Yesterday’s IndyCar race in Detroit was rich with incidents of various kinds; suffice it to say that the competitors spent 47 of the 100 laps under yellow flags on the track. 43-year-old series veteran, New Zealand driver Chip Ganassi Racing Scott Dixon, performed better than anyone in these conditions and his second win of the season saw him lead the personal standings, ahead of Alex Palou, who took the victory achieved. only 16th place.
But Dixon lost less than a second at the finish to our old friend Marcus Erickson, who has been racing for Andretti Global since this year, and so far this is his best result of the season. Things did not go well for the Swede in the previous stages and despite the podium in Detroit he is still 14th in the individual competition.
“We had great pace, one more lap and maybe I could have won. Great day, I’m very satisfied,” said Marcus after the finish. – This is a very important result, because after so many failures it was psychologically difficult for me, especially because I am a new person in this team and I want to prove that I am a great racer, because that is why I was invited Andretti.
But we just had to change our minds, believe that we were doing everything right, not give up and keep working hard. I am happy that our efforts have paid off.”
We talked about the good qualifying result of Theo Pourcher, an IndyCar debutant driving for Arrow McLaren, who started from 7th position, but already on the first lap became one of the participants in the incident, of which Will Power was to blame, although In the end, this wasn’t what stopped him.
Theo rode a good race and remained mostly in the top ten, but fighting for 8th position he collided with Argentinian Agustin Canapino on lap 61, for which he was penalized with the loss of three places and ultimately finished 10th.
And the best of the Arrow McLaren drivers was Alex Rossi, who took 5th place.
In fact, there were so many incidents during the race in Detroit that the American motorsport press is already writing with all its might that it is either necessary to somehow change the configuration of this strange and dangerous city circuit, or even to change this stage to another place.
Source: F1 News
I am Christopher Clyde, an experienced journalist and content writer with a passion for sports. I have been writing about Formula 1 news for the past five years and am currently employed as an author at athletistic.com, one of the top sports websites in the US.
