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3-way battle for 6th btwn. Scheckter, Kanaan and Patrick; meanwhile, Franchitti continues to lead with Hornish and Castroneves in tow

Top-5 remain unchanged through lap 26

Franchitti, Hornish, Castroneves, Dixon and Wheldon

Caution's out........caution flag is out; looking for what has happened........

Race control reporting that the #19 of Jon Herb has crashed in turn 2 w/heavy damage to the rear of the car; has come to a stop


Pit lane is closed but everyone is expected to make their first round of stops(expecting about 5-6 stops during the race)

Pits are now open; expecting everyone to stop for fuel and tires....................3-way race down pitlane btwn. the Penske cars and the TGR car of Scott Dixon............

According to race control, Franchitti was the first out of the pits, although Hornish was scored as the race leader on lap 30 but Franchitti retook the lead exiting pitroad

Team Penske reporting that the weight jacker control in Hornish's car isn't working, so there could be balance problems for him during the race..........

Lap leaders..........(as of lap 33)
Franchitti 32 laps
Hornish 1 lap


Race control reporting one to go until green..........

Green's back out........green's back out!

3-wide on the backstretch involving Patrick, Wheldon and Scheckter; Patrick gets in front of them through 3 and 4

Franchitti continues to lead, starting to pull away; Kanaan moves into 2nd

4-wide in the backstretch involving Patrick, Sharp, Marco and Meira!

Franchitti, Kanaan and Castroneves have broken away a little bit from the rest of the field.............

Top-5 through lap 44......Franchitti, Kanaan, Castroneves, Dixon and Wheldon

Race control reporting possible showers west and southwest of the track...........caution's back out; the #23 of Milka Duno moving very slowly along the track apron; race control reporting that the Delphi Safety personnel will give Duno a tow to pitlane

Second round of stops(........... ................) beginning......and Franchitti stalls!! They get him refired, but he's lost a ton of spots; a horrible stop for the Canadian Club/Argent team there(timing/scoring reports that he fell from the lead all the way to 18th)

The big beneficiary of that round of stops was Scott Dixon, who sits 24 or so points behind Franchitti in the championship fight, so this could definitely hurt the Scotsman...........

Green flag! Green flag! One/quarter of the race through and cars are going 3-and-4 wide at the front; they know the weather's approaching and this could become a full-fired sprint race!!!

Patrick and Scheckter dicing for 7th/8th; Patrick holds onto 7th

And Franchitti is on a mission; he's moved up from 18th all the way up to 5th!

3-wide btwn Wheldon, Scheckter and Franchitti..............and the Scotsman is back to 2nd! Dixon leads, but the championship fight is in full swing here!

Caution's out! Crash in turn 1.............Castroneves and Meira involved and Spiderman is ticked; looks like he's asking Meira, "what the ----(fill in the blank there...... ) did you do?"

Watching the ESPN feed, it's apparent Castroneves is very, very ticked off!! He's very animated at the moment; listening to the TV feed, analyst Scott Goodyear's jokingly suggesting that "maybe we shoulda' mic'd Helio for the race.........."(Mod's note.........I don't think that's a good idea, Scott! )