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AT 200 MILES

Scott Dixon yielded the lead briefly to teammate Dan Wheldon but regained it just before a caution flag at 200 miles in Sunday’s Indianapolis 500. Wheldon passed Dixon, the pole starter, on the 74th lap but went ahead again before rookie Jaime Camara crashed. Tony Kanaan was running third, and Marco Andretti was fourth. Dixon held a lead of more than 1 second over Wheldon after 60 laps, or 150 miles, but the yellow flag came out when Marty Roth, the oldest driver in the field, crashed coming out of the fourth turn. It was the same spot on the track where 19-year-old rookie Graham Rahal, the youngest in the lineup, crashed earlier in the race. The leaders then came in under yellow for routine pit stops, with Dixon, Wheldon and Kanaan maintaining their 1-2-3 positions and Andretti moving ahead of Tomas Scheckter for fourth. The biggest gain was by rookie Oriol Servia, who improved to 13th after starting 25th.

Top 10—1,Scott Dixon; 2,Dan Wheldon; 3,Tony Kanaan; 4,Marco Andretti; 5,Tomas Scheckter; 6,Ed Carpenter; 7,Vitor Meira; 8,Hideki Mutoh; 9,Ryan Hunter-Reay; 10,Townsend Bell.

Out of race—Graham Rahal, Marty Roth, Jaime Camara.

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AT 100 MILES Pole-starter Scott Dixon led teammate Dan Wheldon under caution after 100 miles Sunday in the Indianapolis 500. Wheldon, the 2005 Indy winner, had led most of the way, but Dixon passed him on the 37th lap just before the yellow flag came out for a crash by rookie Graham Rahal. That put Dixon ahead of Wheldon, Tony Kanaan and Tomas Scheckter as the field slowed behind the pace car. Wheldon started from the middle of the front row and passed Dixon, his Ganassi Racing teammate, for the lead on the third lap. Within the next five laps, he built his lead to .76 seconds before the first yellow when Bruno Junqueira’s mirror came off. The leaders all came in for their first pit stops during the caution, putting Junqueira temporarily in front, but he had to come into the pits for repairs and yielded the lead to Buddy Rice. Sarah Fisher, who was running third under the yellow, then spun in the warmup lane without contact and fell two laps off the pace by the time she got restarted. The green flag came out on the 18th lap, and two laps later Wheldon and Dixon passed Rice to take their 1-2 chase again. The leaders made their second stops during the caution for Rahal’s crash.

Top 10—1,Scott Dixon; 2,Dan Wheldon; 3,Tony Kanaan; 4,Tomas Scheckter; 5,Helio Castroneves; 6,Marco Andretti; 7,Ed Carpenter; 8,Darren Manning; 9,Vitor Meira; 10,Hideki Mutoh.

Out of race—Graham Rahal.