The inaugural Grand Prix of Arlington delivered a surprisingly clear, however thrilling battle for 70 laps, ending with a showdown between Alex Palou and Kyle Kirkwood.
Kirkwood handed Palou through an aggressive dive with 15 laps to go, and by no means appeared again. Palou completed second, and Will Energy earned his first podium end with Andretti in third. Marcus Ericsson and Pato O’Ward stuffed out the remainder of the highest 5.
For Kirkwood, that is his sixth profession win and his fourth on a avenue course. Caio Collet led the way in which among the many rookie class, incomes a career-best end of twelfth, bettering on his earlier excessive results of seventeenth.
The race did not characteristic a single full-course yellow till the ultimate 4 laps of the race, and whereas it did get restarted for a one-lap shootout, the race finally ended underneath warning as a result of a crash within the again.
NOTE: Felix Rosenqvist initially completed sixth, however was deemed to have jumped the ultimate restart. In consequence, he was dropped all the way in which all the way down to twentieth, shifting many of the discipline up a place.
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