. josefnewgarden scores his third TXMotorSpeedway triumph after epic battle with O'Ward and Palou
Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden scored his third Texas win under caution after an epic battle with Pato O’Ward and Alex Palou, while Romain Grosjean’s strong drive ended in the wall on the penultimate lap.Polesitter Felix Rosenqvist didn’t last a lap in the front, the Arrow McLaren losing out to Scott Dixon’s Ganassi entry at the end of the first lap, and then Penske’s Josef Newgarden, and fellow McLaren drivers Pato O’Ward and Alexander Rossi also demoting him to fifth.
In the pitstops under caution, Kyle Kirkwood’s Andretti Autosport car came into his pitbox just as the driver he replaced at AA, Rossi, was sent out of his pitbox. Kirkwood swooped in from the outside ‘fast lane’ and his left rear made contact with Rossi’s right front, whose car needed a new toelink. Race control deemed Rossi’s team at fault for an unsafe release, so he had to take a drive-through penalty when his suspension was fixed.
Newgarden’s lead over O’Ward was out to 1.9sec before the leader pitted, leaving the Arrow McLaren with a 4.5sec lead over Grosjean, Dixon and Palou. Grosjean stopped next time by, while O’Ward and Dixon went a lap longer. On Lap 160, O’Ward and Newgarden were the only drivers on the lead lap as O’Ward whipped past Grosjean.
Newgarden made a brilliant restart to get around lapped cars and move up on O’Ward to run side-by-side, but Palou took advantage of their battle to get past both of them down the back straight. Newgarden took the lead briefly but Palou retaliated. As they and O’Ward battled for the lead – which neither of them particularly wanted as the leader burns more fuel – surged through to lead for four laps.
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