearly overheated late in the race. "We were freaking out," admitted
team manager Mike Hull. Penske has now been denied in the season finale six
times since Sam Hornish won the organization its last IndyCar championship in
2006. Ganassi has won five championships in that span. "I feel for Helio," Dixon
said. "He ran a strong year. Hes a hell of a competitor." This one slipped away
in spectacular fashion as Castroneves led the points after 14 races this season
and took a 49-point lead over Dixon into the Houston doubleheader two weeks ago.
But a gearbox issue in the first race, which Dixon won, saw his lead sliced to
just eight points. Then in the second race, Castroneves drove over a bump in the
track to cause a catastrophic failure to his gearbox. Dixon finished second and
left Houston with a 25-point lead. "One weekend for us, unfortunately for us
cost us a lot of points," Castroneves said. "We did everything we could to avoid
any kind of mechanical failure and the only time all season we had any kind of
mechanical failure, thats what cost us the season. This is the tough part of
racing." It backed Castroneves into a position of almost certainly needing to
win Saturday nights finale to salvage the title. But with the big boss on his
pit stand calling the race — Penske told The Associated Press before Houston hed
call the final three races of the season and "if theres any mistakes, any
issues, you can blame it on me" — Penske made a mistake. He called Castroneves
to pit lane before the pits were open during a late caution, and Castroneves was
penalized by IndyCar. He went from fourth to eighth after the drive-thru
penalty. "Im so sorry," Penske radioed. Castroneves downplayed the mistake.
"That was just a blip on the radar," he said. Instead, contact later with Dixon
teammate Charlie Kimball broke Castroneves front wing. The stop to replace it
dropped him a lap down, and Castroneves was the first car a lap down with his
sixth-place finish. "I feel for Helio," said Dixon. "He ran a strong year. Hes a
hell of a competitor." For Power, who was racing as much to help Castroneves win
the title as he was for himself, ended the night with what he called "the most
satisfying win of my life." Power had gone into the finale three years in a row
with the championship on the line, but hit a seam in the speedway last year and
crashed. Hes struggled most of this year and didnt pick up his first win of the
year until Sonoma in August. He then added another victory two weeks ago at
Houston, and Saturday nights win was his second career victory on an oval. "I
wanted to do it so badly all year," Power said. "I knew in the early ovals, I
just was kind of conservative because I just wanted to finish every lap. And
this time Im going for it." Only nine cars were running at the end, and a
six-car accident just past the halfway mark sent Justin Wilson to a local
hospital for evaluation. IndyCar medical director Dr. Michael Olinger said
Wilson suffered non-operable fractures to his pelvis and a small pulmonary
contusion. The accident began when Wilsons car wiggled as his rear tire was
caught in a seam on the track. The Brit tried to save it as his car began to
spin toward the wall, but as he lost control, Tristan Vautier drove directly
into the side of Wilsons car. "I didnt see him before I hit him. There was a big
cloud of smoke. Didnt see what was happening," Vautier said. It took the safety
team several minutes to get Wilson out of his car. He was placed on a stretcher
and taken by ambulance to a local hospital. The accident also collected Josef
Newgarden, who in trying to avoid Wilson drove into Oriol Servia. James Jakes
was also knocked out of the race, and in-car cameras showed a huge piece of
debris sailing over his head. "We were on the outside and in the smoke you lose
perception of everything," Jakes said. "We lost our vision and then I got hit
with the debris. Tough after starting fifth." Simona de Silvestros car suffered
damage, but she was able to continue. Before that, Carlos Munoz was impressive
driving as the emergency replacement for E.J. Viso, who didnt make the trip to
Fontana. Andretti Autosport said Viso was ill, although reports out of Venezuela
indicated Viso could be affected by an investigation into the funding of
motorsports drivers in that country. So Munoz was given Visos car to drive
Saturday night, hours after winning the Indy Lights race for the second
consecutive year. Munoz, who finished second in the Indianapolis 500 earlier
this year, drove as high as second and was mixing it up with the leaders. But he
was aggressive — too aggressive for Castroneves team owners liking — and Penske
urged Castroneves to get away from Munoz. It proved to be the correct advice
when Munoz spun on Lap 101, ending his night. "You were smart there. He was in
totally over his head," Penske radioed Castroneves.
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contents.SWANSEA, Wales - Ross Barkley enhanced his ever-growing reputation by
scoring directly from a free kick to move Everton provisionally up to fourth
place with a 2-1 win at Swansea in the Premier League on Sunday. Seamus Coleman
put Everton in front in the 66th minute with a ferocious strike, although the
visitors were pegged back when Bryan Oviedo put Dwight Tiendallis off-target
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