Raceday summary - Firestone Indy 200.

Gil de Ferran won an eventful Firestone Indy 200 on Saturday night at the 1.33-mile Nashville Superspeedway, his second win of the season and the fourth IRL IndyCar Series victory of his career.

de Ferran went one place better than his 2002 result around the tricky concrete tri-oval to add one of Nashville's traditional 'rock-guitar' first place trophy to the Borg-Warner miniature trophy he earned in May for winning the 2003 Indy 500. Roger Penske has now earned 116 IndyCar style victories, just one week after celebrating his 1000th Indy style start as a team owner.

MBNA Pole winner Scott Dixon finished second, his fourth top-five finish of the season. His has three victories this season, at Homestead-Miami, Pikes Peak and Richmond but dropped from second to third in the 2003 standings behind leader Tony Kanaan and de Ferran.

Helio Castroneves completed the podium in the second Marlboro Team Penske Dallara-Toyota as de Ferran, Dixon and the double Indy 500 winner all closed to within 21 points of Kanaan at the head of the points table. Saturday's result was the third time this year that all three-podium finishers had Toyota engines after Homestead and Richmond.

Dan Wheldon finished a career-best fourth for Andretti-Green Racing, only losing third to Castroneves in the closing laps as he tried to make his fuel and final set of tyres last for almost 80 laps. Wheldon's previous best finish was seventh in April 2002 at Motegi and it came just one race after his controversial accident with Felipe Giaffone that left the Brazilian driver nursing a broken right leg and fractured pelvis.

Giaffone's replacement in the Mo Nunn Racing camp and defending Firestone Indy 200 winner Alex Barron finished fifth after running as high as third in the early part of the 200-lap event. Barron has competed in three races in 2003, and fifth is his best finish. His previous best finish was sixth at the 87th Indianapolis 500.

Sam Hornish Jr. led four laps en route to an 11th-place finish. It marked the first time this season that Hornish had led a lap and the first laps that a Chevrolet engine had led in 2003.

The Firestone Indy 200 ended under caution, marking the fourth time this season that a race has ended under caution following Buddy Lazier's late race accident.