At Road America, Newgarden delivered his third win from the opening eight races of the season, and moved up to third in the championship, 32 points away from leader Marcus Ericsson of Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda. No other driver has scored more than one victory.
But the 2017 and ’19 title winner warned that to nail a third championship will require a less uneven campaign over the season’s second half. Aside from his three wins and a fourth place, Newgarden’s other four finishes have seen him outside the top 10, with a particularly disastrous 25th following a crash in which he was largely blameless at the Grand Prix of Indianapolis.
