IndyCar – Newgarden crushes Iowa Corn 300

282 laps led out of 300 for a first success on an oval in his career. Josef Newgarden's domination of the Iowa Corn 300 does not suffer from any dispute. And the story is all the more beautiful for the Ed Carpenter Racing driver as he is returning from a serious accident during the Texas round, a crash which left him with a broken collarbone and hand.

For his third success in IndyCar, Newgarden is ahead of three big guns in the discipline with Will Power (Team Penske – Chevrolet) ahead of Scott Dixon (Chip Ganassi Racing – Chevrolet) and the Frenchman simon pagenaud (Team Penske – Chevrolet), who was unable to contain the winner of the day from the first seconds who took the opportunity to move up to second position in the championship.

Overtaken on the track by Dixon before the final burst of stops, then Power in the last ten laps, Pagenaud nevertheless remains a solid leader of the championship at the end of an event which did not smile on Ryan Hunter-Reay (Andretti Autosport – Honda) or Juan-Pablo Montoya (Team Penske – Chevrolet), victim of mechanical problems, while Max Chilton (Chip Ganassi Racing – Chevrolet) made a mistake, causing one of the three race interruptions.

Mikhail Aleshin (SPM) places the best car powered by Honda in fifth position ahead of Indianapolis 500 winner Alexander Red (Andretti-Herta-Honda). Sebastian Bourdais (KVSH Racing – Chevrolet) finished 8nd.

Race results

Find the report of the Iowa Corn 300 event, in issue 2071 of AUTOhebdo, available from 22 p.m. this evening in digital version, and from this Wednesday on newsstands.