87th Indianapolis 500
100-Mile Mark
Michael Andretti, driving his last race, took the lead when rookie Scott Dixon ran out of fuel and had a 1.687-second lead over teammate Tony Kanaan after 100 miles in Sunday's Indianapolis 500.   Top 5 No.  Driver  1.  Michael Andretti  2.  Tony Kanaan  3.  Jimmy Vasser  4.  Robby Gordon  5.  Helio Castroneves    Andretti, who started 13th, took an early pit stop during a yellow caution and was in position to move up when the front-runners pitted later. Helio Castroneves, starting from the pole in his bid to become the first driver to win the Indy 500 three consecutive times, led the race until a crash by Sarah Fisher on the 15th lap. He took his first pit stop at that time, giving the lead to Dixon, who had not yet pitted. Airton Dare, who also had not made a pit stop, had moved up from 33rd to second. When he pitted on the 40th lap, Kanaan moved up to second behind Andretti. Castroneves was running fifth.

200-Mile Mark

Tomas Scheckter, running laps at more than 227 mph, passed Michael Andretti on the 68th lap and held a lead of less than one second over two-time defending champion Helio Castroneves.   Top 5 No.  Driver  1.  Tomas Scheckter  2.  Helio Castroneves  3.  Michael Andretti  4.  Gil de Ferran  5.  Tora Takagi    Andretti, who earlier lost the lead on a pit stop, went back in front in the 58th lap when Scheckter pitted. He kept the lead on the yellow when Richie Hearn and Jaques Lazier crashed, but one lap after the green came out, Scheckter passed him for the lead. Castroneves also passed Andretti for second place, 0.82 second behind Scheckter. Alex Barron, who started 25th, was up to eighth.

300-Mile Mark
Michael Andretti's last race as a driver ended just before the halfway point, and Tomas Scheckter led two-time defending champion Helio Castroneves by less than a half-second after 300 miles   Top 5 No.  Driver  1.  Tomas Scheckter  2.  Helio Castroneves  3.  Gil de Ferran  4.  Tony Kanaan  5.  Dan Wheldon    Andretti, retiring to run his new Andretti Green Racing team, led much of the early going but was passed by Scheckter on the 68th lap and then by Penske teammates Castroneves and Gil de Ferran before coming into the pits on the 90th lap. He lasted four more laps before his engine gave out for good, dropping him to 27th. Castroneves, the polesitter, stayed in the lead until his next pit stop, giving the lead briefly to Jimmy Vasser at 250 miles. Vasser went out with a bad engine on the next lap, however, and Scheckter went back into the lead. After 120 laps, Scheckter's lead over Castroneves was 0.36 second.

400-Mile Mark
Helio Castroneves, trying to become the first driver to win the Indianapolis 500 three years in a row, beat Tomas Scheckter onto the track after a pit stop and held a lead of less than one second over teammate Gil de Ferran with 100 miles remaining.   Top 5 No.  Driver  1.  Helio Castroneves  2.  Gil de Ferran  3.  Tony Kanaan  4.  Tomas Scheckter  5.  Tora Takagi    Scheckter, who led 85 laps as a rookie last year, led much of Sunday's race until a crash by Airton Dare on the 128th lap. The leaders then came in under the yellow and Castroneves, who had the pit nearest the track entrance, came out first. After the green came out six laps later, de Ferran and Tony Kanaan also passed Scheckter and were running second and third, both within a half-second of Castroneves. Castroneves started widening the lead slightly and was in front by 0.88 second over de Ferran and 1.46 seconds over Kanaan after 160 laps.

500-Mile Mark
Gil de Ferran took the lead after a late flurry of pit stops and beat teammate Helio Castroneves, the two-time defending champion and polesitter, by 0.299 second Sunday to win the Indianapolis 500.   Top 5 No.  Driver  1.  Gil de Ferran  2.  Helio Castroneves  3.  Tony Kanaan  4.  Tomas Scheckter  5.  Tora Takagi    Castroneves, trying to become the first to win Indy three years in a row, led de Ferran by just under one second before all the leaders started coming in for their final pit stops with about 35 laps to go. Tony Kanaan, Tomas Scheckter and then rookie Tora Takagi all led briefly before de Ferran went in front when Takagi pitted with 30 laps remaining. A yellow caution came out with 19 laps to go when Scott Sharp crashed, and again with 12 laps remaining when rookie Dan Wheldon crashed, went airborne and landed upside-down. Wheldon, replacing the retiring Michael Andretti the rest of the season, climbed out of the car and appeared unharmed. The green came out with six laps to go, setting up the final charge to the checkered flag. Castroneves couldn't catch his teammate, who held on for his first victory at Indy and extended car owner Roger Penske's record number of wins to 13.