At the start, polesitter Lundqvist got an immediate jump on fellow front-row starter Sting Ray Robb, who fell back to fourth behind two of his teammates, Hunter McElrea and Christian Rasmussen.
Behind Robb, Jacob Abel attempted to go around the outside of another Andretti driver, Matthew Brabham, at Turn 3, but Abel found himself elbowed out onto the grass on the run to Turn 4, causing him to lose a place to Danial Frost of HMD. He would lose another spot on Lap 4 to Global Racing Group HMD’s Benjamin Pedersen, who had suffered a mechanical failure during qualifying, on Lap 4.
