And he then proved untouchable, main all 35 laps en path to profitable by a staggering 17.8813s.
The Dane’s No. 6 HMD Motorsports entry made a clear getaway at the beginning and pulled away from the sector, gapping to just about greater than 2.5s after Lap 2 of 35. Andretti Autosport’s Hunter McElrea, who received Race 1 on Saturday, dropped to 3rd at the beginning to team-mate Louis Foster shortly after the beginning, however reclaimed it by the next lap.
On Lap 5, Kyffin Simpson made a late transfer on Reece Gold getting into Flip 6 within the battle for sixth, with the pair coming collectively that led to former spinning out and bringing out the warning on the next lap. Simpson acquired a penalty for avoidable contact and was dropped to the again of the sector.
Rasmussen launched away from McElrea on the Lap 7 restart.
Rookie Francesco Pizzi (Abel Motorsports), solely racing his third weekend within the sequence, was on the early cost, shifting as much as eighth on Lap 10 from his beginning place of 14.
Pizzi tried a transfer on James Roe (Andretti Autosport) for seventh on Lap 18, however as an alternative did his greatest Alex Zanardi impersonation and reduce the nook, with the bumps bouncing his entrance wing on the asphalt and getting barely harm. Roe was in a position to maintain onto the place, whereas Pizzi remained in eighth.
On Lap 20, Rasmussen held a cushty 4.3s lead over McElrea, with Foster 12s again in third.
Roe’s probabilities for a high 10 evaporated with 10 laps to go when he spun astray in Flip 10, dropping right down to seventeenth from seventh. Though Pizzi was elevated to seventh, it was short-lived as he was black flagged by race management because of his broken entrance wing.
Simpson’s day went from dangerous to worse as a damaged entrance wing additionally led to him being black flagged with 5 laps to go, relegating him to sixteenth.
Jamie Chadwick (Andretti Autosport), who began sixteenth and completed twelfth, was within the mixture of a number of battles and made a race-high 25 on-track passes.
In the long run, Rasmussen proved an excessive amount of to deal with as he closed out his Indy NXT profession with a win on the 11-turn, 2.238-mile circuit. McElrea, who completed second within the championship, and Foster settled the remainder of the rostrum.
Juncos Hollinger Racing’s Matthew Brabham and Abel Motorsports’ Jacob Abel completed fourth and fifth, respectively.
