The 2007 Indianapolis 500

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It looks like race car driver Dan Wheldon really wants to get back to the winner’s circle at the Brickyard. Wheldon won the Indianapolis 500 back in 2005 and looked to be on his way to a repeat win last year before car trouble dropped him to a fourth-place finish. Wheldon had led 148 of the 200 laps of last year’s Indy 500 race but the only one that matters is the last lap, which Sam Hornish Jr. led by 0.0635 seconds over rookie Marco Andretti. The 2007 Indy 500 may still be just over two weeks away, but Wheldon is already tearing up the practice sessions. In a rain-shortened second day of practice on Wednesday, Wheldon became the first driver this month to break the 226-mph mark at Indy. Wheldon took only seven laps to post a fastest lap of 226.391 mph (39.7543 seconds), which topped his leading time posted on the first practice day.

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