Still it is not such a depressing loss as he came in ninth in the end, surely something he or his team was not aiming for but something that he will have to learn to live with – and what better way could there be to learn from experiences than to finish in ninth place.
The interesting story in the Indy 500 was the woman driver Danica Patrick who qualified for the event in twenty-third position putting much of the blame on her bulky and somewhat sluggish car but still she managed to finish in sixth with an almost flawless run, overtaking her opponents at any given chance and keeping her car out of contact with the others. Her story is one of true victory as she gained seventeen positions in the course of the Indy 500 event.