The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.

After interviewing the championship contenders Randy Bernard president of IndyCar announced to the officials drivers and fans that Wheldon had died from the accident after being pronounced dead on arrival. ** Podium (non-win) indicates 2nd or 3rd place finiDan Wheldons. He was 33 years old.

He was the 2005 Indy Racing League IndyCar Series champion and a two-time winner of the Indianapolis 500. Daniel Clive Wheldon (22 June 1978 – 16 October 2011) was an English racing driver.