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Herta’s oval win poses him as a 2025 IndyCar title menace
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Herta’s oval win poses him as a 2025 IndyCar title menace

By Miles Cooper October 30, 2024
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Colton Herta can have a simple go of maintaining motivated within the IndyCar low season after seizing victory final Sunday within the 2024 finale at Nashville Superspeedway.

The spectacular transfer that introduced the 24-year-old Herta a boon of excellent fortune and triumph got here after a late move on Arrow McLaren’s Pato O’Ward with 5 laps to go. The 2 had been battling and, as they got here up on the lapped automotive of Sting Ray Robb, O’Ward — the race chief — went excessive, whereas Herta dove low and carried sufficient momentum to additionally get to the within of O’Ward earlier than clearing him to take the lead down the backstretch. 

Not solely did it mark the ninth win of Herta’s profession, however it was his first on an oval and helped catapult him to complete a career-high second within the championship standings.

“The entire race, I used to be getting my passes achieved coming off the corners,” Herta mentioned. 

“I used to be capable of drive off the center to exit of the corners, and get the facility down rather well. We had a lapped automotive to play off of, and we had simply sufficient room between us to go down low and get the move (on O’Ward) achieved. I’m simply so joyful. The Gainbridge Group 1001 Honda has been so quick this entire weekend. We did not get to indicate it in qualifying, however we knew we had a scorching rod within the race right this moment. It’s been an incredible 12 months. Second within the championship is superior, however it offers us one thing to shoot for in 2025.”

Herta’s oval win poses him as a 2025 IndyCar title menace

Colton Herta, Andretti World w/ Curb-Agajanian Honda, podium, guitar, Alex Palou, Chip Ganassi Racing Honda

Picture by: Michael L. Levitt / Motorsport Pictures

Herta ends the 12 months with two wins, six podiums (career-high), 10 high fives and three poles in 17 races. Uniquely, his solely different win on an oval additionally got here in opposition to O’Ward through the 2018 Indy NXT season within the Freedom 100 on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.  Moreover, this marked the primary victory on an oval for Andretti Autosport since 2018 with Alexander Rossi at Pocono Raceway.

“It’s about time,” Herta mentioned. “I feel there’s been a number of instances the place I assumed we might have received or ought to have received, and quite a few issues occurred to cease us from doing that. Fortunately, right this moment we received all of it proper.

“I feel that was within the type of slightly little bit of visitors to catch again as much as Pato. I feel it was, from my perspective, a extremely thrilling race for it to shut out like that proper in the previous few laps, have me battle Pato, then Josef (Newgarden) near battling Pato. No, it was an awesome race.”

When requested if the efficiency was an announcement main into subsequent 12 months, Herta supplied a candid response.

“I hope so,” Herta mentioned. “There’s an entire bunch of issues we might have achieved to win the championship this 12 months. I feel we’ll mirror on that, have a look at it going into the low season.

“It does harm slightly bit when you concentrate on successful the final race, and he did not have a very sturdy one, so we might have made up a number of factors right this moment if we would have liked to in that championship battle.”

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