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Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2008 7:16 am**

And the command to start the engines has been given.......cars beginning to roll off of pit lane onto the track......

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2008 7:19 am**

One lap until green.

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2008 7:20 am**

GREEN FLAG! GREEN FLAG! The race is underway as Dixon leads 'em into turn 1..........

Caution's out...........caution's out!!!! Crash in turn 2 at the back, looks like the #36 of Enrique Bernoldi......

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2008 7:23 am**

Damage was light to the front wing on Bernoldi's car

Dixon leads from Wheldon; Scheckter, Patrick and Foyt round out the top-5 on lap 3

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2008 7:25 am**

Listening to the radio feed, there is a ticked-off driver in the #7 car; watching the video, it looked like Scheckter pushed Patrick below the white line at the start........race control has warned Scheckter not to do anything of that nature again.....

Green flag next lap............

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2008 7:26 am**

And the green's back out.........Dixon leads the field to the stripe, Scheckter right behind him

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2008 7:28 am**

4-way scrum a little ways' back btwn. Meira, Carpenter, Kanaan and Castroneves for 6th-9th

Dixon still leads, Scheckter hanging off the right-rear corner

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2008 7:30 am**

Passing lap 14...............Dixon still leads from Scheckter; Wheldon in 3rd

Further back, Power passes Wilson for P21

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2008 7:31 am**

Now passing lap 18......Wheldon gets around Scheckter; both Target cars 1-2

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2008 7:32 am**

Dixon and Wheldon in lockstep, starting to stretch out the lead from Scheckter

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2008 7:34 am**

Caution's out...............looks like the Aussie Vineyards D/H of Will Power smacked the right-side of the car going through turn 2; suspension damage on the right-side and his day is apparently done

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2008 7:36 am**

Top-5 passing lap 25
Dixon, Wheldon, Scheckter, Patrick and Foyt, IV

Race control reporting most of the teams will come in for their first round of stops....

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2008 7:39 am**

And there's a problem in the Scheckter pits; looks like the #25 of Marty Roth ran into Scheckter entering his pit lane.......very close call, no one's hurt thankfully but that was close........

Watching the cars exit.............Foyt's the big winner, picking up 3 spaces; Patrick, on the other hand, lost three spots on that stop.....the big winner in all that schmozzle, ironically, was that of NHLR's Justin Wilson, who is being scored in 1st

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2008 7:41 am**

Correction.....Wilson didn't pit with the others; he pitted on lap 5 and inheirted the lead when everyone else pitted

Top-5 after 29 laps,
Wilson, Dixon, Foyt, Wheldon and Carpenter

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2008 7:41 am**

Race control reporting that Roth will have to serve a 30-second stop-n'-go penalty once the green flag comes back out

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