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May 26, 2017 | By Paul Kelly, Indianapolis Motor Speedway
The box score shows Matheus Leist led every lap of the Freedom 100 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, but the victory in his first career oval race was anything but a leisurely Friday drive. Leist, from Novo Hamburgo, Brazil, held off Aaron Telitz by .7760 of a second to win the Freedom 100 Indy Lights race Friday afternoon. Dalton Kellett finished third, edged at the Yard of Bricks by Telitz and just .8401 of a second behind Leist. “I think we had just a perfect car today, and I thought that I would have hardest race, definitely,” Leist said. “But anyway, we managed to drive the whole race, and I'm very happy. The car was just perfect throughout the whole race, so we managed to keep in front.” Leist started from the pole in the No. 26 TMA entry fielded by Carlin. He held off the field on a restart on Lap 5 after contact on the first lap between Ryan Norman and Colton Herta in Turn 2 triggered the only caution of the race. Telitz gradually reined in Leist over the middle laps, pulling within a car length on Lap 33 of the 40-lap race. On Lap 34, Leist and Telitz drag-raced side by side through Turns 1 and 2. Telitz was on the outside in the No. 9 Mazda/Rice Lake Weighing Systems entry, trying to replicate Rick Mears’ famous pass of Michael Andretti to win the 1991 Indianapolis 500. But Leist held off Telitz exiting Turn 2. The fun wasn’t done. Telitz then tried the identical outside pass of Leist in Turn 3 on the same lap, but Leist parried it again. Leist never trailed again. “It was a tough battle,” Leist said. “I thought he would overtake me, actually, and he didn't manage to do it. But I was just trying to kept relax and do my job.” A loss of momentum from the blunted pass attempt dropped Telitz into the clutches of Kellett’s No. 28 K-Line Insulators USA, Inc. Mazda. Kellett eased past Telitz for second at the Yard of Bricks to start Lap 35. The top three cars then marched in lockstep around the 2.5-mile oval for the last five laps. Kellett tried to draft close enough to attempt a final-lap pass of Leist, but Leist was too strong. Telitz earned revenge for Kellett’s pass on Lap 35 by getting a strong run exiting Turn 4 on the final lap, edging his rival for second at the Yard of Bricks start-finish line. Points leader Kyle Kaiser finished eighth in the No. 18 Juncos Racing entry.