INDIANAPOLIS – Nothing was going to stop Simon Pagenaud from winning Saturday’s IndyCar Grand Prix on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Grand Prix circuit.
The driver of the No. 22 Menards Team Penske Chevrolet chased down Scott Dixon from more than five seconds back in the final laps and passed him on the penultimate lap to earn his first victory of the season.
Pagenaud started eighth in the 85-lap affair that featured varying levels of rain throughout the event. He charged from sixth in the final 18 laps on a slick track to hunt down Dixon, eventually beating him to the checkers by more than two seconds.
He first had to dispatch Matheius Leist and Jack Harvey, moving into second with five laps left. From there he quickly closed the gap on Dixon, who was doing his best to maintain a gap between himself and Pagenaud.
When the five-time series champion slid a little wide at the exit of turn seven on lap 84, Pagenaud pounced. He dove to the inside of Dixon’s No. 9 Honda and the two made slight contact. Pagenaud emerged from turn nine with the race lead and never looked back.
The victory, his third in the IndyCar Grand Prix, was his first in NTT IndyCar Series competition since the 2017 season finale.
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