Instead, the cars were pulled down pit road and brought to a stop to set up a one-lap shootout.Įricsson said later he disagreed with the decision, calling it unsafe to take green and white flags simultaneously on the first lap out of the pits. Ericsson was leading the race and thought he had won when the yellow flag was flying with two laps to go. But it was the last one that spurred controversy. The drama began with a red flag a few laps later, the first of three that Ind圜ar threw before the finish.
He had a quiet race, too, steering clear of trouble over a mostly forgettable first 180 laps. “You know, everybody that doesn’t win the race, I believe, ends up with a broken heart, or at least I have left every year just shattered, and you got to build yourself back up really quickly and keep going. It just gets harder and harder to leave here with a broken heart,” Newgarden told The Associated Press. “Each year gets tougher when you run it 12 years in a row. William Behrends, the sculptor who will craft Newgarden’s face on the Borg-Warner Trophy, took reference images, and Newgarden later sat in a chair and fiddled with the Indy 500 ring on his finger.
He chatted with team owner Roger Penske, who got his 19th victory but first since purchasing the track, and posed for countless photos on the yard of bricks.
He had passed Marcus Ericsson in a last-lap sprint to the finish a day earlier, and was back at the mostly empty speedway for all the spoils. On Monday, Newgarden showed up wearing a smile. INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - In the slow buildup to the Indianapolis 500, Josef Newgarden talked openly about having to put on a brave face when he would arrive at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and how so many failures in the race that mattered most had weighed on him.
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