– Simon Pagenaud survived a serious late-race challenge from Graham Rahal to win the Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama on Sunday from pole. Caution-free throughout, the race came down to the final few laps when Rahal was chasing the Frenchman through lapped traffic.Trading positions in dramatic fashion, eventual contact with the lapped car of Jack Hawksworth destroyed Rahal's front wing and eliminated any challenge to Pagenaud, who has now won two races in a row. The determined American kept going, however, holding on to second place in front of last year's winner, Josef Newgarden.With eight laps to go, Rahal had caught Pagenaud as they maneuvered through the backmarkers, but contact...
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