A sellout crowd of 330,000 race fans watched as Noblesville native Conor Daly in the No.76 ampm Juncos Hollinger Racing Chevrolet led the 109th running of the Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge on Sunday.
The crowd went wild as Daly led 13 laps of the race but ran into difficulty and came home with a top ten finish.
The car was just evil the last two sets of tires. I have no idea what happened. We didn’t really make many changes. It completely fell off a cliff and I was hanging on for dear life; literally crashing every turn. The team did great. The car was so fast at the beginning and it’s exactly what I needed and then something happened. We have to look into it. This car was so good and then all of a sudden it fell off a whole lot. Still proud of our efforts and the team did a great job on pit stops.”
Sting Ray Robb in the No.77 Goodheart Chevrolet suffered an early end to his day and speaking following the action he said:
Looking at it in my head, I don’t see a way to get out of it. When Kyle started losing it, I was checking up and once he spun I was trying to get around the outside, but there was just no grip. Cold track, cold tires, it was tough conditions. These cars are much more difficult to drive this year. I wish we could do something different. That’s not the way I wanted it to end. They did sweep the high line, but not far up. It’s frustrating.”