From The Sports Network/Miami Herald: IndyCar simply wanted a better show. Ryan Briscoe and Ed Carpenter gave the series a little bit more than that.
Briscoe slipped past the upstart Carpenter yards from the finish to take the Kentucky 300 on Saturday night, winning by 0.162 seconds following a 10-lap duel that provided the kind of thrills that have been lacking during a mostly listless season.
There were nights this season when IndyCar veteran Ed Carpenter would hop in his trailer following another ho-hum race, flip on the replay and fight to stay awake. "It was hard for me to watch," Carpenter said. "There were races where we just didn't put on a good show. It's hard for them to even make it entertaining."
Taking a second look at Saturday night's Kentucky 300 could be just as difficult for Carpenter to sit through, but for an entirely different reason.
Ryan Briscoe edged Carpenter by inches to win Saturday's Meijer Indy 300 at Kentucky Speedway.
Briscoe and Carpenter battled side-by-side for the lead during the final 10 laps before Briscoe beat him to the finish line by 0.0162 seconds, the seventh closest finish in IndyCar Series history. The Team Penske driver captured his second victory of the season and the fourth of his career.
"I'm pretty happy to get another one for Team Penske," Briscoe said. "I just wanted to keep doing what I had been doing. Ed would get a little bit in front of me in the middle of turns three and four, but with my momentum on the outside, I was able to edge him down the back straight."
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