
At the start Power took the lead from pole with Newgarden falling into line with Conor Daly holding off O’Ward’s attempt to get around him on the outside, and Scott McLaughlin and David Malukas took fifth and sixth. Behind them, Rinus VeeKay’s Ed Carpenter Racing-Chevrolet got around Jack Harvey’s Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing-Honda to claim seventh.
Championship leader Marcus Ericsson moved up three spots from ninth on the outside and by Lap 7, he was up to eighth having passed the second Arrow McLaren SP-Chevrolet of Felix Rosenqvist. However, Rosenqvist would move back up to ninth when he passed Harvey on Lap 12. Moments later, O’Ward demoted Daly to fourth.