American Racing News Vol 1, Issue 2 Issue 7 | Page 12

podium showing in seven races at
The Glen.

Refinish Chevrolet) spinning, but
the track remained green.

“Once we got off strategy, we
passed a lot of cars,” said Newgarden, who moved up to fifth in
points but was also mathematically
eliminated from championship
contention, 109 points behind Pagenaud. “Able to make the fuel
thanks to Chevy and then I think we
just had a great Fuzzy's Vodka car
today, and that's ultimately what
made the difference for us to secure second.”

Aleshin’s day got worse on Lap 15
when his left-rear lost air in Turn 4,
sending the Russian spinning into
the wall and bringing out the first
caution. Aleshin was uninjured.

Castroneves passed Conor Daly
(No. 18 Jonathan Byrd’s Hospitality
Dale Coyne Honda), who also ran
out of fuel but coasted home in
fourth. Sebastien Bourdais (No. 11
Hydroxycut KVSH Racing Chevrolet) rounded out a top five made up
of five different teams at the end of
the day.
Dixon led the field to the green flag
as cars fanned three and four wide
in a mad fight for position behind,
but as the field funneled into Turn
1, several made contact, sending
Bourdais, Mikhail Aleshin (No. 7
SMP Racing Schmidt Peterson Motorsports Honda) and Juan Pablo
Montoya (No. 2 PPG Automotive

The second caution of the race
came out on Lap 20 when Kimball
(No. 83 Tresiba Chevrolet) made
contact with Graham Rahal (No. 15
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
Honda), sending Rahal into the wall
at the exit of Turn 1, ending his day.

On separate strategy, Carlos Munoz led the field to the Lap 42 restart ahead of teammate Marco
Andretti and AJ Foyt Racing’s Takuma Sato. After clearing Castroneves, it took Dixon less than two
laps to find his way back to the lead
and he was able to stretch his final
18.5 gallons of Sunoco E85R ethanol to the checkers

“He decided to not give me any
room,” Rahal said of Kimball.
“That’s a hard hit. That’s probably
the hardest hit I’ve taken in my life.
It’s just a shame. The United Rentals cars was phenomenal.”
The championship took another
wild turn on Lap 39 when Power
made contact with Kimball at the
exit of Turn 4 and was turned into
the barrier. Most of the leaders
pitted on Lap 41, when Castroneves beat the rest off of pit road,
but with 19 laps to go, all had to
save fuel in order to make it to the
checkered flag.
Photo | Chris Owens

Photo | Chris Owens

Photo | Chris Owens