One day after completing a record-shattering IRL IndyCar® Series season, Dan Wheldon got to celebrate his IndyCar Series championship - again source: paddocktalk.com This time, the IndyCar Series champion and newly crowned Menards Infiniti Pro Series champion Wade Cunningham - along with other drivers, teams and manufacturers - were recognized during the Indy Racing League Championship Celebration at Paramount Pictures Studio. Emmy Award winner Dennis Miller hosted the awards show at the Paramount Theatre, with a dinner and party afterward on the studio grounds. The program will be broadcast at Noon (EST) Oct. 23 on ESPN2. "In this day and age of motor racing, it's difficult to win races alone - in particular in the IndyCar Series because of how competitive it is," said Wheldon, who drove the No. 26 Klein Tools/Jim Beam Dallara/Honda/Firestone to a single-season-record six victories and led a series-record 15 races. "To be able to win the Indianapolis 500 and the championship is an unbelievable achievement. The season has been 17 races and we've been on every different type of track you could imagine - street course, permanent road course, short ovals, big ovals, the intermediate ones. To put together a season in which we've won a lot and been very consistent truly means a lot. "Having champion on your resume can never be taken away, and I think a championship is important to team owners and everybody from the person who sweeps the shop floors to the bosses. It pays people back that put a lot of faith in you."
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