Partly cloudy day in Indianapolis. Nicole says temperatures are expected to be above 90 degrees. Fluffy clouds, but with some darkness in them. Looks like there might be rain – a pop-up shower – in the late afternoon, if their weather/cloud patterns are similar to ours. I miss Mari Hulman George doing the call. Tony George did the call. The guy who did My Indiana Home was dreadful. I hope we don’t get tortured by that again. He was loud, but sounded like someone making fun of the way Jim Nabors sang. Awful.
Indy hometown boy Ed Carpenter leads the field to the green.
Lap 47 of 200 James Davison has crashed bringing out the yellow flag.
Takuma Sato was collected.
James Davison was so slow on the track Takuma ended up running over him.
Caution on lap 58 of 200 for a crash by Ed Jones.
Caution on lap 68 of 200 for a crash by Danica ‘Lil Dude’ Patrick.
Ed Jones has been transported to IM Methodist Hospital complaining of neck pain and a headache.
Ambient temperature of 92. Track temperature 124.
Caution on lap 139 of 200 for a wreck by Sebastian Bourdais.
Caution on lap 147 of 200 for a wreck by Helio Castroneves.
Caution lap 155 of 200 for a wreck by Sage Karam.
Caution on lap 188 of 200 for a crash by Tony ‘TK’ Kanaan.
Restarting on lap 193 of 200 with Oriol Servia in the lead.
Stefan Wilson had to pit with five laps to go giving up the lead to Will Power.
Will Power wins.
Allen Bestwick says the crowd was more than 300,000 people.
Congrats to Ed Carpenter on his second place finish.
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