Penske’s most competitive car, Scott McLaughlin’s No. Josef Newgarden led the charge in 13th with Power sliding from 11th to 16th. Team Penske just couldn’t get him back to victory lane.Īfter putting only one driver, Australian Will Power, in last weekend’s pole shootout, none of the team’s three drivers finished in the top 10. Indianapolis Motor Speedway owner Roger Penske celebrated his first 500 at full capacity with a crowd topping 300,000. “Nobody knows that better than me,” Michael Andretti said. Mario Andretti’s 1969 victory remains the only Indy 500 win spanning three generations of Andretti racing. Otherwise, it was just another day filled with more bad luck for Andretti. “When you get close, you start hoping and dreaming of bigger things but that wasn’t meant to be today,” Rossi said. And rookie Devlin DeFrancesco wound up 19th.īut Rossi, the 2016 Indy winner, nearly executed the plan perfectly. Marco Andretti suddenly found himself out front for three laps late when other drivers pitted - the first ones he’s led at Indy since 2014 - but settled for 22nd after also needing a pit stop. Grosjean was one of three drivers who spun going through the track’s tricky second turn, hitting the outside wall about halfway through the race. “Now all you can think about is what if (the Carb Day crash) didn’t happen.” “We were so loose, the loosest I’ve been on an oval like this, so it was frustrating,” said Herta, who settled for 30th. Penske: Ind圜ar certain to investigate wheel that flew over stands after Indy 500 wreck Only 500 rookie Romain Grosjean made the 12-car pole shootout. Herta blew an engine in qualifying and wrecked his car on Carb Day, and Marco Andretti also had a poor qualifying run.
But nothing went right since, least of all in a double-points race.Īll five Andretti cars struggled to find speed. Colton Herta, the emerging star from California, won a rain-soaked Ind圜ar Grand Prix two weeks ago. It came after May started with such promise for the organization.
“It was just not a great month and the worst part is that the championship has pretty much fallen out of reach.” He saved us from a disaster,” Andretti told The Associated Press.
Not good enough for the team owner, who conceded the Ind圜ar title with 11 races remaining this season. Four finished 19th or worse, but Rossi drove from 20th to an Andretti-best fifth. Otherwise, it was another miserable - and perhaps costly - Indianapolis 500 for Michael Andretti, who had five cars start Sunday. INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Alexander Rossi salvaged one solid result for Andretti Autosport.
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