VeeKay’s Ed Carpenter Racing-Chevrolet, started the second round of the championship from eighth, but the young Dutchman was suffering severe understeer in the opening stint, prompting him to become the first front-runner to make a pitstop on Lap 53.
He had climbed to ninth before all cars stopped under yellow on Lap 103 and he emerged in sixth, and following a Lap 149 restart after the fourth and final caution, he was able to surge past Marcus Ericsson and Scott Dixon of Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda and 10 laps later had passed all three Team Penske-Chevrolets to hit the front.
However, in order to make it on only one more stop in the 248-lap race, VeeKay and the other leading runners would have to feather the throttle, so after five laps he was backing up the pack, allowing Will Power to pass him for the lead.
By Lap 186 he had fallen to seventh, and made his final stop, five to eight laps before his rivals, which crippled his pace for the final stint and he eventually came home…
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