Danica Patrick apologized Sunday for jumping the start at the end of a caution period, costing her two spots with 12 laps left in the PEAK Antifreeze Indy 300 source: Yahoo-Sports - Rick Gano After starting on the pole, Patrick finished sixth -- her seventh top 10 finish this season. Her late mistake hurt her chance at a first victory. "I thought I heard 'green," Patrick said. "My earpieces weren't completely clear all day. What I thought was a 'green' wasn't. I don't blame myself. I'm not mad at myself for it. I mean if somebody else is sitting in fourth trying to go for a win, you thought you heard 'green,' you'd probably go, too. I was being proactive. ... I apologize for anything, any kind of repercussions that happened from that." GETTING CHECKED OUT Ryan Briscoe had a concussion, bruised long and two broken clavicles but was listed in good condition at a Chicago-area hospital following a fiery crash on the 20th lap Sunday. The rear end of Briscoe's car broke off after the collision with Alex Barron and debris tore a hole in a fence surrounding the track. ``I saw his engine and car in half and I tried to keep looking away,'' runnerup Helio Castroneves said. ``That was a horrible accident, an engine there, a wheel there, a cockpit there,'' Danica Patrick said. ``It certainly affects me when you see an accident like that. It's not the nicest thing at all,'' winner Dan Wheldon said. ``I asked if he's OK. I assume he's continuing to be OK, which goes to show you the safety with which the cars are made because ... It looked very, very bad.'' It was a bad weekend for Briscoe, who drives for Target Chip Ganassi Racing. He'd apparently won the pole in Saturday's qualifying but his car failed a post-race inspection and he was dropped from first to 23rd. Barron and Kosuke Matsuura, who also was involved in the crash, were not injured.
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