Dario Franchitti, attempting to get his third Indy 500 earn and following from a row, led this year's battle with 100 kilometers to go Sunday.
Oriol Servia of Spain was second, plus Graham Rahal seemed to be lastly after establishing entirely to come back inside 29th inside the 33-car field. His father, Bobby Rahal, earned the Indianapolis 500 with 1986.
Franchitti teammate Scott Dixon regarding New Zealand has been next in addition to Tony Kanaan sixth seeing that above 200,000 viewed about at this Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Danica Patrick have recharged in order to seventh following starting off 25th but fell returning to 12th following on from the latest restart.
Alex Tagliani, that pole-sitter, also appeared to be going while in the prime 10, nevertheless the Canadian lost control and scraped the Turn four wall structure upon Lap 147, stopping his race.
And on Lap 156, Ryan Briscoe and Townsend Bell involving Pacific Palisades collided and slammed to the wall. Briscoe motoring for your powerful Team Penske, and also his two teammates as well had been using a sub standard day. Will Power had been 15th after burning off a wheel beginning throughout the particular race, as well as Helio Castroneves had been 19th.
Despite fears of far more wrecks, the employment of "double-file restarts" right after extreme care durations applied to get at first chance at Indy this year were being mainly unencumbered with accidents but nerve-wracking seeing that that cars restarted also instead of sole file as they definitely reached rates with a lot more than 220 mph.
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Photo: Dario Franchitti leads Scott Dixon past due inside the 100th husband's battle belonging to the Indianapolis five hundred with Sunday. Credit: Kamil Krzaczynski / EPA
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