And Takuma Sato is into the lead!

All happening in the closing stages. The Former F1 driver is in the driving seat to take his first ever Indy 500 win.

Double blow for Max Chilton as Helio Castroneves takes the lead from him around the outside of Turn Three before Takuma Sato moves into second down the pit straight.

Takuma Sato is too occupied with trying to take Max Chilton that he misses Helio Castroneves creeping up on him and Castroneves is into second.

Brilliant, brilliant driving by Max Chilton as Takuma Sato tries again. The two are side by side but Chilton shuts the door. He's giving it everything.

Takuma Sato attacks Max Chilton but has left it too late on the straight and Chilton defends into the turn...

Green flag. Eleven laps to go...

The biggest 13 laps of Max Chilton's racing career? His best finish at the Indy 500 is seventh. He is in prime position to win it today.

Takuma Sato will push him all the way, though.

Jel: This Indy 500 malarkey is what you get if you cross F1 with a Demolition Derby.

It's not all doom and gloom for Honda. Max Chilton is leading the race with a Honda engine in his car.

Mark Duffell: Have to feel for whoever is doing PR for Honda at the moment. Tough job. Awful luck for Alonso but drove like the champion he is.

Andrew Benson
Chief F1 writer in Monaco

Fernando Alonso’s Indianapolis 500 adventure ended as have so many of his recent Formula 1 outings - with a Honda engine failure. But his trip to America was a resounding triumph for both the Spaniard and his McLaren F1 team.

Alonso was contending for victory throughout the Indy 500, had the highest average lap speed in the race, and had just pulled a beautiful outside pass around Turn One on Brazilian veteran Tony Kanaan to take sixth place as the race entered its closing laps.

He was a ‘rookie’, as the Americans call it, but he drove like he had been racing on ovals all his life.

In one way, it was to be expected - he is, after all, one of the greatest racing drivers in history. But the difficulty of adapting to the unique challenges of oval racing at the daunting 230mph Indianapolis Motor Speedway should not be underestimated.

The regulars were deeply impressed, and Alonso’s US foray excited millions of fans around the world and unquestionably enriched his legend.

Indy is a hard race to win, but Alonso proved he was more than capable of doing it.

Now, it’s back to the day job in Canada in two weeks’ time. He will go there with his reputation enhanced and, one imagines, a deepened determination to return and get the job done another time.

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As the debris is cleared down into Turn Two, here's a look at the top 10 with 14 laps to go.

1) Chilton

2) Sato

3) Jones

4) Castroneves

5) Hildebrand

6) Kanaan

7) Montoya

8) Pagenaud

9) Rossi

10) Andretti

Pottiella: If this was an exercise by McLaren to restore Fernando's faith in Honda, this was the final nail in coffin. What a waste.

James Hinchcliffe, James Davison, Oriol Servia and Will Power were involved in that crash.

It looks like Servia lost control and turned into a car and two pinballed into another two.

Big crash! Five cars collide and there's debris scattered all over the track.

Green flag and here we go. Can Max Chilton win it? He's the leader with 17 laps to go.