Andretti Autosport’s James Roe Jr in the No.29 Topcon Dallara scored his career-best result in the INDY NXT presented by Firestone championship at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Friday.
Starting the race from second place, the Kildare native went conservative on his push to pass and didn’t use it for 20 laps of the 35-lap race around the IMS road course.
Roe closed the gap to Hunter Mclrea in the closing stages of the race after Mclrea collided with his teammate Louis Foster who tumbled down the order.
Roe was left disappointed after burning up his tires and came home just behind Mclrea.
Reece Gold came home in third place just ahead of Jacob Abel and the Chip Ganassi backed Kyffin Simpson.
Championship leader Christian Rasmussen came home in sixth place having started the race from 9th.
Pos SP Car Driver C/E/T Lap
Laps
Down
Time
Down Elapsed Time
Avg
Speed
Running /
Reason Out Pts
Total
Pts Standings
1 1 27 McElrea, Hunter D/ /F 35 0 –.—- 00:45:18.6916 113.037 Running 54 329 2
2 2 29 Roe, James D/ /F 35 0 0.4370 00:45:19.1286 113.019 Running 40 259 7
3 5 10 Gold, Reece (R) D/ /F 35 0 1.6447 00:45:20.3363 112.969 Running 35 260 6
4 8 51 Abel, Jacob D/ /F 35 0 18.3723 00:45:37.0639 112.279 Running 32 305 4
5 3 21 Simpson, Kyffin D/ /F 35 0 22.5553 00:45:41.2469 112.107 Running 30 221 9
6 9 6 Rasmussen, Christian D/ /F 35 0 23.2684 00:45:41.9600 112.078 Running 28 362 1
7 12 68 Frost, Danial D/ /F 35 0 23.6658 00:45:42.3574 112.062 Running 26 233 8
8 6 14 Pierson, Josh (R) D/ /F 35 0 27.9859 00:45:46.6775 111.886 Running 24 140 18
9 13 47 Porto, Kiko D/ /F 35 0 30.3422 00:45:49.0338 111.790 Running 22 22 24
10 10 28 Chadwick, Jamie (R) D/ /F 35 0 32.8976 00:45:51.5892 111.686 Running 20 183 12
11 19 57 Kaminsky, Colin (R) D/ /F 35 0 33.7251 00:45:52.4167 111.652 Running 19 142 17
12 7 39 Siegel, Nolan (R) D/ /F 35 0 34.4103 00:45:53.1019 111.625 Running 18 307 3
13 15 7 Bogle, Christian D/ /F 35 0 35.9527 00:45:54.6443 111.562 Running 17 182 13
14 14 99 Francis Jr., Ernie D/ /F 35 0 39.8513 00:45:58.5429 111.404 Running 16 200 10
15 16 76 Lindh, Rasmus D/ /F 34 1 – 00:45:32.8219 109.240 Running 15 194 11
16 17 55 Pizzi, Francesco (R) D/ /F 33 2 – 00:45:48.3769 105.427 Running 14 25 23
17 4 26 Foster, Louis (R) D/ /F 28 7 – 00:36:21.0963 112.719 Contact 13 269 5
18 18 98 Jones, Jagger (R) D/ /F 15 20 – 00:20:20.4544 107.916 Mechanical 12 179 14
19 11 75 Franzoni, Victor D/ /F 9 26 – 00:11:53.5798 110.742 Mechanical 11 27 22