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the #27 team is laying out tires for a stop; so is the #7 crew as well

Mutoh enters pitlane; gives up the lead to Franchitti.............tires and fuel for the Formula Dream car...............Mutoh cycles back into the field in 17th

Moraes pits for tires and fuel..........
the #7 team is setting up for a stop........

111 lap-stint for the #7 as Patrick rolls into pitlane for her stop.........fuel and tires; she's away and will cycle back into 16th........


111 laps? Shades of Motegi?

Thing to remember about Mutoh and Patrick being on split strategies..........it will work on 2 conditions: (1)that are aren't any cautions during their respective stints and (2)that the remainder of the field stops as expected at about the same length of laps as they did

Top-5 after 125 laps
Franchitti, Dixon, Castroneves, Matos, Kanaan

Doornbos and RHR pit.................

Conway, Rahal, Wilson making their stops now.................

Closing in on halfway at Richmond
Matos pits from 4th

Wheldon pits from 10th

Viso pits from 8th
Dario pits from the lead

Most of the other cars yet to stop, Mutoh and Patrick excepted, are making their next round of stops...................


Caution's out...........................Conway hits the wall exiting turn 4 in about the same area that Moraes crashed during Friday's evening practice

I'm guessing on this one, but even with this caution, both Mutoh and Patrick should make their second round of stops around lap 225-235; most of the other cars, I would guess, will likely pit about 25 or so laps later, barring cautions................

140 laps in the books; top-5.................
Dixon, Franchitti, Rahal, Mutoh and Patrick

Race control reporting that the reason for the extended caution is that safety crews are sweeping up "marbles" along the inside and outside of turns 1 and 4