RACE REPORT: 109th Running of the Indianapolis 500 Presented by Gainbridge

• Rolling off 23rd, Kirkwood dropped a few positions after his opening pit stop before slowly carving his way back through the field, even moving into the lead by Lap 61.
• By Lap 85, Kirkwood had worked his way up to 11th, and 50 laps later, the American would finally break into the top 10.
• By the time the checkered flag waved, Kirkwood had worked his way into sixth, earning him the title of Josten’s Biggest Mover of the Race, his career-best Indianapolis 500 finish and his 27th top-10 finish of his INDYCAR career.

“It was a good day today with both Marcus in contention for the win and finishing second, and then our No. 27 Siemens team finishing the day in P6. We’ll definitely take that result from where we started. It’s not exactly what we wanted, considering we had such a strong race car. We just had a couple of hiccups early on that hurt us. Overall, we fought hard from where we started, and it was a good day.”