ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – This new IndyCar season, so full of promise as fans return to races and with a field from first to last that's tighter than ever, took a familiar turn when the Herta kid put it on the pole at St.
Petersburg. It was Colton Herta, the 21-year-old second-generation driver, who edged out his rivals for the top starting spot in Sunday’s race on the 1.8-mile downtown temporary course that runs along Tampa Bay.
Herta is a legitimate title contender and part of a youth wave leading a changing of the guard in IndyCar. And yet this pole-winning run came 16 years after his father, Bryan, won the pole at St.