Foyt loses wheel, ruins race for many

Target Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon and Dan Wheldon were running second and third with 31 laps left in the Bombardier Learjet 550K when both were collected in a multi-car pile-up while passing lapped traffic at Texas Motor Speedway. While Wheldon’s night was immediately over, the Target team was able to repair some damage to the no.9 Target car to get it back out to finish the race, gain some valuable spots and points in the standings, and kept Dixon’s streak of running at the finish alive at 23 consecutive races.

“I saw AJ Foyt IV lose a wheel ahead and no one else slowed up and I got collected from behind," said Dixon. The Tony George Vision team crew did not get Foyt's wheel on right and it flew off in turn 3. Drivers slowed to avoid the wheel and many cars got collected up in the accident. Four retired the others continued.

Prior to the six car accident, both Target cars battled up front throughout much of the race with Wheldon leading 52 laps and Dixon leading six, while battling eventual race winner Sam Hornish Jr. for the checkered flag. Dixon crossed the finish line in tenth place while Wheldon was credited with a 15th place finish.