Tony Kanaan in victory lane after winning the Iowa Corn Indy 250 on Sunday, June 20, 2010 (photo credit: Shawn Gritzmacher/IRL)The last IZOD IndyCar Series race, the Iowa Corn Indy 250 presented by Pioneer, was the same weekend as the NASCAR Toyota/SaveMart 350 at Infineon Raceway. So of course I didn’t watch it ’cause I was busy at the track, which sucks because I didn’t get to see Tony Kanaan finally end his 2-year losing streak.

While I didn’t watch the race I did read the post-race quotes from Tony and his teammates at Andretti Autosport. I thought it was pretty telling that all of his teammates, except Danica Patrick, made a point of congratulating Tony. Very interesting. I guess Tony and Danica still have some sort of rift going on (He did say she needed to change her attitude) and who knows how that’s going to play out. Whatever the deal is I thought it was lame for Danica to not, at the very least, say something about how Tony’s win was great for the organization, ‘cause that’s just what you do. Duh.


“I have to thank my team and the entire 7-Eleven crew.  They did a great job. I had a great car. I have to thank my teammates, Marco (Andretti) and Ryan (Hunter-Reay), who came over after qualifying. I was very disappointed. I made a mistake during qualifying and I was pretty down. They talked to me for 45 minutes and cheered me up. Marco gave me a little bit of his setup and Ryan actually helped me with the setup, putting it together for today. It was a great job as a team and it feels good.”

— Tony Kanaan

“We had an awesome day. We should have been on the podium with Tony today. We had an incident on pit lane and got black-flagged for it. We had to fight our way back up to the top 10. We had the Ethanol USA-Team IZOD car running in the top three. I’m really disappointed in the end. It should have been a great day for us. Congratulations to Tony; he deserves this for sure.”

–Ryan Hunter-Reay

“It’s definitely a disappointment to start third and finish where we did. The handling for the Venom car just didn’t make sense. We made all the right adjustments and we were still too loose. I wouldn’t be surprised if we end up finding something broken on the car.  We just weren’t able to make it happen today on the ’26’ side, but I’m happy for my teammate (Tony Kanaan) and the ’11’ crew.”

— Marco Andretti

“It was a challenging race for the GoDaddy car. We had a good car, but the longer the race went on, the more difficult the car got, handling-wise. I wish we had a better day, but we’ll take a top-10 finish.”

— Danica Patrick

IndyCar photo fun time after the jump! 🙂


Ryan Hunter-Reay

Ryan Hunter-Reay

Marco Andretti

Marco Andretti working it out. 🙂

Graham Rahal

Graham Rahal = Hotness 🙂

Sarah Fisher

Sarah Fisher

Mario Moraes

Mario Moraes

Alex Tagliani and his wife Bronte

Alex Tagliani laying one on his wife, Bronte, before the start of the race.

Tony Kanaan and Helio Castroneves

Tony Kanaan and Helio Castroneves playing around in Victory Lane. Helio finished second.

Tony Kanaan and Lauren Bohlander

Tony Kanaan and Lauren Bohlander. I’m assuming they’re dating because she’s not interviewing him in this photo, and you don’t usually see photos of reporters with drivers in Victory Lane. I dunno.