Danica patricThe rain held off Sunday to give Danica Patrick a second chance, and James Jakes waved off his qualifying attempt, giving Marco Andretti one more shot to make the Indianapolis 500Patrick and Marco Andretti took advantage of the good fortune and qualified for the centennial anniversary race at the Brickyard. With her No. 7 Go Daddy car scheduled to qualify second on Sunday, she should have gone out when qualifying began at 12:00 p.m.
ET to make a run before the first of two rain showers fell. But her car failed to pass technical inspection (for an unspecified reason related to the rear brake shrouds, it is believed) prior to pulling into the qualifying line. Patrick posted a four-lap average of 224.861 mph after it looked like she might not even get to qualify on Bump Day. Andretti delivered an even more clutch performance in the final run of the day, going 224.628 to bump his way back onto the 33-car grid.t was either going to be into the wall or into the show,"
the 24-year-old son of the team owner said. "It was a bummer that we were in this positionPerhaps it should have been expected – given the family history at IndianapolisMarco Andretti's grandfather, Mario, won the 1969 Indy 500 but never reached Victory Lane again. Michael, led more laps at Indy than any other non-winner, and Marco wound up as the 500 runner-up when Sam Hornish Jr. passed him in the closing yards of the 2006 racBut as much consternation as the Andrettis have endured at this 2.5-mile oval, this might have been their worst month ever at Indy.
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