Some drivers comments following Pikes Peak source: paddocktalk.com DAN WHELDON (No. 26 Klein Tools/Jim Beam Dallara/Honda/Firestone, finished first): "It's very important to me to be in Victory Lane, for everybody involved. The car was good. My three teammates pushed me hard. We all want to be in victory lane as much as one another. It just happened to work out for me. I've been tough on the Klein Tools/Jim Beam boys. I've been frustrated at some of the results. Certainly today, it was a great team effort by certainly those guys and everybody at Andretti Green Racing. It's a nice time for a victory to come. Dario was really strong. I think he was my strongest competitor today. I was a little bit better in traffic at some points. It was a shame for him. He's had some bad luck." SAM HORNISH JR. (No. 6 Marlboro Team Penske Dallara/Toyota/Firestone, finished second): "They got ahead of me when I got caught up to lap traffic. I saw guys were four wide in front of me, and I ended up turning a lap that was six seconds slower than what I was running before. That really killed us, but I didn't want to get back up in there. I figured on a track that's mostly two lanes wide, and some people were wanting to go four wide for who knows what positions, that's asking for trouble." TONY KANAAN (No. 11 Team 7-Eleven Dallara/Honda/Firestone, finished third): "Dan did a great job today. He drove like a champion and hats off to him. Now it's our job to clinch second in the championship for Team 7-Eleven. Our other plan was to clinch the manufacturer's championship for Honda, and we accomplished that. I knew that we didn't have the car to win the race, but we had a good enough car to finish as high as second. I had a good battle with Sam, and we raced hard over the final laps. It was fun racing like that."
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