There aren't many tougher places to make your oval-track debut than a short track that's bumpy, insanely fast and even a handful for a veteran driver. So give Esteban Gutierrez very high marks for Sunday's performance at the Iowa Speedway. The 25-year-old native of Monterrey, Mexico started 18th, ran as high as eighth and wound up 13th only one lap down to the leaders. He finished ahead of Charlie Kimball, Indy winner Takuma Sato and Marco Andretti and never put a wheel wrong all afternoon despite the non-stop traffic jam on the 7/8th-mile oval. "I did better than I thought I was going to do," he said with a grin sitting on the golf cart with owner Dale Coyne. "But I enjoyed...
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