The first oval-track event of the NTT INDYCAR SERIES season featured a spectacular afternoon of racing at Texas Motor Speedway, with 439 passes for position, which was almost 150 more than occurred in the same race a year ago. Five of them have been in oval races, including twice at Texas in the past three years. He won a pole in 2021 and has finishes of fourth, seventh, seventh and third in the past four races. This was only his third superspeedway race, and he led Laps 220 and 221 in the No. He might not have had the fastest car of the race, but his finishing position showed he did the best with it. For the second series race of his career, he again didn’t put a wheel wrong and has two 12th-place finishes to begin the season.

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