Lap-by-Lap
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Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Crown Royal presents the Curtiss Shaver 400 at the Brickyard
POS CAR DRIVER LAP SPEED BEHIND LED
1 Kasey Kahne 301 125.393 0.000 66
2 Denny Hamlin 301 123.855 2.738 151
3 Clint Bowyer 301 123.702 5.435 1
4 Dale Earnhardt Jr. 301 123.690 6.305 0
5 Brad Keselowski 301 124.495 7.003 3
Lap: 301 of 301
Time Elapsed: 02:46:27
Cautions/Laps: 3 / 15
Leaders: 8
Lead Lap: 19
Average Speed: 116.23
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Leaderboard
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12:58p.m.ET
Ron Howard will be behind the wheel of a pace car during the pace laps. Opie!
12:56p.m.ET
Sunny Sweeney is singing “America the Beautiful.”
12:50p.m.ET
Hey! Reggie Jackson is in the house today.
12:30p.m.ET
Driver introductions have started at Indy.
12:20p.m.ET
There’s a parade of vintage NASCAR race cars taking place at Indy right now. That’s cool!
12:11p.m.ET
Mike Helton addressed the issue of jumping restarts during the drivers meeting Sunday morning, a subject that bit Elliott Sadler hard during Saturday’s Nationwide Series event.
The gist of his message? Don’t do it!
6:50a.m.ET
It was a Joe Gibbs Racing kind of day in qualifying, as its drivers took three of the first seven spots on the starting grid. Denny Hamlin will start from the pole, followed by Joey Logano in third and Kyle Busch in seventh.
Overall, the top five consisted of Hamlin, Carl Edwards, Logano, Aric Almirola and Greg Biffle, while Jimmie Johnson, Busch, Paul Menard, Jeff Gordon and Mat Kenseth rounded out the top 10.
Reed Sorenson, Joe Nemechek and Michael McDowell failed to qualify for the event.
Invocation
Anthem
Osprey fly-over