Helio Castroneves
Helio Castroneves
Hélio Castro-Neves, better known as Hélio Castroneves, is a Brazilian auto racing driver competing in the IndyCar Series. In IndyCar competition, Castroneves has 23 wins and 38 poles, and placed second in the season standings four times, third two times and fourth four times. Prior to IndyCar, Castroneves competed in the CART championship, with a highest championship points finish of fourth; he recorded six wins and seven pole positions in the series...
NationalityBrazilian
ProfessionRace Car Driver
Date of Birth10 May 1975
CitySao Paulo, Brazil
CountryBrazil
along basically best both cars chance drive extremely fast front happy hard running seeing short sitting victory
I feel better because you basically have to drive the car. At some of the other tracks, you're just along for the ride. I guess, especially at the short ovals, we've been working extremely hard and our best chance of seeing victory and running really, really fast is at those tracks. I'm very happy to see both cars sitting on the front row.
capable car definitely drove respect tried trying
I don't think we ever touched. At the beginning, I think he was trying to know what I was doing and tried to see what my car was capable of doing. I respect him a lot after this race, not that I didn't respect him before. He definitely drove like a champion.
ahead believe bit cars dan feeling final finish five gave goal great honest lose moved ourselves push second team top weird win
I can't believe it. To lose (a race) that close, I don't what to feel, to be honest right now. Should I be happy? Should I be sad? I don't know. It's a weird feeling to finish second in this kind of situation, so close. We got ourselves back a little bit into the championship, and moved up into fifth. Let's keep moving. We gave it all we had, but we just couldn't push ahead on the final lap. Being realistic, Dan (Wheldon) is probably going to win the championship, but it would be a great goal to have two Marlboro Team Penske cars finish in the top five in points.
based beat believe guess meant previous races tried won
I can't believe it. I actually thought I had won the race. I tried very hard. Based on previous races with Dan, there was no way I was going to give him much room, but he beat me anyway. I guess it was not meant to be.
everybody hired job
Everybody has a destiny. That's the only thing I would tell him. He's there for a reason. He should just do the job he was hired to do.
close drove trying
Even when I was in the lead, I was getting too close to the wall, trying to make up time. I drove like I stole it.
bring fence good maybe piece problem
That's a good problem to have. Maybe they'll have to bring out a piece of fence to the start-finish line.
banana brings good oatmeal retaining sugar tastes
The banana is good for retaining water, and the sugar brings me up. It's going to look like oatmeal when it's done, but it tastes much better.
ahead finishing happen might planning point track worry
They have to worry about finishing ahead of me. I have to just finish ahead of them. At this point of the season, you don't think what might happen or keep track of the points; you just go for it, and that is what we are planning right now.
nascar sure won
It was just not enough. If we were like NASCAR and had bumpers, I'm sure I would have won the race.
time top
Once I made the top six, it was, 'OK, now it's time to go for it,
draft equipment flat hopefully learning takes track
It's a track where everyone can go flat easy. It's a track where equipment sometimes takes over for the driving. But that's for speed. The draft is very important here and we have been learning what it takes, so hopefully we will be able to learn from that and win.
definitely good lame
No, that would be a lame excuse, to be honest. He's a good driver, he's fast, but that was definitely a full-face error.
bad both corner decided definitely ended everybody fast good great heck move noticed pass patience taking trying
It was a bad move on Ryan's part, you know. He had a great car, he was fast. Both of us were fast. Danica was trying -- she noticed that we were really fast and she was trying to give us a way. I don't know what the heck he was thinking. He just decided to pass everybody in one corner and he ended up taking everybody out. It's just ridiculous. He's a good driver. He's fast, but there was definitely no patience at all.