Dario Franchitti won his first Indy Racing League event of the season with victory at the Nashville Superspeedway on Saturday. Dario passed Patrick Carpentier on lap 194 and held on for the victory in the Firestone Indy 200.

The Andretti Green driver felt that his first victory of the season was well deserved, saying: "we've had a fast car all year, but for some reason or another, we couldn't get to victory lane. We had a wheel bearing failure in warm-up, so we feel like we got our bad luck out of the way early."

IndyCar Series points leader Dan Wheldon, who had 15 consecutive top-10 finishes dating to last season, retired on Lap 96 because of a suspension problem on the No. 26 Klein Tools/Jim Beam Dallara/Honda/Firestone. – 18 July 2005