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SCOTT MCLAUGHLIN No. 3 PPG CHEVROLET
START: 8TH
FINISH: 2ND
POINTS: 6TH (-179)
RACE RUNDOWN:
Scott McLaughlin and the No. 3 PPG Chevrolet team began Sunday with a second-place finish in the Snap-on Milwaukee Mile 250, the second race of the weekend. The seven-time NTT INDYCAR SERIES race winner took the green flag from the eighth position, but improved handling overnight allowed McLaughlin to race his way inside the top five following the team’s first pit stop on Lap 39. A call to stay out under a Lap 143 caution period gave McLaughlin the lead for the first time. Despite falling back to the third as the race progressed, McLaughlin and his PPG crew performed a solid, green flag pit cycle on their final pit stop at Lap 193 to push McLaughlin into the second position where he would take the checkered flag for his third podium of the year.
MCLAUGHLIN’S THOUGHTS: “All in all, not a bad weekend for the Clarience / PPG Chevy but it should have been two podiums. (Scott) Dixon is my hero so I don’t want to say too much about what happened but we gifted the 76 a podium, simple as that. The 3 car was fantastic all weekend. Really proud of the effort from the crew because they were thrown into a tough situation with the weather. One more weekend to get a win and we are going to Laguna (Seca) to do just that.”
