One race into this NTT INDYCAR SERIES season, Colton Herta is already at the doorstep of what could begin to define his 2022. It’s the first of five oval races on the 2022 calendar. I don’t even think I’ve finished on the podium on an oval yet. Herta has competed in 15 oval races since joining INDYCAR in 2019, and indeed he has yet to finish in the top three of any of them. He finished second at Iowa later that year and was second at IMS in 2017. For now, Herta is confident that first win is coming because he has qualified so well in recent oval races. “I think at some of the ovals we’ve proven we’re good at, like at Gateway we were strong at (last year) and at Iowa I think I was good at (in 2020),” he said. He finished fifth in last year’s second race and was seventh in 2020.

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