A podium in the rookie season in 2021, immediately scored in 2022: the first act of the 2022 Indycar championship held in St. Pete in Florida saw the Penske rider in great shape Scott McLaughlinruler of the Australian covered-wheel series V8 Supercars landed in the top US racing formula last season with the Penske team after winning three titles at home.
The 1993-born driver who started from pole position defended the first position at the first corner from the attack of a wild Colton Herta, very good at mocking Will Power at the start. At a strategic level, the race was upset on the 25th lap of the 100 scheduled on the occasion of a long neutralization made necessary to repair a barrier following the incident of rookie David Malukas under the team Dale Coyne great protagonist in 2021 of the Indy Lights ended at second place behind the champion Kyle Kirkwood, in turn enrolled in the Indycar 2022 with the AJ Foyt team. There caution it lasted nine laps and not all the drivers decided to pit for another stop after the first pit-stop waltz that took place around the 20th lap.
100 laps. 1 winner.
The green flag is out at the @GPSTPETE.
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McLaughlin, the virtual leader despite having slipped in the rankings, has had to defend himself from that moment on Alex Palou, started tenth after having changed the set-up compared to Friday with the aim of finishing inside the top-5. The reigning champion of the Ganassi team managed by Monaco Increase Management went beyond expectations by underestimating his talent and finishing behind McLaughlin in second position. Palou put pressure on the Penske standard bearer up to the checkered flag also taking advantage of a little help from Jimmie Johnson, a teammate of the Iberian who made – legally – difficult dubbing at McLaughlin just over 10 laps from the flag. chess allowing Palou to close the gap on the leader of the race.
This is no easy place to make your first NTT #INDYCAR SERIES start.@malukasdavid brings out the yellow flag on Lap 25 for an incident in Turn 3.
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He completed the Will Power podium ahead of Colton Herta, finishing fifth for Romain Grosjean. The rider who strategically paid the price for an unusual race in terms of the absence of neutralizations after the one due to the ko of Malukas was Scott Dixon, eighth at the finish line behind Rinus Veekay (almost left dry and easy prey in the final for Grosjean) and Graham Rahal. To close the top-10 were two old acquaintances of F1 like the transalpine, namely Marcus Ericsson and Takuma Sato.
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