Newgarden led only three laps compared with his teammate’s 186, but one of them was the final one, as he gained momentum through Turns 3 and 4 to pass McLaughlin around the outside on the run to the checkered flag. His winning margin was 0.0669sec.
“I’m telling you, I was yelling!” said Penske’s two-time champion. “I was on the radio way before the line, which I don’t normally do. You don’t do that. You stay in the race.
“I was just so pumped up that the car was sticking, I wasn’t flying towards the fence. But I’ve never had a race end that way. I’ve never been in a position to capitalize on that type of victory.
“I was really excited. Still really am. That’s one of the coolest wins, probably the coolest win I’ve ever had in the #2 car. Hopefully we have more of those. Yeah, really, really neat to be a part of that.”
Newgarden had to climb from seventh on the grid, and at one point had dropped to the fringes of the Top 10, but an early first stop due to a…
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