Ilott shouldered the blame for the crash, which wasn’t helped by Kirkwood hanging wide and slowing his car more than those around him before turning in.

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“I’ll take sixth from being 27 th, my second-best Ind圜ar finish.” Read Also: I nearly got P3 on one of them, but we ended up sixth and I was just happy to finish inside the top 10. He said: “We had those couple of yellows at the end and everyone was just throwing haymakers – I was just trying to stay out of it and keep my nose clean. Kirkwood said he refrained from attempting to gain any more spots in the caution-packed closing stages once he’d climbed into the top six positions. Photo by: Jake Galstad / Motorsport Images

Kyle Kirkwood, Andretti Autosport Honda, Callum Ilott, Juncos Hollinger Racing Chevrolet crash at first corner of race Cycling back to P6, I thought that was phenomenal and I was ready to finish right there!”

“Our strategy cycled us in front of a lot of cars and we were able to pass a lot of cars because of our pace, and we had great pitstops, so everything played in our favor there. “But we stuck with our gut, we stuck with the same strategy we’d planned on doing because we knew we had a really fast car all weekend, so we used that to our advantage among the close racing. “I got hit from behind and cycled back to 27 th, which was super-unfortunate but it’s part of Ind圜ar sometimes, and it’s out of your control – and I’ve had a lot of those this year unfortunately,” Kirkwood told NBC. They managed to replace it without losing a lap, but it meant the Long Beach Grand Prix winner restarted the race dead last. The impact smashed his rear wing, requiring his team to fit a new one under caution.

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