ALEXANDER ROSSI
NO. 27 NAPA AUTO PARTS / AUTONATION HONDA
Started from pole and led 16 laps on his way to a 27th-career podium finish in third place.
Third-career podium finish at Elkhart Lake’s Road America.
Fastest Lap Leader with a best lap of 135.224 mph (106.8628 sec) on Lap 13.
“It was a generally good day. I think Josef (Newgarden) had a little bit better pace than us. I think we were the second-best car. I got aggressive on the last restart just to do something and overstepped a little and I let Marcus (Ericsson) go past. I don’t know that we would have been able to win. We got held up a little bit with Scott McLaughlin coming into the pits when we were trying to leave during the first sequence. From then on it was really just about closing the gap to Josef. A little disappointing but all-in-all I think it was a positive weekend for a lot of reasons.”
START–1st
FINISH–3rd
CHAMPIONSHIP–7th (218 pts)
Andretti Autosport had its strongest run of the year finishing third, fourth, fifth and 18th in the Sonsio Grand Prix of Road America. Alexander Rossi took home his second straight podium of the season with a third-place finish. Behind Rossi were teammates Romain Grosjean and Colton Herta in fourth and fifth, respectively. Devlin DeFrancesco battled back from two penalties to finish 18th overall.
TIL NEXT TIME, I AM STILL WORKING ON MY REDNECK!
