Team Penske-Chevrolet’s Scott McLaughlin made a clean start from his first ever pole position, but teammate Power, the only driver in the Top 10 to start the race on the harder Firestone primaries, appeared to spin up the tires out of the final turn and so had lost places to both Andretti Autosport-Honda’s Colton Herta and Rinus VeeKay of Ed Carpenter Racing-Chevrolet by the time they reached Turn 1.
Romain Grosjean had to be deterred from also sneaking through on the inside and his loss of momentum allowed Marcus Ericsson’s Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda to go around him on the outside of Turn 1 and claim the inside at Turn 2.
Behind them, Scott Dixon and Alex Palou had moved into seventh and eighth ahead of sixth-place starter Simon Pagenaud, and the Meyer Shank Racing-Honda had also lost ninth to Pato O’Ward, up from 16th on the grid in his Arrow McLaren SP-Chevy.
Josef Newgarden pitted from 11th on Lap 10, the top driver to go off strategy, and switch from Firestone’s…
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