Colton Herta won one of the wildest races in recent NTT INDYCAR SERIES history, controlling the chaos of changing weather conditions, ever-evolving tire strategies and numerous incidents to take the checkered flag for the GMR Grand Prix on Saturday on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course. The rest of the field quickly followed suit, with all 27 drivers changing to alternate slicks by Lap 5. During a caution period on Lap 60 with intermittent rain falling, all the contending cars came to the pits for Firestone alternate slick tires. The race restarted at the end of Lap 66, and Herta – on rain tires – easily devoured the slick-shod O’Ward to take the lead for good with an inside pass into Turn 1 after the field took the green. O’Ward also spun out of second place on Lap 69 in his No. Herta gradually pulled away from Pagenaud over the closing laps, as teams kept their eyes on the race clock and the skies.

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