Penske has 18 wins in the Memorial Day Weekend classic, but last year the four-car team lined up 17th, 21st, 26th and 32nd on the 11 x 3 grid. And while all four cars showed good pace in the race, culminating in the now-departed Simon Pagenaud coming through the field to finish third, Roger Penske’s team’s qualifying struggles had left the drivers with too much to do in the 200-lap race.
Asked if the team had nailed down what had caused its dearth of pace during four-lap qualifying around the 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Newgarden replied, “I don’t know if you can. For me it’s going to be a dollop of this, a dollop of that. It’s a million areas, right? I don’t think we can pin our hat on one thing.
“There was no smoking gun. There usually isn’t. With Indianapolis… we had to look at everything and hopefully it turns out to be 10 to 20 little things we found. We put all those together and it makes the difference for us.
“We certainly aren’t looking at one…
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