The 2016 Indy 500 winner Alexander Rossi had a terrible qualifying run and will start from the middle of the last row but says it’s an opportunity to show what we can do. While Marco Andretti will lead the six-car Andretti Autosport assault, starting from 12th after an average of 227.288mph, Rossi’s average was only 224.935. After starting his run with a 227.454mph lap, he radioed to his team that it was loose, and on the second lap, he lost 0.8mph, and on laps 3 and 4 he was having to rescue some vicious slides toward the wall, dropping to 224 and 221mph. “The NAPA Andretti Honda deserved to be higher up,” he said afterward. “I thought we were fighting for a position in Row 4,...
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