With Scott Dixon of Chip Ganassi Racing winning the Indianapolis 500, Ganassi may have a difficult time pulling the sweep with a win in NASCAR’s Coca-Cola 600.

Juan Pablo Montoya, an Indy 500 winner for Ganassi, qualified 42nd  for the Sodie 600, his first race since his crew chief got sacked. Reed Sorenson qualified 17th, and is the best of the Ganassi cars at Charlotte. Veteran Sterling Marlin is behind the wheel of the third Ganassi car, replacing injured Dario Franchitti — the former Indy 500 winner who was injured in a crash at Talladega in the Nationwide Series.

So, the Indy-Sodie sweep probably ain’t gonna happen.

Oh, well.

As for the Indy 500, twas a pretty good race, though I always feel bad for Michael Andretti having to explain what went wrong. This time, caramel boy and Andretti Green driver Tony Kanaan spun out as the result of teammate Marco Andretti passing him on the inside of a corner, and later Andretti Green driver Danica  Patrick got taken out on pit lane in a mishap caused by Penske driver Ryan Briscoe.

Patrick was none-too-happy with this and walked down pit road to confront Briscoe, only to be stopped and led over the pit wall by Indy security, or else we could have had an Indy reprise of the Montoya-Harvick slapfest in NASCAR last year at Watkins Glen.

Oh, and my revised upset pick, Tomas Schechter of Rock Racing, blew a driver shaft or something and was a DNF.

I’ll stick with my upset pick of Kahne in the Sodie 600, but reserve the right to switch it to, say, Sam Hornish Jr., if the race warrants it.

(What a cool day of racing, eh? The Indy 500, the Giro d’Italia replay on Versus, and now the Sodie 600.)

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