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Watching the race coverage, it looked as though Meira tapped the rear of Castroneves, sending both drivers into the turn 1 wall..........

Think about this for a moment.....in 6 laps, Dario Franchitti moved from 18th-place(shotgun on the field)...to 2nd! Reminds you of Wheldon's 11-lap charge at Homestead back in March, doesn't it?

Third round of stops done..........care to guess who's leading? Wait for it, wait for it..............Franchitti's leading.


Top-5 at lap 62, Franchitti from Scheckter, then Dixon, Andretti and Manning...........

Race control reporting the green flag will come back out on lap 70..........and the green's back out!

lap leaders as of lap 70..........
Franchitti 54 laps
Dixon 14 laps
Hornish 1 lap
Kanaan 1 lap

Kanaan passes Manning for 4th
Hornish moves up from 15th to 13th

Several drivers are moving up to the front; Patrick, Hornish and Andretti have advanced a few spots in the past lap or so

Patrick moves up to 6th; the top-5, however, have a bit of separation btwn. themselves and Patrick

P1-P5 separated by less than a 1/2-second; P6-P7 .1 seconds apart and then the next few cars are separated by 1/2-second

Franchitti continues to lead; Kanaan drafts Dixon and tries to pass him, but can't quite get it done for 3rd; Patrick and Marco look to be working in lockstep, trying to reel in the front-5

Kanaan and Wheldon pass Dixon for 3rd; Dixon falls back to 5th.....passing lap 81

Scheckter tried to pass Franchitti for the lead in turn 1 but had to drop back into line; Patrick and Andretti still in lockstep and they are slowly reeling in the front-5

And we have our fifth caution of the day for a crash in turns 1 and 2; the #5 car of Sarah Fisher made very hard contact with the SAFER barrier; she is okay and has gotten out of the car unassisted


And, once again, everyone has filed down pitlane for another round of stops........

Top-5 rundown as we pass lap 86..........
1--Wheldon
2--Franchitti
3--Kanaan
4--Andretti
5--Dixon

Race control reporting that the race will be official on lap 101(past the halfway point of 200 laps)

Lights out on the safety car; engines coming up to full song and we're back to racing!

Watching the television feed, one can tell that everyone is on the gas; they think the weather's going to go south soon and it's back to a sprint race now.............three-wide down the backstretch; three-wide!