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Carpenter rues missed chance to attack Power for Indy win

Indianapolis 500 runner-up Ed Carpenter says he wishes he’d attacked Will Power on a restart, which was his only realistic chance of stopping him from winning of the 102nd running of the event. Carpenter scored his best-ever Indy 500 finish, beating his fifth position in 2008, having started the race on pole and leading convincingly in the first half of the race. He then fell behind Power, but passed up a chance to attack after the yellow for Sebastian Bourdais’s crash. “We lost the lead in one of the pit sequences, so we’ll have to look at the data and if I had a bad in-lap,” he said. “Thought the guys’ stops were great, the whole time, there was one out-lap where I caught a...
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