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Lap 92: Wheldon pulls to the inside and takes over the lead of the race from Scott Dixon.
Lap 92: The green is in the air and we are racing again at Indy.
Lap 91: Scott Dixon accelerates towards the start finish line.
Lap 90: The clean-up is now complete at turn two and we should be back to green soon at Indianapolis. One more lap of yellow and we'll be racing next time by. Dixon, Wheldon, Kanaan, Andretti, Scheckter and Carpenter is the top six.
Lap 89: It's another long caution to make the track ready for racing again.
Lap 87: The field are still being led down the warm-up lane in turn two as the recovery and track clean-up after the Jaime Camara crash is being completed.
Lap 85: Dixon, Wheldon, Kanaan, Andretti and Scheckter remain in the same order in the race off the pit road.
Lap 85: Ryan Briscoe has stayed out in the Penske as the field heads for the pits.
Lap 85: All but three cars pit this time round.
Lap 84: The mobile cleaning trucks are out in the turn two area putting oil-dry down to clear up the fluid dropped during the Camara incident. The pace car continues to lead the field round.
Lap 84: The pits have yet to open as clean-up continues in turn two.
Lap 82: Camara's Conquest Racing car is heavily damaged and has dropped a large amount of fluid across the race track.
Lap 82: The contact with the wall was considerable, and the right side of his car was wiped out. The car then slid down towards the inside of the track and the safety crews are now working to recover the car.
Lap 81: Jaime Camara has crashed heavily, and the rookie is out of the race. Similar to the Roth and Rahal accidents earlier, Camara got the push and slid up into the wall at turn two.
Lap 81: The caution is out again for a crash involving Jaime Camara.
Lap 81: The Ganassi duo continue to lead the pack around the speedway, with Wheldon now ahead of Dixon, who has Kanaan and Andretti closing up behind him.
Lap 78: Tony Kanaan once again begins to close up to the back of the two Target Ganassi cars. Kanaan is holding a watching brief and at this stage is content to keep the two leaders in sight.
Lap 76: Vitor Meira has slipped up to seventh in a hairy three-wide move involving Carpenter and Mutoh.
Lap 75: The front four now are beginning to pull away and leave Tomas Scheckter trailing in fifth.
Lap 73: Scott Dixon holds onto the lead through turns one and two in another static restart at the head of the field.
Lap 73: The field returns to green flag racing after another lengthy caution.
Lap 72: Dixon begins to accelerate and bring the field through turns three and four ahead of the restart.
Lap 72: The clean-up from the Roth accident is now complete, and we'll get the green flag next time by.
Lap 71: Darren Manning and Ryan Briscoe have pitted close to the restart, with both having fallen behind the leaders after hitting trouble.
Lap 71: At the front it has been a cautious race so far, with the favourites for victory well aware that it's the 200th and last lap of the race that counts the most.
Andretti and Scheckter have swapped positions a couple of times, but other than that it is a surprisingly tame 92nd running of the greatest spectacle in racing.
Andretti and Scheckter have swapped positions a couple of times, but other than that it is a surprisingly tame 92nd running of the greatest spectacle in racing.
Lap 70: Ed Carpenter runs sixth, ahead of Hideki Mutoh, Vitor Meira, Townsend Bell and John Andretti.
Lap 69: A lengthy yellow continues as the track teams continue to clean up from Roth's crash.
Lap 69: The pace car continues to lead the field round during our third caution period of the day. Dixon is the leader, with Ganassi teammate Dan Wheldon second, Tony Kanaan third, Marco Andretti fourth and Tomas Scheckter in fifth place.
Lap 68: Manning's team owner AJ Foyt is clearly unhappy about the pit lane incident.
Lap 67: Marty Roth's car is now lifted away from the racetrack to the infield, as the recovery crews continue to clean up the track surface at the exit of turn four.
Lap 67: Darren Manning's impressive run has hit a setback and he is forced to pit for repairs to his front wing after contact in the pits with Buddy Rice.
Lap 65: Marco Andretti picked up a spot at Scheckter's expense, and runs fourth.
Lap 65: Scott Dixon again beats Dan Wheldon and Tony Kanaan off pit road.
Lap 65: Most of the field pit this time round.
Lap 64: Helio came off turn four into the scene of the Roth crash, striking some debris and damaging the wing.
Lap 64: The recovery crews are out there on the course removing the crashed racecar of Marty Roth. The field continues to circulate behind the pace car.
Lap 63: Helio Castroneves has damage to the front wing on his Penske. He will have to replace the nose at this pit stop.
Lap 63: Roth, coming round turn four got way high into the dirt in the grey area on the outside of the racetrack, and washed up towards his destiny with the wall at the exit of the corner.
Roth is out of the car and seemingly ok.
Roth is out of the car and seemingly ok.
Lap 61: Marty Roth has brushed the wall coming out of turn four, and the 49-year-old is out of the race, in almost an action replay of the Rahal incident earlier.
Lap 60: The caution is out for the third time for a single car crash.
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