Danny Sullivan dives low through turn one on lap 120 to grab the lead from Mario Andretti, only to have the tail slide out as he exits the turn. He spins around one and a quarter times across the south %u201Cshort chute%u201D as Andretti dives to the inside to successfully avert a collision. Miraculously, Sullivan completely avoids hitting the wall, recovers from the spin and then makes his way around to the pits for a change of tires. None of the drivers can believe what they have seen, and tire engineers are amazed to discover the tires bear no flat spots. Twenty laps later, Sullivan passes Andretti again, in exactly the same place, and this time is successful. He is famously the first ever to "spin and win."

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• Taken: February 09, 2006

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