Race 2 Highlights | 2026 INDY NXT at Alabama

Are we ready to ride the Alabama roller coaster one more time. Here we go from Barber Motorsports Park. DiTullio on the inside. The number 14 grabs the point. Nikita Johnson sweeps into second getting by Taylor through turn one. I thought DiTullio had an awesome jump there and we're going to keep watching this battle. Taylor looked like he was going to try and roll the outside there in three. He can't but maybe he can into five. Johnson holds second. Big draft down into turn five. Taylor is going to try to go around the outside side by side right behind them and line up all the way through the field. Will they get through? No. One is off in the grass. That's Josh Pearson drops wheels, continues. That's where his race ended yesterday. He has not had a lot of luck in turn five, Kevin, and we're still seeing the battling and that is the most difficult part of this track to go side by side in. It's what led to the big incident yesterday, but so far all these drivers through cleanly. And there's scraps everywhere as they start to sort themselves out. And no, two go off. Miles Rowe and Max Garcia, teammates with Abel Motorsports. Rowe a part of the Force Indy program. Garcia has significant damage. How about Rowe? Let's see. Oh, yeah, a lot of damage there for Max Garcia. On board with Max Garcia now. You see him turn in. He turns out. Miles probably trying not to make contact. Ends up just taking too much of that curb. They bounce into each other. It's just really unfortunate and that's such a fine balance racing teammates of not enough respect and then in this moment perhaps maybe even too much. By the way, in the middle of this, Max Taylor got by Nikita Johnson and he's back into second and the top two have started to gap and Taylor is on the charge right on the rear wing of Alessandro de Tullio. I said right at the start, watch this guy. He's going to be moving forward. He started eighth already in fifth and right on the tail of Fittipaldi. And we are seeing a nice battle coming over the hill in turn four. Staddy and Pearson running for 14th position. Green and black car is Pearson trying to go to the inside of turn five. Still side by side. Drag race down here. Someone is going to have to give. Which one will lift? Neither. And Pearson gets through. Maybe Staddy backed off just a little bit. They all get through nicely. There's a penalty here we've just learned for the 29 of Josh Pearson and it's for this for avoidable contact on the 17 of Salvador de Alba. It's not a drive through. I believe three positions he has to give up because de Alba was able to continue that turquoise car back there. Sixth in line is challenging, but we need to pay attention to what's happening up front. Battles all over, missing, looking to the inside, back there, side by side. He's got fifth for a moment and Kaharchuk comes back. Missick switching as well. Johnson is being battled for the final spot on the podium. Fittipaldi is right there and will have a run at the end of this stretch. Dances to the outside. Johnson stays in front. All Johnson needs to do now be really smooth through this little chicane. Really good exit out of 13 and then just cover. Cover the inside of 16 and just be done with it today. Looks one more time. Johnson still in front. Just a few more corners to go. It was heartbreak yesterday. He had started on the polling consecutive races, had nothing to show for it. But the 19-year-old from Argentina and Miami, Florida, is now a winner at Indy next. Alessandro De Tullio and A.J. Foyt win at Barber Motorsports Park. Nice job, Shaq. Vamos! Thank you, everyone. And it's another new winner. Third one this year, Alessandro De Tullio.