Ed Carpenter Racing’s Christian Rasmussen in the No.21 Splenda Chevrolet scored his first NTT INDYCAR SERIES podium in Sunday’s Bommarito Automotive Group 500 at World Wide Technology Raceway.
The Dane started the race from 25th and came through the field twice during the event to claim a third place finish.
“This is a huge result after how the weekend had gone for us. We struggled quite a bit in Practice 1 and we didn’t get it done in qualifying. What a way for ECR to turn it around tonight! As soon as I found out that the high line was so effective, I went for it. My Splenda Chevy was so good up there in both ends of the racetrack. We got a bit unlucky on one of the cycles and we had to do emergency service, so we had to start at the tail of the field. I drove through the field once, got sent to the back, and drove through again! This is awesome. Definitely the best race of my life so far!”
Alexander Rossi in the No.20 Java House Chevrolet started the race from 12th and came home 11th. Speaking following the action he said:
“It wasn’t quite the night we expected with the No. 20 Java House Chevrolet. We just didn’t quite have the pace that we had last night, especially not the pace that our teammate had tonight. We are little confused there, but overall a good weekend for the ECR team with Christian (Rasmussen) getting his first podium. We’ll learn from this one and move on to Road America.”