Herta dominates in Laguna Seca, overall leader Palou claims second place | IndyCar Series | 2021

Colton Herta routed the field in another dominating performance at Laguna Seca as Alex Palou moved one race away from the IndyCar championship.

Herta won from the pole, same as he did in 2019 when IndyCar last raced the sprawling permanent road course, for his second win of the season.

He tied his father, Bryan, with a pair of wins at Laguna Seca, but more important, his fifth career victory moved him one past his dad's tally.

Palou, meanwhile, drove a smooth and steady race for a second-place finish to widen his lead in the IndyCar standings from 25 points to 35 points over Pato O'Ward headed into next week's finale.

Romain Grosjean put on a spectacular show as he made a race-high 27 passes and appeared to have a shot to potentially catch the leaders until he struggled to get past the lapped car of Jimmie Johnson.

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WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, Monterey, California, USA. 19th September 2021.

0:00 Start of the race
0:22 #27 Alexander Rossi and #26 Colton Herta make contact
0:38 #51 Romain Grosjean passes #45 Oliver Askew
0:48 #10 Alex Palou passes #30 Takuma Sato
1:03 Battle between #9 Scott Dixon and Romain Grosjean
1:16 #5 Pato O'Ward passes #2 Josef Newgarden
1:27 Romain Grosjean passes #3 Scott McLaughlin
1:39 Slo-mo of Takuma Sato spinning in the Corkscrew and hitting Scott Dixon
++MUTE++
1:48 Alex Palou catching race leader Colton Herta as both reach traffic
1:54 Colton Herta passes Romain Grosjean for the lead
2:04 Romain Grosjean passes Pato O'Ward for fourth
2:14 Romain Grosjean passes #15 Graham Rahal for third
2:23 Aerial of Romain Grosjean making contact with #48 Jimmie Johnson
2:33 26 Colton Herta last few corners to take the win

SOURCE: VNR

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