Franchitti quickest in Indy Carb Day

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05/28/2010 - Indianapolis, IN (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Defending IZOD IndyCar Series champion Dario Franchitti topped the speed charts in Friday's Carb Day -- the final practice session for the Indianapolis 500.

Helio Castroneves, the pole sitter, led the way early in the one-hour session before Franchitti turned a lap of 225.574 m.p.h. Franchitti will start third in this year's Indy 500, the same position he started from when he won this race in 2007.

Castroneves, who finished fifth in practice, has an opportunity to make history at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. If the Team Penske driver wins on Sunday, not only would it be his record-tying fourth Indy 500 victory, but he would become the first driver to win back-to-back 500s twice as well.

He would join A.J. Foyt, Rick Mears and Al Unser as the race's only four-time winners.

"As far as I'm concerned, Helio can wait until I retire to join that elite group," Franchitti jokingly said. "We just don't want to beat one car and one team. We want to beat everybody, but in order to win this thing, we're going to have to go past the Penske team at some point."

Franchitti's Target Chip Ganassi Racing teammate and 2008 Indy 500 winner Scott Dixon was second quickest in practice with a lap of 225.159 m.p.h. Dixon was followed by current points leader Will Power, who was the quickest among the three Penske teams.

Dixon and Franchitti combined for 123 laps led in last year's Indy 500, but pit road mishaps for each one of the Ganassi drivers cost them an opportunity to win. Castroneves took the lead from Dixon with 59 laps remaining and held it for his third Indy 500 victory.

"Last year, both Target cars, in my opinion, were the class of the field," Franchitti said. "We did have those bad pit stops with Scott and myself, and that just goes to show you, it's a team sport. It takes every single member of the crew of any of the teams out there to have a perfect day, to have a chance at winning this thing. It's very unusual for Team Target to make a mistake like that, but it didn't take us out of contention. We would like to remind them this Sunday and try to finish the job."

Bruno Junqueira from FAZZT Race Team looked impressive in practice with the fourth fastest lap.

E.J. Viso, Dan Wheldon, Mario Moraes, Raphael Matos and Alex Tagliani completed the top-10.

Danica Patrick continued to struggle at Indianapolis with a 21st-place finish in practice. Last Saturday, Patrick endured her worst Indy 500 qualifying performance with a 23rd starting position. She had qualified no worse than 10th in her first five Indy 500 starts.

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It’s time to see how the biggest NFL free agent signings will perform for their news teams. Some will work out and could be the difference that makes a difference in the win column.

We look at the best off-season signings and if they should influence your NFL betting this season. Julius Peppers – Peppers was the biggest prize available on the 2010 NFL free agent market and the Chicago Bears opened the bank to bring his talents to the south side.

Peppers is explosive, he can get around blockers and cause quarterbacks to lose their minds. We all remember the classic Peppers game last year against the Vikings where he hounded Brett Favre into his worst game of the season. Peppers joining the Bears could be the reason Favre retired for good Tuesday morning. In addition to Peppers, the Bears added Chester Taylor to back up Matt Forte, Forte didn’t have the same intensity in 2009 compared to 2008 and bringing in Taylor will challenge Forte to bring it every game or he’ll risk losing carries to Taylor.

Betting on the Bears is a good option this season because of Julius Peppers and to a lesser extent Taylor. Antonio Bryant and Terrell Owens – The Cincinnati Bengals signed two former number one wide receivers to line up with Chad Ocho Cinco. Antonio Bryant had a huge season in 2008 catching 83 passes for over 1200 yards but regressed last season. Playing for the Tampa Bay Bucs last season was a large part of the regression, everyone was bad in TB last season.

Bryant should have a bounce back season if he can win the number two spot from Terrell Owens. If Bryant wins the number 2 WR spot, it will open up a completely new set of problems for the Bengals. If Owens is forced to the bench in favor of Bryant, his attitude will create trouble for Carson Palmer and head coach Marv Lewis. If Owens is the number two receiver, it means Bryant can’t live up to his past numbers and the Bengals are still limited in the passing game. NFL bettors should be wary of laying their money down on what could potentially be the biggest gong show in the league in 2010. 2010 football betting lines for this can be found at this top online sportsbook. Karlos Danby – The Miami Dolphins have a great running back tandem in Ricky Williams and Ronnie Brown, a good young QB in Chad Henne and now the Bill Parcells regime is building a solid defense.

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