After some aggressive passes on the opening lap by Zach Veach, there was little doubt about who would win the final Indy Lights race of the season in Monterey, but the outcome of the championship battle - and a Mazda scholarship valued at $1m to ensure entry in a minimum of three races in the 2017 Verizon IndyCar Series - was rather less straightforward. Veach, indeed, sped home to a controlled victory, his third of the season and series-high sixth for Belardi Auto Racing by a comfortable margin of 2.8798secs but, behind him with one lap remaining around the 2.238-mile Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca road course, Santiago 'Santi' Urrutia (Schmidt Peterson Motorsports with Curb-Agajanian), looked...
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