IndyCar Season Gets Off The Ground... Literally...

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The 2010 IndyCar season got off to an auspicious start with a lot of help from cement dust...

The race in Sao Paulo, Brazil has just gotten underway, and when all the cars were heading into Turn One, the dust kicked up and the cars went everywhere...

Combine that with the rain forest-based gullywasher that red flagged the race for 45 minutes, and you get a sprint to the finish in a timed event.

Will Power made a pass with a few laps to go sending Ryan Hunter-Reay to second place. Brazil fave Vitor Meira finished third. Ryan Briscoe actually had the lead late, but a late wreck sent him packing.

Bob Jenkins has your play-by-play of your early fireworks alongside Jan Beekuis and Robbie Buhl...

Vitor Meira's Long Day

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Vitor Meira's day in the Indy 500 was one of the weirder in recent history...
Raphael Matos and Meira got tangled together in Turn 1 with 25 laps to go. Meira ended up on two wheels, hugging the wall for the better part of a quarter-mile.

But this was his first brush with the camera close-up...
Catching on fire in the pits will do that for you during a fuel stop...