The third time was the allure for Alessandro de Tullio.
After beginning on pole for the third consecutive race, de Tullio delivered a flag-to-flag efficiency out entrance to seize his first Indy NXT win within the nightcap of the doubleheader weekend at Barber Motorsports Park.
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The Argentine was underneath strain from rival Max Taylor, who he collided with whereas battling for the win on Saturday, all through the complete 30 laps, however held serve to gather the checkered flag by 0.3635s on the two.3-mile, 17-turn pure terrain street course.
“Yeah, it’s unimaginable,” de Tullio mentioned. “To be right here, I wish to thank, firstly, the entire #14 crew for such a fantastic automotive. We knew we may have finished two races in the past in Arlington. We may have finished it yesterday, however typically that’s the way in which that racing goes. An important factor is that we saved our heads down and saved focus, and the third time is a allure, I assume.”
Nikita Johnson completed third, forward of the HMD Motorsports duo of Enzo Fittipaldi and Tymek Kucharczyk in fourth and fifth, respecitively.
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The efficiency by de Tullio not solely provides the collection its fourth winner in as many races, but in addition handed AJ Foyt Racing its first win in Indy NXT since 2002 (A.J. Foyt IV, Texas Motor Speedway).
Johnson retains the championship lead (168 factors), with a 24-point hole over Taylor, with Kucharczyk 33 factors behind in third. Fittipaldi is 39 factors behind, whereas de Tullio transferring up from thirteenth to fifth at 61 factors again.
The Race
It was an excellent leap by de Tullio on the wave of the inexperienced flag, however there was chaos behind moments later as Abel Motorsports teammates Max Garcia and Myles Rowe got here collectively.
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Rowe, who began seventh, dove to the within of Garcia, who began fifth, coming into Flip 13. Nonetheless, Rowe clipped the curbing, which despatched him into Garcia and led each drivers off track and down the operating order with injury. The 2 continued on, which saved the 30-lap race underneath inexperienced, however Rowe was hit with a 30s stop-and-hold penalty for avoidable contact.
Each de Tullio and Taylor (Andretti International) started to interrupt away from the sector, with the 2 staying inside 0.3s of one another however 2s up on third-place man Johnson (Cape Motorsports Powered by ECR) by Lap 9.
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The operating order by the midway level remained with de Tullio and Taylor in first and second, with the duo adopted by Johnson, Fittipaldi, and Kucharczyk.
Johnson, the winner of the primary race of the doubleheader weekend, started to crawl into the image just a few laps later, closing to inside 1.4s of the leaders.
With seven laps to go, Taylor started to use the strain on de Tullio, with Johnson inside 1s. Fittipaldi additionally moved to inside 1.8s, and constructed a niche of 1.2s over Kucharczyk in fifth.
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The battle on the entrance started to tighten up much more with 4 laps to go as Fittipaldi had his HMD Motorsports machine on the rear wing of Johnson, who was inside putting distance of Taylor.
Jordan Missig (Abel Motorsports) closed on Kucharczyk for fifth, making a transfer for the spot on the frontstretch with two laps to go, however unable to safe the spot into Flip 1.
Taylor closed on the ultimate lap on de Tullio, however ultimately was left settling for second. As de Tullio crossed the end line, he yelled out “Vamos” over the radio.
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