Former Indy Lights champion Tristan Vautier has been given an 11th hour call-up to the Indianapolis 500. In what is a strange twist, Vautier will replace Carlos Huertas in the #18 Dale Coyne Racing Honda. Vautier was charged with qualifying that team’s #19 car last Sunday as Australian James Davison was on Pirelli World Challenge duties in Canada. Vautier now finds himself on the back row of the grid alongside Davison and Ryan Briscoe, the replacement for the injured James Hinchcliffe. The 25-year-old now finds himself with the rare distinction of qualifying one car and starting in another. It has not been confirmed why Huertas, a winner of the now defunct Houston street race last year,...
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