Although the two were tangled in a tussle for the top spot over the final of laps, O'Ward held off making multiple runs for the lead until jumping to the outside of Newgarden’s No. 2 Team Penske Chevrolet heading to the white flag and snatching the top spot entering Turn 1.
However, there wasn’t enough in O’Ward’s No. 5 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet to fend off the return challenge of Newgarden, who delivered his own monstrous outside pass to reclaim the lead in Turn 3 en route to claiming his second consecutive win in “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.”
