Indy 500 Resumes After 3-Hour Rain Delay

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INDIANAPOLIS -- If Tony Kanaan is to win the Indianapolis 500, he'll have to drive more than the 113 laps he had completed when rain delayed the race Sunday afternoon.

With Kanaan in the lead, the race restarted at 6:01 p.m., about three hours after it was red-flagged because of precipitation.

Had the race not resumed, Kanaan would have won. He was leading lap 113 when rain fell at 3:02 p.m.; the leader needs to finish only 101 of the race's 200 laps for the event to be official.

Kanaan had passed teammate Marco Andretti for the lead on lap 107. Shortly after the pass, rookie Phil Giebler crashed, causing another caution and freezing the track position up to the lap-113 delay.

Danica Patrick, Vitor Meira, and Dario Franchitti were third, fourth and fifth, respectively. With the exception of Meira, the top five belonged to Andretti Green Racing.

Rain did drop on the speedway in the morning, but the track was dry when the race started at 1:12 p.m.

Kanaan, Castroneves Swapped Lead Early

By the time of the rain delay, the race had seen eight leaders. Five drivers -- Roberto Moreno, Jon Herb, Milka Duno, John Andretti and Giebler -- were out of the race, all because of wrecks.

In the race's first 30 laps, polesitter Helio Castroneves and fellow Brazil native Kanaan, who started second, were involved in six lead changes.

On lap 37, Moreno became the first driver to leave the race. Moreno, who started 31st in the 33-car field, entered a turn too high and struck a wall. He already was a lap down at the time.

During a caution period for Moreno's wreck, race leader Castroneves had serious pit-stop problems. His crew had trouble fueling the car, and by the time he got back onto the track, Castroneves was in 29th place.

Herb hit a wall on lap 51, and Duno -- one of three women to start Sunday's race -- exited with a solo crash on lap 65.

Sam Hornish Jr., last year's Indy 500 winner, led for two laps shortly after Duno's wreck, but his chances for a repeat were damaged when he and Tomas Scheckter -- running second and third at the time, respectively -- bumped into each other on a straightaway on lap 86.

Both Hornish and Scheckter had to pit because of the incident. They returned to the track, but by the time of the rain delay, they were 15th and 19th, respectively.

John Andretti -- who already was about four laps down -- hit a wall going into a turn on about lap 99. After a series of pit stops during the subsequent caution period, Marco Andretti had the lead, followed by Kanaan and Patrick.

Then Giebler wrecked, setting up the restart in which Kanaan passed Marco Andretti a few laps before the rain delay.

Castroneves had moved up to sixth. Rounding out the top 10 were Jeff Simmons, Scott Dixon, Ed Carpenter and Ryan Briscoe.