INDY 500: Live Report - Carb Day

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1:21 pm: Extraordinary! Stoneman gets a run on Jones around the back of the circuit and they run through the last two corners side-by-side. They're still line astern on the run to the checker, and Stoneman wins by just 0.0024s. What a finish.

1:20pm: Piedrahita ran into the back of Stoneman on the run to the line on the restart! Piedrahita falls back, while Jones passes Stoneman into Turn 1 ...

1:17pm: Having now seen a replay of Choi's accident, he's lucky not to have sustained more damage - he lost it all by himself in Turn 1 and bounced off the wall. Meanwhile, Dalton Kellett clipped the wall on the main straight and touched Jones, although they appeared to have gotten away with it. Restart next time around; one-lap shootout.

1:15 pm: Yellow for Heamin Choi, who has stopped on the inside of Turn 2. Just as that happened, Stoneman and Piedrahita had gone through the first two corners side-by-side, but Stoneman remains in the lead. With four laps to go, will there be enough time for a restart?

1:14 pm: Stoneman is back in front, but the guy to watch is Piedrahita, who is on a charge - he just took second from Jones, and nearly got past Stoneman at the same time. Five laps to go.

1:13 pm: Back to green, and Jones gets the jump on Stoneman and takes the lead into Turn 1. Piedrahita thinks he has half a chance of getting past Stoneman as well, but Stoneman closes the door.

1:11pm: Caution to rescue Santi Urrutia's car from the track - he had a huge spin, but fortunately, he went towards the infield rather than up into the wall. Doesn't look like there was any damage.

1:07 pm: Jones is back in front - and as we type that, Stoneman reclaims the lead. There's been a position change immediately behind them too, where Juan Piedrahita has taken third from Blackstock.

1:03 pm: Zachary Claman de Melo and Andre Negrao are both in the pits with assorted problems. No such drama up at the front, where it's still Stoneman leading from Jones and Blackstock.

12:58 pm: Stoneman leads again with Jones right on his tail. Shelby Blackstock is up to P3, and Veach is making a liar of us by staying out on track. That said, he has dropped to 10th. Meanwhile, Kyle Kaiser has been checked and released from the medical center.

12:55 pm: Jones is back past Stoneman again, but the more interesting stuff is happening right behind them, where Zach Veach is battling Enerson for second. The pair made contact, and Enerson has pitted for repairs. We'd be surprised if Veach doesn't follow him in sometime soon.

12:54 pm: Stoneman back into the lead, and Enerson follows him past Jones for second. There are still 30 laps to go.

12:52 pm: Restart on lap 7, and Stoneman gets past Serralles. A couple of corners later he takes the lead from Jones, and then loses it again almost immediately. Now he's running side-by-side with RC Enerson. 

12:48 pm: The Indy Lights Freedom 100 is underway - and under yellows. The first attempted start was waved off, the race went green at the second attempt, and then went yellow again when Kyle Kaiser snagged the Turn 4 wall at the end of the first lap. Ed Jones currently leads from Felix Serralles and Dean Stoneman.

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12:10 pm: And that's it. The checkered flag waves, and Tony Kanaan's 226.280mph remained unbeaten. Carlos Munoz was second-fastest ahead Scott Dixon, with Will Power and Ryan Hunter-Reay rounding out the top five.

12:05 pm: It's a frantically busy final few minutes of practice here - by our count, there are 25 cars on track. One of the few who is not is Buddy Lazier, who has completed a field low of 19 laps today, with a best of 209.981mph.

12:00 pm: We were so busy trying to work out how Pippa found the wall that we completely neglected to tell you that Tony Kanaan is now the session leader at 226.280mph. Ten minutes to go.

11:52 am: Green flag.

11:51 am: Still waiting for the debris from Mann's accident to be mopped up so that we can get this session back underway, but we've gotten word that Mann has been checked, released, and cleared to drive. This is her second crash during the build-up to the race. Last week's was caused by a rear wing fence-end failure, and Mann took a long look at the rear of her car after climbing out of this morning's wreckage.

11:43 am: Pippa Mann has hit the wall at Turn 4. Not sure how it happened, but she was sideways long before she hit the barrier. She's fine, although it looks like there's a fair bit of damage to the rear of the car. We're under yellows.

11:34 am: Marco Andretti is having an extended stay in the pits while the Andretti Autosport team works on a steering arm change. Elsewhere, there's also a bit of excitement in the vicinity of Buddy Lazier, who has been given two consecutive penalties for pit exit violations. James Hinchcliffe has also attraction some attention from race control, and has been issed a drive-through for pitlane speeding. While all of that is going on, Munoz is still in P1, and Scott Dixon has moved up to P2.

11:24 am: Carlos Munoz goes to P1 with a 224.772mph. It's starting to look quite Honda-ey at the top of the timing screens - Power is still in P2, but behind him are Ryan Hunter-Reay, Townsend Bell, Mikhail Aleshin, James Hinchcliffe, Graham Rahal and Takuma Sato.

11:20 am: IndyCar has announced that the session will be extended by 10 minutes.

11:19 am: Townsend Bell moves to the top with a 223.971mph, and is beaten almost immediately by Will Power's 224.384mph.

11:17 am: Ganassi is setting the early pace, with Scott Dixon being the first driver to break the 223mph mark this morning with a 223.054mph effort. That beat the previous benchmark of 222.788mph, which was set by teammate Tony Kanaan.

11:12 am: Back to green, and everyone is tripping over each other trying to get out of pitlane.

11:00 am: Green flag for the final hour of practice for the 100th Running of the Indianapolis 500 ... and we're already under yellows for debris. Only eight cars managed to poke their noses out of pitlane before the caution flags came out.