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Indianapolis 500 race day

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Alonso says his balance is largely neutral but with a bit of understeer of corner exit. Alonso is reminded that his weightjacker is an option.
It's 10 laps since the leaders pitted.
Replays show Lazier spun pretty early in the corner and hit the wall with the front-left of his car.
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Outside the top ten following Lazier's crash

11. Carpenter
12. Rahal
13. Chilton
14. Servia
15. Hildebrand
16. Davison
17. Andretti
18. Hinchcliffe
19. Karam
20. Pagenaud
21. Jones
22. Kimball
23. Chaves
24. Munoz
25. Saavedra
26. Mann
Crash
1996 Indy 500 winner Lazier's 20th Indy 500 has come to an end in the Turn 2 wall.
Yellow flag
The caution is out.
Crash
Lazier crashes.
Davison has stayed out. Replays show that he damaged the wing clipping the back of Servia.
Davison is being flagged to pit because he has a loose front wing.
Hunter-Reay's lead is coming down, unsurprisingly.
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Top 10 after 120 of 200 laps

1. Hunter-Reay
2. Alonso
3. Rossi
4. Castroneves
5. Power
6. Newgarden
7. Kanaan
8. Rahal
9. Sato
10. Montoya
Stopwatch
Sato sets fastest lap.
Alonso goes past Rossi to take second.
Hunter-Reay's lead over Rossi is just under four seconds.
The order is: Hunter-Reay, Rossi, Alonso, Castroneves, Power, Newgarden, Kanaan, Sato, Rahal, Montoya, Chilton, Carpenter.
Stopwatch
Andretti, down in 18th, sets fastest lap with a 225.842mph.
Castroneves, who is offset by eight or nine laps from the other leaders on pitstop timing, is now in fourth.
Hunter-Reay has gained through that sequence of pitstops, as he now has a pretty big lead over Rossi and Alonso.
Rahal pits and heads back out.
Radio Comms
Lots of chatter to Alonso from his spotters as he comes out into traffic.
Rahal leads from Montoya and Carpenter. They have yet to pit.
Not a great stop for Alonso either, who has a little more front wing dialled in.
Alonso, Kanaan and Newgarden are among those pitting at the end of lap 113.
Not the quickest of stops for Rossi, who was stopped for over nine seconds.
Radio Comms
"Pit now," Alonso is told.
Rossi heads to the pits under green conditions.
Newgarden is now up to sixth place.
Alonso checks up while trying to lap Chilton, which allows Rahal to blast past him on the back straight on lap 110 to take third.
The three Andretti cars are working together up front.
Rossi has the lead from Hunter-Reay and Alonso, with Rahal moving up to fourth place ahead of Kanaan.
LAT Images: The iconic view of the Indy 500 start line

LAT Images: The iconic view of the Indy 500 start line

All of the top 20 cars are now on the same pit strategy having stopped 24 laps ago.
Chilton makes his stop as well.
A clean stop for Castroneves, a 7.3s one, and he comes out in 26th.
Hunter-Reay is now in the lead.
Castroneves pits, perhaps a bit earlier than might be expected. Perhaps a consequence of running up front.
Chilton has now been shuffled back to eighth.
Hunter-Reay takes second from Rossi into Turn 2 while his team-mate was sitting behind Castroneves.

By: Matt Beer

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