— On so many occasions throughout the past decade, Kyle O’Gara found himself so close yet so far away from the elusive top step of the podium at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park. Back a bit further was O’Gara who regathered himself and began his forward trajectory, dicing past Trainor for fourth on the fifth lap and then tracked down Santos for third on lap 11. The top-three running order of Swanson, Gurney and O’Gara began to bunch up like the squeeze of an accordion. However, O’Gara wasn’t content to stand still as he rifled his way to second under Gurney using the middle-low groove in turn three on lap 16. Swanson wasn’t planning to go away that easily and got back around O’Gara by zooming the outside at the entry to turn one.

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