Newgarden gives Penske a new bloom

INDYCAR SERIES

MID-OHIO (USA)

4 JULY

ROUND 8/14

Team Penske’s extraordinarily extended wait for an IndyCar victory in 2021 is over. The day after the 50th anniversary of the squad’s first win (with Mark Donohue at Pocono in 1971), Josef Newgarden delivered in convincing fashion at Mid-Ohio, and catapulted his way back into the championship hunt.

It was only right and proper that it was Newgarden who was rewarded, for he has now led 172 of the last 205 racing laps. In Detroit’s second race he was tripped up by a strategy that should have