Christian Rasmusen “not surprised” to earn his first Indycar Podium on an oval “

Christian rasmusen Put a lot on the show during the Bomrito Automotive Group 500 of Sunday night in the 1.25-mile oval of World Wide Technology Reswe. Ed Carpenter Racing driver made more than 70 on-track passes To secure the third place, finishing behind the race winner Kyle Kirkwood And runner-up peto o’ward.

Rasmusen started in 25th position after struggling in qualifying, and had to cross the fire on lap 50 coming out of the pits, with their fuel tank partially empty. When he was in ninth place, he returned to 33 laps.

Dane driver went on a lap, but got back when the people in front of him fell. He was in fifth place by Lap 106, which was in fourth place Joseph Newgarden Crashes Lewis foster,

Mid-race penalty to fight back

Rasmusen looked good for the night, but his number 21 ran out of the fuel during the extended precaution after the rubble, so he had to make an emergency pit stop on lap 134 when the pits were closed.

This earned him a penalty, which put him on the 18th position to resume the race – about all the drivers on the lead lap – but he returned to the top 10 25 laps later and back to the fourth place in Lap 190.

He returned to the top five ahead of his final pit stop at 225 and started the last 35 laps at the 15th place. Soon, he reached the eighth position from Lap 245 and the checker moved to third place from only four laps before the flag.

“As soon as I came to know how well my car worked on the high side, it was just the game”, Rasmusen later asked to emphasize his number 21 Chevi’s performance.

“I was able to pass the cars – we also once dominated the emergency service because we were out of the fuel once, so I had to resume at the end of the tail, and it was right at the point where I had gone through most of the area and was in front, but had to go to the back, went back, and the man, we were just coming,” We were just coming. ” ,

Although Rasmusen admitted that it was annoying to drive through the ground twice, he was ready to work.

“I certainly got a little disappointed to re -rebuild. But on his flipcide, I knew that I could do it. I knew that I was moving forward and I was probably the car in the ground that was the most moving. I just kept my head down and passed the cars. There was no other way around it”.

The result was just the second top -10 finish of Rasmusen on an oval, which finished sixth in the Indianapolis 500 last month, which was his best finish in the Indycar series until Sunday. However, Dane was not surprised.

“This is certainly important, but I think it’s coming. I have been good around most of my career, or actually since all my career since I started to oval. It is very natural for me just. For the first podium, I am not surprised that it’s an oval.”