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Lap 60: The gaps are now static in the top five with no imminent challenges among them. Dixon still ahead of Wheldon, Kanaan, Scheckter and Marco Andretti fifth.
Lap 59: Danica Patrick is staging a comeback from that poor pit stop. The Japan winner is now up to 13th.
Lap 59: Darren Manning is running some good laps at 221 mph as he bids to catch the leading five cars.
Lap 58: The Vision Racing team are preparing to send their car back out after the earlier pit lane fire for AJ Foyt IV.
Lap 56: Tomas Scheckter is currently the fastest of the top five drivers and is homing in on the leading three. Kanaan in front of him continues to stay very close to Dan Wheldon.
Lap 54: Scheckter makes a move on Andretti and slices inside the Indiana Jones-sponsored Andretti Green machine in turn one. Scheckter retakes fourth, Andretti fifth.
Lap 53: The Target Chip Ganassi cars of Scott Dixon and Dan Wheldon continue to lead the field. Tony Kanaan is third, hanging onto their tails. Marco Andretti is fourth, with Tomas Scheckter in fifth place.
Lap 52: Ryan Briscoe has lost out badly after pitting just before the caution came out. He now runs 26th and has work to do.
Lap 50: Marco Andretti has moved in front of Tomas Scheckter and takes over fourth position.
Meantime Wheldon makes a move on Dixon but tucks in behind and remains second to his teammate.
Meantime Wheldon makes a move on Dixon but tucks in behind and remains second to his teammate.
Lap 49: Darren Manning runs sixth with Ed Carpenter, Helio Castroneves, Vitor Meira and Hideki Mutoh making up the top ten as we approach quarter distance.
Lap 46: The Ganassi duo hold the first two positions on the restart with little challenge coming from Tony Kanaan behind them.
Lap 46: The pack hammers towards turn one as they are back to racing.
Lap 45: Scott Dixon controls the pace as the field comes off the short chute and into turn four accelerating hard.
Lap 45: One lap to go before the restart.
Lap 45: AJ Foyt IV is climbing back into his car and they are going to try and get him back out on the track after that unfortunate pit incident.
Lap 44: The slow stop for Danica Patrick is finally replayed, showing troubles for the left front wheel man on the Andretti Green team.
Lap 43: Back on the track Scott Dixon reassumes the lead of the race, with Dan Wheldon in second. The 500 has been dominated by Ganassi so far today. Tony Kanaan is again third, with Tomas Scheckter fourth and Helio Castroneves in the leading Penske in fifth place.
Lap 43: Once again the caution has been extended by a second incident. Track teams continue to clean up in both turn four and the pit lane, where water from fighting the Foyt fire is running across the road.
Lap 41: The young member of the Foyt dynasty has no serious injuries from the fire.
Lap 41: AJ Foyt IV is out of the race, after his car caught fire during a bad pitstop.
Lap 40: Danica Patrick had a terrible pit stop and has fallen way down the order.
Lap 40: Most of the field now pit under yellow. Dixon had just taken the lead from Wheldon before the yellow came out.
Lap 39: Ryan Briscoe reportedly pitted to try and resolve a vibration on the number six car.
Lap 39: Replays show that Rahal was making good progress through the field passing easily on the inside of the racetrack. Through turn four the 19-year-old then tried a move on the outside, moved up into the grey and pushed out and grazed the wall.
Lap 38: Graham Rahal has crashed in turn four, glancing the wall and he is out of the race.
Lap 38: The race comes under yellow for the second time.
Lap 37: Ryan Briscoe is on pitroad and this is unscheduled. An early stop for the Australian plus a front wing adjustment and he's away again.
Lap 36: So with those stops the order now is Wheldon continuing to lead it, from Dixon, Kanaan, Scheckter and Helio Castroneves in fifth.
Lap 35: Both drivers rejoin the fray but have gone a lap down.
Lap 34: Justin Wilson pits from third position and that's an early negative for the British driver. Rice also comes in from fourth place.
Lap 34: Wilson and Rice of course are hoping for yellow so that they can make a gain during their pitstop.
Lap 31: Wheldon, from Dixon, Wilson, Rice and Kanaan continue round as our top five. Wilson making it a leading trio up front, but his crew are getting ready for his first stop.
Lap 30: Bruno Junqueira has returned to the track, having been forced by IndyCar officials to replace his lost mirror.
Lap 28: Pitstops will be due soon for the two drivers who stayed out during that first caution - Justin Wilson and Buddy Rice.
If they are forced to pit under green they risk going a lap down at this early stage of the race.
If they are forced to pit under green they risk going a lap down at this early stage of the race.
Lap 26: The front runners are now settling down into a groove again. Justin Wilson in third is hanging on well to the back of the two Target Chip Ganassi cars, as the three of them begin to stretch out a gap over Buddy Rice in fourth.
Lap 25: Brit Darren Manning is moving through the pack in the AJ Foyt car and is running eleventh.
Lap 23: Danica Patrick is now looking to catch the Penske of Brisco for ninth.
Lap 23: So Wheldon leads the race now, ahead of Scott Dixon, Justin Wilson and Buddy Rice. Tony Kanaan is keeping touch in the fifth position.
Lap 22: Scott Dixon moved swiftly into second behind his teammate, before Wilson then passed Rice as well.
Lap 21: Marco Andretti is moving up, passing Ryan Briscoe for eighth.
By: Geoff Creighton, Emlyn Hughes
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