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The famed “Month of May” concludes with the 109th running of the Indianapolis 500. Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden is aiming to become the first driver ever to win three consecutive Indy 500s, but to do so, he’ll have to do it from the final row of the grid.
Helio Castroneves is seeking his record fifth win at the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, while Josef Newgarden also chases history.
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Josef Newgarden beat teammate Will Power in the finals of the Indianapolis 500 pit-stop challenge on Friday, giving the whole of Team Penske something to feel good about after a trying week leading up to “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.
Newgarden turned a lap at 225.687 to top the timing charts in Friday’s Carb Day final practice session. He was followed by fellow two-time race-winner Takuma Sato (225.415) and six-time series champion Scott Dixon (225.200).
Josef Newgarden thinks he still can win a third straight Indy 500, even after this week's penalty. "I just see a bigger mountain," he says.
He won the pole with Italian team Prema Racing, a dominant European organization that this season expanded to IndyCar. Shwartzman has never before raced on an oval and will start alongside two-time winner Takuma Sato and Pato O’Ward, who lost to Newgarden on the last lap year.
On Carburetion Day, better known as Carb Day, at the Indianapolis 500 on Friday, the fastest car perhaps fittingly belonged to the two-time defending champion.
Josef Newgarden opened Media Day establishing a boundary: his only focus was Sunday. Not the violations. Not the firings. Just Sunday.
The two-time defending champ, who will start from the back on Sunday because of a modified part, posts a lap at 225.687 mph on Carb Day. Two-time winner Takuma Sato and teammate Graham Rahal
Two-time defending Indy 500 winner Josef Newgarden had the fastest lap of the 2-hour final practice on Carb Day at 225.687 mph
The first half of the two-phase Indianapolis 500 qualifying procedure took place to set positions seven through 12, and the results were absolutely unexpected as all three Team Penske cars failed to turn a lap as a result of Scott McLaughlin’s crash a few hours earlier and a failure
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Roger Penske personally told Will Power about the firings of Team Penske’s top three executives and the decision came after a sleepless night of contemplating how to handle a cheating scandal ahead of the Indianapolis 500.