Andretti / Unser safely in Also 3rd woman in this year

[Chris]

John Andretti looks to be safely in this years Indy 500
Al unser Jr looks to also be safely in.
Milka Duno was the first qualifier today and is the 3rd woman qualified to race in this years 500.
Currently she is 26th in the field, with a car in the field slower than her.
There are 6 spots left to fill at this time (3:30)

[Chris]

Some interesting stuff from INDY today...
Saw this posted on the indy 500 site...

A.J. Foyt Racing Team Director Larry Foyt underwent a driver's physical this week at Clarian Emergency Medical Center at IMS. Foyt drove in the last three Indianapolis 500's before stepping out of the cockpit this year to manage his father's team
But does the physical indicate that Foyt is considering a return to the cockpit this weekend in a third A.J. Foyt entry, as a teammate to Darren Manning and Al Unser Jr.?
LARRY FOYT (Team director, A.J. Foyt Racing): "Well, you never know what's going to happen here. We've got the cars to where if my dad wanted to throw one in, I think that we could do it. I just wanted to be ready in case that happens, but I don't know. I probably won't because I don't want to do anything to take away from our 14 and 50 operations, but at the same time, if it looks like we can easily get in the field, it might be fun to do." (About factors into any decision to run a third car with Larry Foyt): "Well, we're probably just going to see what happens today and how fast people are going. I feel really confident that I could jump in and get up to 220 pretty quickly, but at the same time, our car is not quite ready so it would take a lot of work. It probably won't happen, but I just want to be ready just in case."

Then also saw this posted...

Racing Professionals and Hemelgarn Racing have combined efforts to field a car for Richie Hearn. The six-time Indianapolis 500 starter will drive the #91 Hemelgarn/Racing Professionals Dallara/Honda/Firestone.
RICHIE HEARN (No. 91 Hemelgarn/Racing Professionals Dallara/Honda/ Firestone): "We're going to get out. Probably not until after the first round of qualifying. We've got to go through tech and stuff, but we'll be out there today. It depends on how good it goes and how everyone else qualifies it may be better just to get it in (today) and get it done with, then we can do a little bit of full-tank stuff tomorrow so we don't have to worry about it. It's been two years, but it's not any different than normal. I just have to focus on just safely getting up to speed quickly because we don't have a lot of time. I've been in this situation before, so I kind of know what to expect. The biggest factor is the weather and it's a good day today, so you don't have to worry about it

So we could have TWO 11th hour entries to try and make the field on Sunday.  Should make things interesting.
We have 32 cars posted to the field. 
Female driver MILKA DUNO got bumped down to 29th by the end of the day,.. but her speed should be plenty fast enough to keep her in the field (IMO).  She's still faster than 3 guys in the field behind her... and one spot left to fill.
Finally... check out the four laps for REAL consistent laps for a qualification run...
Very smooth run... and to run 2-1/2 maile each lap and only be 1/10th total time in all four laps... very nice.
 ROGER YASUKAWA/Los Angeles 
  Wellman Corbier/DRR - D/H/F 
  1 – 40.4152 – 222.688
  2 – 40.4120 – 222.706   
  3 – 40.4280 – 222.618   
  4 – 40.4303 – 222.605   
  T 2:41.6855 – 222.654