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Bell leads qualifying; Roth on bubble for what may be anticlimactic Bump Day

By John Oreovicz
Special to ESPN.com

Saturday, May 17, 2008

INDIANAPOLIS -- Led by Townsend Bell and Graham Rahal, the remainder of the 33-car field for the 92nd running of the Indianapolis 500 (May 25, noon ET, ABC) was filled Saturday. Just 0.08 mph (or 0.006 of a second) separated the two Americans after their four-lap, 10-mile qualification runs, with Bell taking 12th place on the grid for his efforts. Rahal ran the fastest individual qualifying lap of the day (223.440 mph) on his first tour of the 2.5-mile oval. But understeer in Turn 2 droppe ...

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