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Day Two – Indy 500 Qualifying – Let The Bumping Begin

May 13, Indianapolis – With 90 minutes to go, second round qualifying continues for the 91st running of the Indianapolis 500. A.J. Foyt IV started the bumping process when he bumped Marty Roth from the field. Under the new qualifying rules, Positions 1-11 in the field were available to the fastest qualifiers yesterday. Once the 11 spots were filled, bumping occurred for the remainder of the day to determine the pole winner and fastest 11 qualifiers. Today, Positions 12-22 are available. Once those spots are full, bumping will occur only for those spots only the remainder of the day. Roth became the 12th fastest-first bumped when Foyt qualified faster. It remains to be seen if Roth will attempt to regain his spot in the top-22.

About an hour after Foyt, Sarah Fisher driving the Dreyer-Reinbold AAMCO Transmission Dallara-Honda bumped her way into the top-22 when her 221.960mph average bumped Jon Herb from the field.

Immediately after Fisher?s run, 2004 Indy 500 winner and teammate to Fisher, Buddy Rice went out to qualify. Buddy one of two Buddy?s to ever race in the ?500? bumped out the other one-1996 Indy 500 winner Buddy Lazier. Rice?s run of 222.826 put Al Unser, Jr. another ?500? winner on the bubble.

Scott Sharp driving the Patr

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