Dixon leaves Portland tied with Newgarden but Power finished ahead of both and now sits 20-points ahead going into the season finale on Sunday at WeatherTech Raceway at Laguna Seca. PORTLAND, OR (Pittsburgh Racing Now) – PNC Bank Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon is in the fight for the NTT INDYCAR SERIES Championship after a third place finish in Sunday’s Grand Prix of Portland.ĭixon entered the race in third-place in the Championship fight, 14-points behind Team Penske’s Will Power and 11-points behind Power’s teammate Josef Newgarden. It’s hard to get a read because the car changes so much over a run.” You get one lap on tires, and they’re gone. Power leads Newgarden and Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon by 20-points heading into Sunday’s season finale. But I think very productive in a lot of ways. It’s not a lot of running, and you’re trying to make the most use of just a couple runs, and I felt like we did that, so I was happy about that.”Ĭhampionship-leader Will Power was 7th quickest, 1:11:9858 (111.922) in the No. “There was a lot of people going off, there was a lot of dirt on the track, so it was quite difficult to put it together. “Yeah, just a tricky session,” noted Newgarden. 2 Hitachi Chevy turned a fast lap of 1 minute, 11.4103 seconds (112.824 mph) around the 11-turn, 2.238-mile road course circuit with Andretti Autosport’s Colton Herta second-quickest at 1:11:8266 (112.170) in the No. MONTEREY, CA (Pittsburgh Racing Now) – Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden is starting INDYCAR Championship weekend off on the right pedal by leading the first NTT INDYCAR SERIES practice session on Friday. Newgarden leads Pagenaud by 38-points going into the next weekend’s Grand Prix of Portland. Points-leader Josef Newgarden finished seventh but his closest pursuer, Alexander Rossi, finished 13 th allowing fifth-place finisher Simon Pagenaud to leapfrog Rossi in the Championship standings. “We played the strategy right, we got a little bit of luck on our side – finally – and once we got to the front, we showed the that we belong there.” “We knew we had a strong car,” said Kanaan. “Even just another straightaway, I maybe could have gotten Takuma,” said Carpenter, who started 17th. “We were really good on the long runs. We kept our heads down and never gave up.”ĪJ Foyt Racing’s Tony Kanaan, who started 20 th, rounded out the podium with a third-place finish. Some people say they never seen do that kind of statement.”Ĭarpenter rebounded from a less than stellar qualifying effort to needing a couple of hundred feet to win. So proud to be a part of Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing. “It is just unbelievable support from the team,” said Sato. Sato was glad his team had his back and he paid them back with a victory. The RLL team stood behind the veteran driver in the week between Pocono and Gateway, going as far as issuing a statement of support after all of the backlash. The team got logging system, onboard footage, that shows very clear evidence I wasn’t move. It looked like I turned into Alex, which wasn’t true. A lot of people judged from only TV, one angle. Last week, it was very difficult to judge. Sato called the victory the most satisfying win of his career, next to the 2017 Indianapolis 500 win. Sato started fifth on the grid and on the first lap in turn 1 had contact with another car and fell to last place but never gave up and rallied to a 0.0399-second victory over owner/driver Ed Carpenter. Sato won Saturday night’s Bommarito Automotive Group 500 at World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway, one week after fellow Ind圜ar drivers, fan and media blamed Sato for a multi-car crash on lap one at Pocono Raceway. MADISON, IL (Pittsburgh Racing Now) – Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing’s Takuma Sato went from zero to hero in less than a week on the NTT Ind圜ar Series circuit.
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