{"id":6848,"date":"2019-05-26T16:44:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T20:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/?p=6848"},"modified":"2019-05-26T16:44:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T20:44:22","slug":"pagenaud-out-duels-rossi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2019\/05\/26\/pagenaud-out-duels-rossi\/","title":{"rendered":"Pagenaud out-duels Rossi to win Indianapolis 500"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alexander Rossi\u00a0<\/strong>was chasing\u00a0Simon Pagenaud\u00a0<\/strong>around the four corners of Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday after the final cycle of pit stops ended in the 103rd running of the Indianapolis 500.<\/p>\n

Pagenaud was holding the lead, but would need a caution in order to save enough fuel to race at such a fast pace and go to the end of the race.<\/p>\n

With just over 20 laps to go, he got just that.<\/p>\n

Pagenaud out-duels Rossi to win Indianapolis 500<\/h2>\n

Graham Rahal<\/strong>\u00a0was squeezed by\u00a0Sebastien Bourdais\u00a0<\/strong>going into Turn 3 and bringing out an eventual red flag.<\/p>\n

The delay racked up a double-digit amount of minutes before IndyCar<\/a> got the race cars pacing around the track again.<\/p>\n

When they finally went back around to take the green, 13 laps remained.<\/p>\n

Pagenaud and Rossi battled through each of them. They traded the lead back and forth before Pagenaud got out to a bigger lead.<\/p>\n

With three laps to go, Rossi went around Pagenaud and looked to have the race won. He started to pull away before the streaking yellow Menards car closed the gap back down.<\/p>\n

Pagenaud got around Rossi as they took the white flag, and Rossi didn’t have the time to recover.<\/p>\n

The win marks Pagenaud’s first ever in the 500 mile event and it couldn’t have come at a better time for the 2016 series champion.<\/p>\n

Coming into the event, Pagenaud sat in fourth place in the standings, 44 points back of\u00a0Josef Newgarden\u00a0<\/strong>in first place.<\/p>\n

Thanks to the 500 being a double-points event, Pagenaud jumped all the way up to first, taking command of the series.<\/p>\n

Pair Sunday with the fact that Pagenaud captured a win in the IndyCar GP two weeks ago, and it’s evident that he has a strong hold on the rest of the series, right now.<\/p>\n

The series will return to the track next week for a pair of back-to-back races in Detroit on Saturday and Sunday from The Raceway at Belle Isle Park. Both races are scheduled to start at 3:00 p.m. ET on NBC.<\/p>\n

103rd Indianapolis 500 Results<\/strong><\/a>
\n1. Simon Pagenaud
\n2. Alexander Rossi
\n3. Takuma Sato
\n4. Josef Newgarden
\n5. Will Power
\n6. Ed Carpenter
\n7. Santino Ferrucci
\n8. Ryan Hunter-Reay
\n9. Tony Kanaan
\n10. Conor Daly
\n11. James Hinchcliffe
\n12. James Davison
\n13. Ed Jones
\n14. Spencer Pigot
\n15. Mattheus Leist
\n16. Pippa Mann
\n17. Scott Dixon
\n18. Helio Castroneves
\n19. Sage Karam
\n20. JR Hildebrand
\n21. Jack Harvey
\n22. Oriol Servia
\n23. Marcus Ericsson
\n24. Jordan King
\n25. Charlie Kimball
\n26. Marco Andretti
\n27. Graham Rahal
\n28. Felix Rosenqvist
\n29. Zach Veach
\n30. Sebastien Bourdais
\n31. Kyle Kaiser
\n32. Ben Hanley
\n33. Colton Herta<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
NTT Data IndyCar Series Points Standings<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Position<\/strong><\/td>\nDriver<\/strong><\/td>\nPoints<\/strong><\/td>\nBehind<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nSimon Pagenaud<\/td>\n250<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nJosef Newgarden<\/td>\n249<\/td>\n-1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nAlexander Rossi<\/td>\n228<\/td>\n-22<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nScott Dixon<\/td>\n203<\/td>\n-47<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nTakuma Sato<\/td>\n203<\/td>\n-47<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nWill Power<\/td>\n184<\/td>\n-66<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nRyan Hunter-Reay<\/td>\n157<\/td>\n-93<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nJames Hinchcliffe<\/td>\n145<\/td>\n-105<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nSpencer Pigot<\/td>\n133<\/td>\n-117<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nSantino Ferrucci<\/td>\n129<\/td>\n-121<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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