Colton Herta led for much of the race but a pitstop call costs him in the closing laps as Alex Palou rolls to victory.
ELKHART LAKE, Wis. – With 20 laps to go, Colton Herta, who started from pole and led 33 of 55 laps Sunday at Road America, looked set to earn a feel-good win for Andretti Autosport.
to pounce. The Chip Ganassi Racing driver surged to the late lead, pacing just 10 laps, and grabbed his third win in four starts, lengthening his championship lead to 74 points over Ganassi teammate Marcus Ericsson.Race action:Having made numerous top-off pitstops for fuel after starting 22place, under a second behind.
From there, Palou ran away from the field, eventually winning by 4.5610 seconds over Josef Newgarden, with Pato O’Ward filing behind in 3rd to complete the podium. In order, Scott Dixon, Herta, Marcus Ericsson, Christian Lundgaard, Scott McLaughlin, Kyle Kirkwood and Alexander Rossi rounded out the top 10.Herta’s strategist Scott Harner called his driver into the pits from the lead on Lap 40, a decision that proved pivotal.
A lead that sat around 2 seconds with 13 laps to go evaporated to under a second by Lap 45, four laps before Herta lost the lead for good.Four early cautions – Lap 1 for Kyle Kirkwood’s spin in Turn 1; Lap 3 for Romain Grosjean dropping a wheel and spinning in Turn 3; Lap 15 for Jack Harvey running off into the Turn 14 tire barrier, and Lap 25 for David Malukas slowing to a stop in Turn 8 – made for an exciting, chaotic and disjointed first half of Sunday’s race.
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