Dixon held off Vítor Meira and Marco Andretti over the final 24 laps to secure the win.

Panoz had already ceased supporting their chassis program in 2006, effectively ushering in a four-year "spec" era.

* Includes days where track activitywas significantly limited due to rain ROP — denotes Rookie Orientation Program Comm.

Failed to qualify At 1:03 p.m., Mari Hulman George gave the command to start engines.

[11] Emerson Fittipaldi was booed during the parade laps due to his incident where he drank orange juice instead of milk after winning in 1993.

At the same time, rookie Graham Rahal drifted high and hit the wall exiting turn four.

[11] Marty Roth and Jaime Camara each brought out the yellow in the first half, suffering single-car crashes.

The caution was then extended when Jeff Simmons car suddenly veered and hit the inside wall on the frontstretch.

Dixon ran second, while Wheldon began to slip deep in the standings with handling problems.

His crash was followed 20 laps later by Alex Lloyd, who brushed the wall in turn 4, and spun wildly into the pit area.

At pit exit, Ryan Briscoe swung wide and clipped the right rear of Danica Patrick's car.

[11] Patrick climbed out of the car, and started walking down towards the Team Penske pits, presumably to confront Briscoe.

Patrick and Briscoe were fined $100,000 and were placed on probation until the end of the 2008 season for an aggressive pit incident.

The race was televised in high definition in the United States on ABC, the 44th consecutive year on that network.

Time trials were shown live in high definition on ABC, ESPN, and ESPN2 at various timeslots and was available via broadband at MediaZone.com.

For the second year in a row, Davey Hamilton offered live in-car reporting during caution periods.

For the fourth year in a row, Kevin Olson conducted his annual pre-race interview with David Letterman.