Dario Franchitti recovered from an off-course adventure Saturday
with a last-minute run to the pole position that ended a
troublesome day in which two drivers were hospitalized during
preparations for Sunday's Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma.  Franchitti
knocked Ryan Briscoe out of P1 with a late lap of 1:16.7987 in
the No. 10 Target Chip Ganassi Dallara-Honda. Franchitti and
Briscoe are involved in a close points race with Scott Dixon,
who failed to make the Fast Six session and will start 10th in
Sunday's race.  The day got off to a dangerous start as several
drivers slid off course during the morning practice session. Two
drivers, Will Power and Nelson Philippe, were taken to a nearby
hospital after their cars collided on a particularly dangerous
blind turn.  Power was kept overnight at Santa Rosa Memorial
Hospital with two broken vertebra and a concussion. Philippe was
being treated for a compound fracture of his left leg and a
concussion.  The accident brought questions about safety in Turn
3A, a blind right-h