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Patrick now up to 5th as she makes a low-side pass through turn 2 around the #6 of Briscoe; Manning now threatens the Team Penske car


Dixon continues to lead from Castroneves and Kanaan

Top-5 after 103 laps
Dixon, Castroneves, Kanaan, Wheldon and Patrick

Briscoe passes Patrick for 5th; it looks as though lap traffic caught Patrick on the low side and Briscoe used the #2 of A.J. Foyt IV as a pick to make the pass; Patrick had to swerve to the inside to avoid Quattro......

Foyt's done for the day; apparently he had whitewalled the car a few laps earlier and done some suspension damage to the right rear, which slowed him down enough for race control to order him to pitlane


Passing 116 laps.....top-5 still unchanged(Dixon, Castroneves, Kanaan, Wheldon and Briscoe)

Dixon stretching out the lead now over Castroneves; the lead is now up to 2.4 seconds; top-5 still unchanged

The Kiwi continues to lead; his lead now up to 4.3 seconds over Castroneves; Kanaan and Wheldon fighting for 3rd and 4th while Briscoe continues to hold 5th

Make that a 3-way fight; Castroneves still holding 2nd, while Wheldon has caught his former teammate Kanaan for 3rd; Dixon now leading by over 6 seconds

....and Kanaan falls a little further back as Wheldon gets by him


Dixon looks to be on cruise control at the moment as he continues to expand his lead over 2nd to 6.27 seconds after 138 laps; race control reporting the winds have begun to pick up some around the track

Next round of stops beginning as a couple of cars peel off onto pitlane for fuel and tires........


And the caution's back out for a crash on the frontstretch; race control reporting the #77 of Roger Yasukawa is stopped with some damage along the inside frontstretch wall

Now we begin to enter the land of fuel strategy as teams will try to get in as much fuel as possible, hoping not to have to pit right at the end of the race; back in 2005, several drivers, most notably then-Panther Racing driver Tomas Scheckter, ran dry on the last lap of the race..........


Everyone making their stops; watching the order as they leave pitlane........Dixon beats everyone out and holds onto the lead; behind him in P2-P5 are Ryan Briscoe, Tony Kanaan, Dan Wheldon and Helio Castroneves

With the continued caution, a couple of drivers, most notably Castroneves, Patrick and Carpenter, dive back into pitlane to top off.......can they make it the remaining 52 laps?

Green flag! Green flag! 151 laps in the books as Dixon leads them down to turn 1 for the restart.............

Kanaan tries to pass Castroneves entering turn 3, can't quite get it done.......Castroneves holds onto 2nd

155 laps in the books; top-5 at the moment
Dixon, Kanaan, Briscoe, Wheldon and Carpenter; Castroneves and Patrick are in conservation mode it seems as they have dropped back to 6th and 7th respectively while Carpenter is on the leaders' draft and isn't conserving ethanol

Hunter-Reay passes Patrick for 7th; Dixon continues to lead, 1.3 seconds over Kanaan