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Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 3:07 am
by mlittle
Cars beginning to make their way around the track............
Cars will make two pace laps; green flag to be displayed third time around......
Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 3:07 am
by mlittle
All cars away from the grid.
Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 3:10 am
by mlittle
Cars heading down the back-stretch, beginning to form up into the familiar rows of three.......
Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 3:11 am
by mlittle
GREEN FLAG! GREEN FLAG!
The race has begun...............
Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 3:12 am
by mlittle
mlittle wrote:GREEN FLAG! GREEN FLAG!
The race has begun...............
And they've waved off the start..............looks like Castroneves jumped the start........
Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 3:13 am
by mlittle
Let's try again...........
GREEN FLAG! Cars racing into turn 1
Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 3:14 am
by mlittle
CAUTION! Turn 2...................
Looks like the #5 of Moraes and the #26 of Marco Andretti.........Moraes slides to a stop on the back-stretch while Marco limps his way to the pitlane......
Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 3:16 am
by mlittle
Replay showing that the #26 tapped the back right of the #5 and sent him into the wall........looks as though the #26 is done for the day...........
Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 3:19 am
by mlittle
Lap 2: The crew is taking Marco's car back to the garage for possible repairs.
Even so, his chances of winning are nil.
Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 3:23 am
by mlittle
Listening to the IMS feed, it sounds as though Marco and Moraes are blaming each other for the accident.......
Three drivers(Duno, Tagliani, Viso) pit to top off for fuel.......
Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 3:24 am
by mlittle
Lights still flashing on the pace car...........race control reporting possible problems on the #02 of Graham Rahal
Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 3:24 am
by mlittle
And we're back to green!
Franchitti takes the lead going into one...........
Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 3:25 am
by mlittle
Franchitti continues to lead from Castroneves and Dixon
Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 3:26 am
by mlittle
Castroneves tries to pass Franchitti down the front-stretch; slots back into position going through one
Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 3:27 am
by mlittle
Top-6 in the field have broken away a little bit from the field
Franchitti, Castroneves, Briscoe, Dixon, Kanaan, Rahal