Newgarden: No smoking gun to explain Penske’s Indy 500 struggles

Penske has 18 wins in the Memorial Day Weekend classic, but last year the four-car team lined up 17^th, 21^st, 26^th and 32^nd  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.