News On F1 Forums - Talk Formula 1

Patrick took the lead for one lap, but now enters pitroad........good stop, about 9 seconds

Race control reporting that Fisher ran out of fuel just past pitout and had to limp the entire way around on an empty tank

Caution's out...............race control throws the caution............looking to see what happened; big crash in turns 1-2, looks like 5 or 6 cars, trying to see who's involved

Wheldon up along the wall; Foyt, IV limping into pitroad...........one of the Penske cars involved..................Carpenter also involved, Fisher involved......

Dixon in......and Dixon's done for the night; right-rear suspension damage

Looks like it will be a long caution...................about a half/dozen cars involved

Race control reporting that Dixon, as he was avoiding Fisher, clipped the #5 car and that's what started the whole chain rolling....................race control also reporting that the #14 of Darren Manning was involved; he has brought his car onto pitlane...........

Right now, the priority for race control is.........
--cleaning up the debris field in turns 1-2
--sorting out the field from front-to-back
--getting the cars bunched up for what will be a sprint to the finish

Drivers involved.........Wheldon, Castroneves, Fisher, Carpenter, Dixon, Manning(one Penske, two Ganassi's.........I'd say the points standings will look a bit different.........)

From the ESPN feed, it looks as though Chip Ganassi is steamed; he just looks like he's in shock from finding out BOTH of his cars are out!

Top-5 as the caution continues..............Hornish, Kanaan, Patrick, Franchitti and Meira

Race control reporting that the pits are now open; don't expect anyone to make a stop.........everyone should be good 'til the end

Carpenter not happy as he's being interviewed; he saw Foyt's rear-tire come off and said that it was the Target cars of Wheldon and Dixon who drove right up the gearbox of the #20; Wheldon being interviewed......doens't sound too chipper(maybe he's realizing it was his fault........)

And we are back to green! Hornish separates from the front; backmarkers getting in the mix as well...........

Kanaan and Patrick clearing the backmarkers; Hornish starting to increase his lead...........

It is a sprint race; Kanaan and Patrick now trying to reel in Hornish.........both the #11 and #7 ran faster laps than the #6

Kanaan still reeling in Hornish; Patrick still 3rd..........

Kanaan and Hornish now a carlength apart; Patrick a second back, but running faster laps than the two frontrunners...............

Kanaan setting up Hornish for a pass.............can't make it stick; Patrick still 3rd; still running faster than the first two, but can she reel 'em in?

Patrick now .45 sec. behind Kanaan; it's now a three-car fight; 11 laps remaining..............

First three cars less than a qtr.-sec. btwn them; Patrick makes a move inside of Kanaan

Hornish still leads, but watch Kanaan and Patrick..........one of these three will win tonight!

Kanaan still 2nd; Patrick still 3rd

7 laps remaining................top-3 still unchanged!