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The 92nd Indy 500
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Lap 169: Ryan Hunter-Reay is out on his own in fifth, as Meira continues to lead the Indy 500 with just over 30 laps to go. Marco Andretti is now closing up on Helio Castroneves.
Lap 169: Ryan Hunter-Reay leads the chasing pack in fifth from Ed Carpenter, Danica Patrick, Ryan Briscoe, Buddy Rice and a recovering Darren Manning.
Lap 167: The top four are beginning to break away from the rest of the field.
Lap 166: Meira continues out in front, with Dixon now coming under pressure from Helio Castroneves.
Lap 162: Vitor Meira leads, from Dixon, Castroneves and Marco Andretti as Ed Carpenter slides rapidly through the field.
Lap 161: Scott Dixon immediately makes a move on Carpenter for the lead, but Vitor Meira slices between the two of them to lead at Indianapolis!
Lap 160: The pace car comes down pitroad and we are back to green flag racing.
Lap 160: Ed Carpenter leads the field towards start-finish.
Lap 159: Dan Wheldon has made a further pit stop as the Ganassi driver continues to struggle.
Lap 157: Tomas Scheckter, who was fourth, has a problem in the pits and his climbing out of the car. Scheckter's strong run is over and the South African is out of the race, after a halfshaft failure.
Lap 157: Dixon is off first from Meira and Castronves. Marco Andretti lost a couple of positions.
Lap 157: The whole field come in with the exception of Ed Carpenter, and he takes over the lead while everyone else pits.
Lap 156: The pits are now open and we expect most of the field to stop this time round.
Lap 155: Alex Lloyd pushed up in turn four and glanced the wall lightly with his right rear wheel. The wheel was dislodged from its mounting and Lloyd then spun sideway down to the inside, and coincidentally into the pitlane, where he continued to slide for a further few seconds. Fortunately no-one was around and Lloyd slid harmlessly to a standstill.
Lap 154: Lloyd is unhurt after sliding into the pitlane following a turn four crash.
Lap 154: Alex Lloyd has crashed in the pitlane, and we see his car skating sideways to a halt on the pitroad. The safety crews are on pitroad quickly and attending to the crashed car.
The pits are closed.
The pits are closed.
Lap 154: Alex Lloyd has crashed into the pitlane to bring caution to the speedway.
Lap 152: 21 cars remain on the lead lap as Scott Dixon continues to lead the race ahead of Marco Andretti, with Tomas Scheckter in third.
Lap 151: Three-quarters of the 92nd Indy 500 is now in the books.
Lap 151: Dan Wheldon's challenge for a second victory in the 500 is all but over as he slides down the order to 14th.
Lap 149: Townsend Bell sends an incredible pass on the inside into turn one as he passes both Manning and Wheldon in a single move.
Lap 148: Tomas Scheckter is marginally faster than Dixon and Andretti on the last lap as he turns a lap of 220 mph against their 219s. The gap is static between the three of them.
Lap 147: Ryan Hunter-Reay slips up the inside of Danica Patrick in turn one as Ryan Briscoe also joins the battle over sixth.
Lap 144: Mario Moraes is a mobile chicane as the field explore all kinds of lines to get round him. A few drivers had narrow escapes trying to pass him, but they all made it and now Scott Dixon leads the race from Marco Andretti, Scheckter, Meira and Castroneves has moved up to fifth.
Lap 144: Helio runs fifth for Penske as they continue to recover from early stuggles. His teammate, Briscoe, is also back up to eighth.
Lap 142: Helio Castroneves is on the move forward as a slow Moraes causes a spate of near-misses.
Lap 140: Marco Andretti wastes no time in dusting off the rookie but Scott Dixon nails them both and takes over the lead in turn one, Andretti second, Moraes third.
Lap 140: Green, green, green call the spotters as we race once again.
Lap 139: Moraes leads the field down toward the restart.
Lap 138: Dan Wheldon has fallen to tenth for the restart but will hope that new tyres and adjustments will have improved his car.
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"I was running behind Darren (Manning) and experimenting with my lines, but as I came out of the corner the car began to go light, then I spun and hit the inside wall. That's how it goes I guess."
Justin Wilson, out of race.
Justin Wilson, out of race.
Lap 138: As they cross the line this time, it will be one lap to go before we are racing again.
Lap 138: Behind Moraes is Andretti, Dixon, Scheckter and Vitor Meira.
Lap 137: Mario Moraes now takes over the lead of the race, as he stayed out on the track while the rest of the field came in.
Lap 136: Ed Carpenter has killed the engine in his Menards entry leaving the pits, dropping him way down the order. The crew restart the car and he joins the back of the queue. Replays show that he didn't pull close enough to his pitbox entering the pits.
Lap 136: Marco Andretti leads them off from Dixon and Scheckter.
Lap 135: Almost the entire field come into the pits on this lap under yellow.
Lap 135: The field is streaming in to the pit lane for another round of stops.
Lap 134: Wilson has climbed from the car and seems to have avoided injury.
Lap 134: There isn't a lot of damage on the car other than the rear wing was broken and hanging off the car as he brought the car to a stop on the inside of turn two.
By: Geoff Creighton, Emlyn Hughes
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