Milwaukee winner Mario Romancini finished fourth, taking his fourth consecutive top four finish, while Gustavo Yacaman finished fifth, despite developing abdominal pains, for his second consecutive top-five finish.

"I'm very happy with the finish, because we didn't have a good qualifying and started 13th," Romancini commented, "It's good for the championship because we scored good points, and let's go for the next one now. It's a very tough track and it's difficult to pass, and that's why I'm happy."

Behind polesitter Hildebrand, Charlie Kimball tied his career-best finish with a seventh, while Martin Plowman, Herrington and James Davison rounded out the top ten, the latter despite the incident that forced the race to end under yellow.

"Tonight's race was definitely frustrating for us," Hildebrand commented, "We started on the pole, so we knew we had a good car, but we also knew we were fighting a bit of understeer in qualifying. With such big condition changes before the race, it made it really tough to get the car set up and the understeer continued to get worse throughout the race. After the drive-thru' penalty, we lost position and had to fight our way back up. It's difficult to pass here and the understeer wouldn't allow us to get close enough to other cars."


Both Davison and Mann, who was classified 13th, were checked and cleared to drive by Dr Michael Olinger following their accident - one that the Vision Racing driver appeared to take the blame for.

"There were two laps to go and Hildebrand, Kimball and myself were all battling for position," he reported, "We were running into a bunch of lapped traffic, and ultimately Pippa, who was off pace battling a loose car. Running behind JR, my car just went up into her, we tangled and that was it. The most frustrating thing is to do damage to the car with two laps remaining in the race. We didn't lose much - we were running seventh and ended up tenth - but, for sure, it is not good and having to deal with that."

Mann, meanwhile, had been struggling since an earlier spin, but insisted that she was helpless in the moment that ended her race.

"I am not sure what happened," the Briton admitted, "The car was tight when we started but then [went] very loose as we got to the middle of the race. It made my life very interesting. I think I had just touched with Brandon Wagner and that caused the first spin, so I came into the pits and we made adjustments to the car, but unfortunately it went the wrong way. I was still struggling quite a bit, and was just riding it out, but it was difficult to stay out of the way of the lead lap cars. I just know I got hit and saw the wall coming. I won't tell you what I said - it is not printable, but it was something like 'oh crap!'.

"I said that repeatedly, and then I was upside down. I could smell the sparks, and by the time the car stopped I had my belts off and hands on the ground and ripped out my ear phones trying to get out since I wanted to get out as quickly as I could because of the smell of the sparks. That was my first time upside down."