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Checkered flag
IndyCar - Pocono: The race finishes under yellow, and Hunter-Reay secures the win ahead of Newgarden and Montoya, who has nicely restocked his points lead ahead of the Sonoma finale.
Yellow flag
IndyCar - Pocono: Problems for Chaves - it looks like he's blown his engine.
IndyCar - Pocono: Big move from Hunter-Reay to take the lead with five laps to go; Newgarden is second, Montoya is P3.
Green flag
IndyCar - Pocono: Restart.
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IndyCar - Pocono:
@IndyCar: Justin Wilson is being airlifted to Lehigh Valley Health Network Cedar Crest Hospital. No additional information is available at this time.
@IndyCar: Justin Wilson is being airlifted to Lehigh Valley Health Network Cedar Crest Hospital. No additional information is available at this time.
IndyCar - Pocono: Still under caution with 14 laps to go, and Chaves is the leader ahead of Sato and Montoya. There has been no update regarding Wilson's condition, although we're seeing the medical chopper being prepared for an airlift.
IndyCar - Pocono: We're now hearing that Wilson is out of his car. Replays show that Karam's car broke loose and snapped up into the wall nose-first. Wilson was running high to avoid the Ganassi, and it looks like he struck Karam's airborne nosecone. He may have been knocked unconscious, because the Andretti car just veered straight down into the inside wall.
IndyCar - Pocono: Both drivers require assistance, although Karam is now climbing out of his cockpit. He's in some discomfort, but he's walking unaided - albeit with a light limp. Safety crews are concentrating their efforts on Wilson's car.
Crash
IndyCar - Pocono: Karam crashes out of the lead! That was a big, big impact, and Justin Wilson has been swept up in it as well.
IndyCar - Pocono: Now Karam's in the lead, and Sato loses another place to Chaves. Montoya is up to fourth.
IndyCar - Pocono: Sato's just taken the lead, with Newgarden and Karam behind him. Montoya passes Newgarden for fifth.
Green flag
IndyCar - Pocono: Restart. This one's a bit more conventional.
IndyCar - Pocono: It sounds like a lot of the teams weren't aware that the race was going green at that last restart. We can confirm that the cars were seven-wide.
IndyCar - Pocono: I've already worked up a draft of the race report for Autosport.com:
XXXX won. A lot of weird things happened. There was a fox.
I'll fill in the gap at the end. Job done.
XXXX won. A lot of weird things happened. There was a fox.
I'll fill in the gap at the end. Job done.
IndyCar - Pocono: This is the tenth caution. The top three took off at that restart, but for some reason everybody behind them fanned out rather than charging forward. Castroneves just got too high and spun. He's fine, but that was quite literally the strangest restart I've ever seen.
A lot of cars are pitting again for a top-up, including Montoya and Power. With 32 laps to go, that little group won't have to worry about fuel saving from here on. Up front, an off-sequence Wilson leads from Hunter-Reay and Sato.
A lot of cars are pitting again for a top-up, including Montoya and Power. With 32 laps to go, that little group won't have to worry about fuel saving from here on. Up front, an off-sequence Wilson leads from Hunter-Reay and Sato.
Yellow flag
IndyCar - Pocono: And Castroneves is in the wall.
Green flag
IndyCar - Pocono: The fox is fine, by the way. Anyhow, here's the restart. The mid-pack is seven-wide!
IndyCar - Pocono: Hunter-Reay leads the pack into the pits, and wins the race back out onto the track. Question is, will they have to stop once more?
Yellow flag
IndyCar - Pocono: There's a fox on the track. A FOX.
IndyCar - Pocono: Hunter-Reay takes the lead from Pagenaud; Karam is third.
Green flag
IndyCar - Pocono: Restart. In keeping with the flavour of the day its chaotic but somehow everybody keeps it clean.
IndyCar - Pocono: Andretti reports that he is fine aside from a bang to the outside of his right knee.
IndyCar - Pocono: He's out of the car but is limping. A replay shows that the rear snapped all by itself - something must have broken on the car, because it started to rotate before he reached the corner. It looked like a hard impact
Yellow flag
IndyCar - Pocono: And another crash. This time it's Marco Andretti.
Green flag
IndyCar - Pocono: Restart
IndyCar - Pocono: Power intially won the race off pit road but then bogged down and was swamped. Kimball is the current leader, but he's off-sequence. Chaves and Pagenaud are just behind.
Yellow flag
IndyCar - Pocono: Kanaan has crashed out.
IndyCar - Pocono: Nobody really wants to lead at the moment - Castroneves spent a couple of laps up front, and has now relinquished the position back to Chaves. Castroneves is second ahead of Karam, Kanaan and Power.
Green flag
IndyCar - Pocono: Restart, and Power soars around the outside and into the lead.
IndyCar - Pocono: Chaves currently leads, but the BHA rookie is off-sequence. Behind him are Wilson and Power, who have about 10 laps more fuel, and then Karam ahead of Pagenaud as the leader of the 'conventional strategy' group.
Yellow flag
IndyCar - Pocono: Contact between Carpenter and Jakes ... and then almost a pitlane shunt when Kanaan is released into the path of Montoya. JPM was lucky there.
IndyCar - Pocono: And Karam takes the lead!
IndyCar - Pocono: Restart. Pagenaud leads from Karam and Kanaan.
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IndyCar - Pocono: Tristan Vautier:
"It’s a tough one. I thought I had a run, I was almost alongside. We were three wide and I don’t think Wilson knew that. I didn’t get any room and I thought I deserved to get some room. I feel bad; [Rahal] was a the championship contender and a Honda, so I am always going to look like the bad guy."
"It’s a tough one. I thought I had a run, I was almost alongside. We were three wide and I don’t think Wilson knew that. I didn’t get any room and I thought I deserved to get some room. I feel bad; [Rahal] was a the championship contender and a Honda, so I am always going to look like the bad guy."
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IndyCar - Pocono: Graham Rahal: "Wilson and I were going thorugh Turn 2 and Justin lost momentum so I stuck in inside of him, so we ran down to Turn 3 together and Vautier decided to join the party at the last minute.
"He says I turned in on him but there’s no space [to do that]. He’s not the sharpest one around here and that’s fine. Disappointed; we’re down but not out.
"The shame of today is that when we were ahead of Montoya our car was better. They couldn’t keep up. Next thing you know we couldn’t fuel and fell back, and as they say, when you’re back with the squirrels, you’re bound to get your nuts cracked."
"He says I turned in on him but there’s no space [to do that]. He’s not the sharpest one around here and that’s fine. Disappointed; we’re down but not out.
"The shame of today is that when we were ahead of Montoya our car was better. They couldn’t keep up. Next thing you know we couldn’t fuel and fell back, and as they say, when you’re back with the squirrels, you’re bound to get your nuts cracked."
IndyCar - Pocono: That was an all-Honda shunt, too. Wilson appears to have escaped without damage, and is currently showing in 15th.
IndyCar - Pocono: Rahal was side by side with Wilson in Turn 3; Vautier decided to stick his car in underneath and make it three-wide. That was never going to work. Rahal would have had no idea Vautier was there until he made contact with the Coyne car. That was a big impact, and could have a huge bearing on the championship.
IndyCar - Pocono: Rahal shouts at the Frenchman for a solid 30s, and the pair are led away.
IndyCar - Pocono: That was a big shunt. Rahal is out of his car and is marching over to Vautier's wreckage. The safety crew is trying to keep them apart.
Crash
IndyCar - Pocono: Restart ... and Rahal has been taken out by Tristan Vautier!
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