Newgarden Harvests Win in Iowa

Photo By: Shawn Gritzmacher 
After an Injury at Texas a few weeks ago many believed Josef Newgarden would be out for at least two races. In his second race after the Injury Josef went to victory lane, with a dominating performance also. Newgarden led a record 282 laps en route to his first oval win by 4.2828 seconds over Will Power. Scott Dixon, Simon Pagenaud, Mikhail Aleshin rounded out the Top-5. The win placed Newgarden into the second position in the 2016 Verizon IndyCar Series standings, 73 points behind Team Penske’s Simon Pagenaud, who finished the race in fourth. The 282 laps led is an all-time Indycar record, breaking the previous mark set by Ryan Hunter-Reay when he led all 250 laps at The Milwaukee Mile in 2004.

Results From Iowa

  1. Josef Newgarden
  2. Will Power
  3. Scott Dixon
  4. Simon Pagenaud
  5. Mikhail Aleshin
  6. Alexander Rossi (R)
  7. Tony Kanaan
  8. Sebastien Bourdais
  9. James Hinchcliffe
  10. Charlie Kimball
  11. Takuma Sato
  12. Carlos Munoz
  13. Helio Castroneves
  14. Marco Andretti
  15. Jack Hawksworth
  16. Graham Rahal
  17. Gabby Chaves
  18. Ed Carpenter
  19. Max Chilton (R)
  20. Juan Pablo Montoya
  21. Conor Daly (R)
  22. Ryan Hunter-Reay

Next Race 

Joined by the NASCAR Pinty's Series, The Verizon IndyCar Series will head north of the border for the Honda Indy of Toronto on the Streets in Toronto. Josef Newgarden is the defending winner of this race and with Momentum coming off of Iowa and Road America, Newgarden could be the first driver to push the issue on Simon Pagenaud. Simon will certainly have some competition from not just Newgarden but also from Will Power and Scott Dixon. Honda Indy will certainly decide who will continue on and could eliminate some contenders. 

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