The rain appears to have stopped at Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the 91st Indianapolis 500... at least for the moment. On track are a brace of vehicles drying it out, something Indy Racing League officials had previously said will take two hours.

In the meantime, most drivers and cars are headed to the garages, drivers to their own and cars to IRL impound. Still no update from IRL on the race status, but it appears IRL is taking every step possible to get a restart.

At the lap 113 mark, there have been eight leaders and 18 lead changes. Understandably, the majority of frontrunners have been unhappy with the prospects of the race being called at this point.

Pole sitter HELIO CASTRONEVES hasn't had the best luck so far. First he stalled on the pace lap, then he was passed on the first lap for the lead, and then he had a valve refuelling problem in a pit-stop and fell back to 29th place. Castroneves worked his way back up to sixth by the red flag.

The teams have been taking their used tyres back to Firestone and having fresh tyres mounted. All the IRL race tyres are slicks. Firestone doesn't make a rain tyre for IRL because IRL doesn't run in the rain. The rooster tails and spray would seriously decrease visibility.

The only penalty levied in the race so far was a speeding ticket for MILKA DUNO, but it's academic now as she's retired with a damaged car from her crash.

And to expand on something said earlier about drivers being cleared to drive: it was pointed out to me by an astute reader that in days gone by, drivers were allowed to have relief drivers. So any driver cleared to drive without a car could theoretically be available to fill in for another driver in case someone gets a case of heat stroke, fatigue, or whatever. One such whatever could be relieving a driver who has to be somewhere else. There are no drivers 'doing the double' this weekend but, theoretically, if a NASCAR driver had started the Indy 500 and had to leave at the red flag to fly back to Charlotte for the 5:30 pm ET start of the Coca-Cola 600 NASCAR Nextel Cup race, one of the cleared drivers - such as JOHN ANDRETTI, who was the first driver to 'do the double' - could complete the race for the NASCAR driver. The starting driver would be credited with the points, finish, etc.