Herta wins at Laguna Seca on Grosjean Party Day. Balu is in second place

Then Sato decided to appear in the worst possible way: he rolled and hit Dixon, which delayed the New Zealander and broke his suspension. Despite following the green flag, McLaughlin, Harvey, and Ward stopped. Once again, the Mexican put on solid tires.

Ballou did the second title together and came back in second, with every face someone who would have aggressively served up the title this Sunday. Herta had a 29sec and 25sec lead over the Catalan, but he will have to stop soon. Grosjean, Jones and O’Ward closed the top five.

The race overcame half of the 95 laps with Herta returning from the pits a second and a second ahead of Palu, who is struggling with lagging traffic. O’Ward, Ericsson, Rahal and Newgarden appeared in the back, 30 seconds off the hands. Grosjean and Jones stopped together again, and were 11th and 14th.

Newgarden’s ordeal was followed by a third stop on lap 49, again on solid tyres, in an effort to extend the job. The American only came back in thirteenth, farther and farther from the title fight. Ballou was still putting pressure on Hertha, trapped in the late Rosenqvist.

The passage formed by Hinchcliffe, which had a series of purists, Herta and Palou, remained unchanged. Colton finally passed Rosenqvist on lap 60, but he still had a good team to beat. Pato, 17 behind Hertha, was trying to take advantage of the situation.

Herta and Balu finally manage to dodge most of the Radicals, while O’Ward ceases to be able to bridge the gap to the leaders. Colton had 3s0 for Alex and 17s3 for Pato, who saw Erickson, Rahal, Pagenaud and Grogan in the rearview mirror.

With 30 laps to go, Rahal cleared Ericsson and finished fourth. Then the last stop window opened, with Palou, O’Ward, Rahal, Ericsson and Jones opening. By the way, on the way out of the pits, Marcus was stepping on the ground and almost spinning.

Hertha was stopping, and even back behind Grosjean, he wasted no time and beat the Frenchman in a row. Repositioning after the final stop was for Hertha with 5s6 for Palou, 13s1 for Rahal, 16s8 for O’Ward, Ericsson 19s2 at the back, then Pagenaud, Grosjean, Askew, Newgarden and Hunter-Reay.

Grosjean’s show continued. France overtook Pagenaud and Ericsson and entered the title fight with a stunning maneuver from the outside over Oward. Rahal was the next target and there will indeed be a worthy place on the podium.

Rahal’s upward maneuver came 12 laps ahead, and finished third for the Americans. The Frenchman was dreaming of second place, but had 10 seconds to take it with Palou with the softer tires already getting more wear.

In pursuit of Ballou, Grojjean ended up playing hard with Johnson at Corkscrew, with the American defending the Catalan with his teeth and nails. Romain insisted, but he had 3 seconds to take in six laps.

Roman didn’t give in, as the end of the race was fun. Colton could outsmart it, but it was Baloo who came out laughing from ear to ear, one hand on his glass.

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