INDIANAPOLIS — Matt Campbell was nervous about Turn 1, Lap 1 of Sunday’s TireRack.com Battle on the Bricks. The last time he was on the pole of an IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship race he made a costly error in that scenario.

With being quickest in Friday’s practice, quickest on Saturday morning and then scoring the pole, the race was in their grasps. They just had to have a clean day. Unfortunately, it lasted all of one corner.

Campbell got in too hot into the opening turn, later blaming the tarmac being slick off line, for which allowed Mathieu Jaminet in the team car to escape by. Jaminet would lead for the entire first hour before pitting for the first time on Lap 35. That’s where this race got a little bonkers. Race control deemed Pipo Derani had the lead after the round of stops.

Derani checked out once the race resumed but eventually made a costly error in Turn 1 with 1-hour, 3-minutes remaining and locked the brakes and overshot Turn 1. That handed the lead over to the 7 Porsche again with Felipe Nasr and Tandy having an intense battle for the top spot.

Nasr held command the rest of that sequence before pitting with 46 minutes left (Lap 76). Tandy did the overcut by pitting one lap later (Lap 77). Nasr meanwhile was trying to go hard on his out lap and got off course in Turn 7 on cold tires.

Between that and a quick stop on the 6 car, they were now 7.9-seconds back after that sequence. The lead grew over 10 seconds as they finished 17.421-seconds back. Their bid for two straight wins came up short but they do have two consecutive top two finishes now heading to Road Atlanta.