Christian Rasmussen burst away from pole leading HMD Motorsports teammate Nolan Siegel, while Louis Foster and Hunter McElrea led the Andretti Autosport charge in third and fourth.
However, Kyffin Simpson (HMD), who had passed series returnee Toby Sowery on the opening lap, made a late dive on McElrea at Turn 5 on Lap 2 and his right-front made contact with the Andretti car’s left-rear and spun it around. Thus Sowery moved into fourth ahead of two of his HMD teammates Danial Frost and Josh Green.
