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Race control reporting Andretti is done for the night; team reporting his gearbox is, in their words, "fried"..............

Looks like everyone has made their stops............

Top-5 at the moment........Hornish, Wheldon, Dixon, Patrick and Castroneves; Patrick tried to go 3-wide with Dixon and Wheldon but couldn't make it stick, so she falls back in line, still in 4th...........

Passing lap 151............IMS radio interviewing Marco; he sounds as though he's just having an awful year; 6 DNF's in the first 7 races....what else could happen this year?

Hornish must be on rocket fuel; now leading by 4.8 seconds over Wheldon; the next 5 cars are spearated by less than 8/10th's of a second.........

Franchitti now in 6th, passing Castroneves.........

Passing lap 158............Hornish still leading

Patrick and Kanaan side-by-side for 4th and 5th.........Kanaan now in 4th

Looks like Patrick lost a little momentum trying to hold off Kanaan; Franchitti passes her for 5th

Hornish still leading by 4.8 seconds over Wheldon

Passing lap 160 of 228..................Hornish still leading; lead now 4.9 seconds over Wheldon, Dixon still in 3rd...........

Hornish still the class of the field, now leading by over 5 seconds in front of Wheldon; next 6 cars still separated by less than 1.1 seconds

Wheldon and Dixon fighting for 2nd-3rd; Dixon briefly held 2nd, but Wheldon re-took the spot........Hornish still leads.............

Patrick had to check-up a bit to pass Duno; Castroneves and Franchitti took the opportunity to pass her, dropping her to 7th(memo to Milka........keep up the pace, please! )

Hornish still leading; his lead now up to 5.9 seconds

Radio traffic from Patrick, Franchitti and Castroneves to their teams had one thing in common..............PARK THE 23!!

Hornish still leading(what else is new at the moment.......) with a near-7 second lead

I feel sorry for Scheckter; he's 30 or so laps down and he's running faster laps than Hornish!!!

Hornish now has led the most laps; he'll get the three bonus points for leading the most laps..........

181 laps in the books........top-5 at the moment are Hornish, Wheldon, Dixon, Kanaan and Castroneves

Memo to the Iron Hand of Justice(a/k/a Brian Barnhart).....get the #23 off the track before someone wrecks, please?

Final round of stops are about to commence........race control reporting Castroneves should be the first to enter the pits.........

Castroneves in for his final stop of the night; fuel and tires...........

Hornish now enters pitlane; no wing changes, fuel and tires........good stop, about 9.2 seconds

Most of the others still out..........

And some of the drivers tried to stretch the fuel; race control reporting Sarah Fisher is on the apron, out of fuel, trying to nurse the car around.............

Frontrunners beginning to pit...Wheldon in, Kanaan in, Meira follows; Sharp enters pitlane................Fisher still limping towards pitroad