Last weekend, Josef Newgarden made the IndyCar Series title fight interesting. Well, a bit. The Team Penske driver’s double victories at Iowa Speedway, a track he truly excels at, puts him 80 points off dominator Alex Palou. So, should Chip Ganassi Racing’s Spanish ace be worried?
Not really. Those 80 points are effectively a win and a sixth-placed finish, so Newgarden is going to have to keep up his hot form from here on in. But his Iowa brace – he’s now up to six and in some rarified air of IndyCar greats with half a dozen victories or more at one track – gives him an outside chance.
