Newgarden blitzes field to win at Iowa

Josef Newgarden opened his season winning account with a commanding win in the Iowa Corn 300.

Newgarden dominated the 300-lap affair to post a slashing 4.2s win and move up from fifth to second in the points standings.

The Ed Carpenter Racing ace led home a Chevrolet sweep of the top four places in claiming his third career victory after leading 282 laps.

Newgarden bravely returned to the fold, finishing eighth at the previous race at Road America following his Texas crash when he suffered shoulder and hand fractures.

“They (the team) gave me an amazing car and made it easy on me,” Newgarden said.

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“I could go anywhere with the thing so it made it easier with everything I was dealing with. I’m just so happy for Fuzzy’s Vodka.”

Australia’s Team Penske star Will Power went on a late race blitz with some classic passing moves to charge into second place and continue his mid-season push.

Kiwi Scott Dixon (Chip Ganassi Racing) was third ahead of series leader Simon Pagenaud (Team Penske) who was in the mix throughout.

Mikhail Aleshin was fifth in his Schmidt Peterson Motorsports Honda with Indy 500 winner Alex Rossi (Andretti-Herta) a lap down in sixth after starting 17th.

Tony Kanaan (Chip Ganassi) was seventh ahead of KV Racing’s Sebastien Bourdais while James Hinchcliffe (Schmidt-Peterson) made it into the top 10 after starting last.

Another Chip Ganassi driver, Charlie Kimball chipped away to complete the top 10.

With just over 50 laps remaining Max Chilton’s spin in Turn 2 brought out the yellow flag with Newgarden holding the lead from Dixon and Pagenaud.

Ryan Hunter-Reay was the first retirement at one-third race distance with a dramatic oil fire in his Andretti Autosports Honda.

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See below for full results

Pos	SP	Car	Driver	C/A/E/T	Lap	Laps Down	Time Down	Pit Stops	Elapsed Time	Avg Speed	Pts	Running/Reason Out
1	2	21	Newgarden, Josef	D/C/C/F	300	0	–.—-	4	01:52:16.3613	143.330	53	Running
2	8	12	Power, Will	D/C/C/F	300	0	4.2828	4	01:52:20.6441	143.239	40	Running
3	10	9	Dixon, Scott	D/C/C/F	300	0	5.5085	4	01:52:21.8698	143.212	36	Running
4	1	22	Pagenaud, Simon	D/C/C/F	300	0	6.1827	4	01:52:22.5440	143.198	34	Running
5	9	7	Aleshin, Mikhail	D/H/H/F	300	0	7.0386	4	01:52:23.3999	143.180	30	Running
6	17	98	Rossi, Alexander (R)	D/H/H/F	299	1	–	4	01:52:17.7462	142.822	29	Running
7	6	10	Kanaan, Tony	D/C/C/F	299	1	–	4	01:52:24.1862	142.686	26	Running
8	16	11	Bourdais, Sebastien	D/C/C/F	299	1	–	5	01:52:25.9198	142.649	24	Running
9	22	5	Hinchcliffe, James	D/H/H/F	299	1	–	4	01:52:31.5162	142.531	22	Running
10	5	83	Kimball, Charlie	D/C/C/F	299	1	–	4	01:52:31.8056	142.525	20	Running
11	13	14	Sato, Takuma	D/H/H/F	298	2	–	4	01:52:18.9344	142.320	19	Running
12	15	26	Munoz, Carlos	D/H/H/F	298	2	–	5	01:52:19.8414	142.301	18	Running
13	3	3	Castroneves, Helio	D/C/C/F	298	2	–	4	01:52:27.6624	142.136	17	Running
14	19	27	Andretti, Marco	D/H/H/F	298	2	–	4	01:52:29.7522	142.092	16	Running
15	14	41	Hawksworth, Jack	D/H/H/F	298	2	–	4	01:52:30.9600	142.066	15	Running
16	12	15	Rahal, Graham	D/H/H/F	297	3	–	4	01:52:17.2826	141.877	14	Running
17	18	19	Chaves, Gabby	D/H/H/F	293	7	–	5	01:52:25.5470	139.795	13	Running
18	7	20	Carpenter, Ed	D/C/C/F	284	16	–	4	01:52:34.3399	135.324	12	Running
19	4	8	Chilton, Max (R)	D/C/C/F	274	26	–	4	01:52:34.8394	130.550	12	Running
20	11	2	Montoya, Juan Pablo	D/C/C/F	179	121	–	2	01:10:55.9281	135.363	10	Mechanical
21	21	18	Daly, Conor (R)	D/H/H/F	141	159	–	3	00:55:55.8203	135.226	9	Mechanical
22	20	28	Hunter-Reay, Ryan	D/H/H/F	105	195	–	1	00:34:22.7495	163.826	8	Mechanical

 

1 Simon Pagenaud 409 2 Josef Newgarden 336 3 Will Power 334 4 Scott Dixon 321 5 Helio Castroneves 318 6 Tony Kanaan 306 7 Alexander Rossi 286 8 Carlos Munoz 280 9 Graham Rahal 275 10 Charlie Kimball 275 11 Juan Pablo Montoya 269 12 Ryan Hunter-Reay 264 13 James Hinchcliffe 264 14 Sebastien Bourdais 246 15 Takuma Sato 205 16 Marco Andretti 200 17 Mikhail Aleshin 199 18 Conor Daly 195 19 Max Chilton 161 20 Jack Hawksworth 144 21 Gabby Chaves 105 22 Spencer Pigot 97 23 J.R. Hildebrand 84 24 Oriol Servia 72 25 Townsend Bell 55 26 Luca Filippi 45 27 Ed Carpenter 45 28 Matthew Brabham 37 29 Alex Tagliani 35 30 Pippa Mann 33 31 Sage Karam 22 32 Bryan Clauson 21 33 Stefan Wilson 14 34 Buddy Lazier 12