Team Penske’s Helio Castroneves was able to stretch his final tank of ethanol from Lap 147 to the finish at Kentucky Speedway to win the Meijer Indy 300.
Ed Carpenter, who led 35 laps of last year’s Miejer Indy 300 but lost the race to Ryan Briscoe by just 16 thousandths of a second, was the surprise pole qualifier Friday at Kentucky Speedway, despite running only a part-time schedule in the 2010 IZOD IndyCar Series.