IndyCar: Newgarden outduels Ericsson to win Indy 500

Josef Newgarden passed Marcus Ericsson during a one-lap shootout to win the 107th Indy 500, which featured multiple crashes and three red flags for a total of 37 minutes after

Ericsson drafted by Newgarden on the prior restart, and Newgarden returned the favor on the final restart to win yet another Indy 500 for team owner Roger Penske.

Newgarden drove onto the pit lane entrance coming for the checkered flag to break the draft. Using that lane was not questioned because the series decided to not police it.

Santino Ferrucci was third for AJ Foyt Racing, while Alex Palou came home 4th after having a pitlane incident when Rinus Veekay ran into Palou on Lap 102.

Alexander Rossi rounded out the top-5 for Arrow McLaren Racing.

Marcus Ericsson

The defending Indy 500 winner, a crushed spirited Swede, talked with the media after the race about his day and what he felt about the final restart.

“I’m very happy with my performance, with our performance. I think we did an awesome race. I had a great car, great strategy, pit stops. Tough restarts and good restarts. Had a lot of fun out there.’

“I think it was a tough way to end the race. I don’t really agree with how we did that. I don’t think that was a fair way to end the race. But I’m proud of our effort.”

” I think it wasn’t enough laps to go to do what we did. I don’t think it’s safe to go out of the pits on cold tires for a restart when half the field is sort of still trying to get out on track when we go green.”

“I don’t think it’s a fair way to end the race. I don’t think it’s a right way to end the race. So I can’t agree with that.”

“No, it is what it is. I just have to deal with it. I think I did everything I could. I did an awesome last restart. I caught Josef by surprise and kept the lead into 1, but it wasn’t enough, so for sure it’s hard to swallow.”

Santino Ferrucci

Another disappointed driver was Santino Ferrrucci, driver of the AJ Foyt No 14 Home for Our Troops, led eleven laps today and drove his best to try and win this race. The American wanted to win for his team owner, AJ Foyt, because AJ lost his wife of 68 years in April.

“Yeah, today was just emotional, bittersweet. It was emotional getting in the car, which was kind of strange because you feel like there’s a lot of people that really want this, the team really wants this.”

“We worked so hard to be where we were. We ran out front all day long. It’s definitely one of the more difficult races that I’ve probably ever run, and just we also knew that we
had a really good car.”

“We got really close with Felix when he was wrecking so very thankful we were able to avoid that. And then yeah, coming to the end, I think on the second to final restart, me
and Marcus battling it into 1, and obviously it going red when it did, it’s part of this place, it’s part of racing, it’s part of the speedway.”

“Just bummed because I think — I’m sure Marcus thinks the same thing I do. We definitely, all three of us could have won it at any point in time. Yeah, it’s bittersweet.”

Race Results

Pos	No	Name	Laps	Behind	Gap	Led	ST	Engine	Points	Team
1	2	Josef Newgarden	200	0.000s	0.000s	5	17	Chevy	182	Team Penske
2	8	Marcus Ericsson	200	0.0974	0.0974	30	10	Honda	199	Chip Ganassi Racing
3	14	Santino Ferrucci	200	0.5273	0.4299	11	4	Chevy	96	AJ Foyt Enterprises
4	10	Alex Palou	200	0.7638	0.2365	36	1	Honda	219	Chip Ganassi Racing
5	7	Alexander Rossi	200	0.9934	0.2296	4	7	Chevy	145	Arrow McLaren
6	9	Scott Dixon	200	1.4316	0.4382	0	6	Honda	162	Chip Ganassi Racing
7	11	Takuma Sato	200	1.5770	0.1454	2	8	Honda	37	Chip Ganassi Racing
8	20	Conor Daly	200	1.8855	0.3085	0	16	Chevy	73	Ed Carpenter Racing
9	26	Colton Herta	200	2.2248	0.3393	1	21	Honda	130	Andretti Autosport w/Curb-Agajanian
10	21	Rinus VeeKay	200	3.2648	1.0400	24	2	Chevy	96	Ed Carpenter Racing
11	23	Ryan Hunter-Reay	200	3.4223	0.1575	8	18	Chevy	20	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing
12	77	Callum Ilott	200	4.0470	0.6247	5	27	Chevy	111	Juncos Hollinger Racing
13	29	Devlin DeFrancesco	200	4.7432	0.6962	0	25	Honda	63	Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport
14	3	Scott McLaughlin	200	5.0045	0.2613	0	14	Chevy	149	Team Penske
15	06	Helio Castroneves	200	5.4631	0.4586	1	20	Honda	69	Meyer Shank Racing
16	66	Tony Kanaan	200	5.7158	0.2527	0	9	Chevy	18	Arrow McLaren
17	98	Marco Andretti	200	8.9800	3.2642	0	24	Honda	13	Andretti
18	30	Jack Harvey	199	1 LAPS	40.6456	0	32	Honda	65	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
19	45	Christian Lundgaard	198	In Pit	1 LAPS	0	30	Honda	122	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
20	33	Ed Carpenter	197	Contact	74.6594	0	13	Chevy	27	Ed Carpenter Racing
21	55	Benjamin Pedersen	196	Contact	4.0550	0	11	Chevy	51	AJ Foyt Enterprises
22	24	Graham Rahal	195	1 LAPS	0.4936	0	33	Chevy	94	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing
23	12	Will Power	195	5 LAPS	377.3991	1	12	Chevy	131	Team Penske
24	5	Pato O’Ward	192	Contact	0.0441	39	5	Chevy	185	Arrow McLaren
25	60	Simon Pagenaud	192	Contact	0.0408	0	22	Honda	55	Meyer Shank Racing
26	78	Agustin Canapino	192	Contact	0.2026	0	26	Chevy	61	Juncos Holling Racing
27	6	Felix Rosenqvist	183	Contact	0.5199	33	3	Chevy	113	Arrow McLaren
28	27	Kyle Kirkwood	183	Contact	0.5679	0	15	Honda	113	Andretti Autosport
29	18	David Malukas	160	Contact	5 LAPS	0	23	Honda	84	Dale Coyne Racing with HMD
30	28	Romain Grosjean	149	Contact	0.7374	0	19	Honda	139	Andretti Autosport
31	51	Sting Ray Robb	90	Contact	1.1828	0	31	Honda	47	Dale Coyne Racing w/RWR
32	50	RC Enerson	75	Mechanical	8 LAPS	0	28	Chevy	5	Abel Motorsports
33	44	Katherine Legge	41	Contact	23 LAPS	0	29	Honda	5	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing

Race Statistics
Winner’s average speed: 168.193 mph
Time of Race: 2:58:21.9611
Margin of victory: 0.0974 of a second
Cautions: 5 for 27 laps
Lead changes: 52 among 14 drivers

Lap Leaders:
Palou, Alex 1 – 2
VeeKay, Rinus 3
Palou, Alex 4 – 9
VeeKay, Rinus 10 – 14
Palou, Alex 15 – 22
VeeKay, Rinus 23 – 27
Palou, Alex 28 – 29
VeeKay, Rinus 30 – 31
Rosenqvist, Felix 32
Rossi, Alexander 33 – 34
Palou, Alex 35 – 39
VeeKay, Rinus 40 – 47
Palou, Alex 48 – 60
VeeKay, Rinus 61 – 63
Rosenqvist, Felix 64 – 65
O’Ward, Pato 66
Power, Will 67
Herta, Colton 68
Rosenqvist, Felix 69
O’Ward, Pato 70 – 78
Rosenqvist, Felix 79 – 81
O’Ward, Pato 82 – 89
Rosenqvist, Felix 90 – 94
Ilott, Callum 95 – 99
Rosenqvist, Felix 100 – 101
O’Ward, Pato 102
Rosenqvist, Felix 103 – 107
O’Ward, Pato 108 – 109
Rosenqvist, Felix 110 – 113
O’Ward, Pato 114 – 115
Rosenqvist, Felix 116 – 119
O’Ward, Pato 120 – 122
Rosenqvist, Felix 123 – 124
O’Ward, Pato 125 – 128
Rosenqvist, Felix 129 – 131
Ferrucci, Santino 132
Ericsson, Marcus 133 – 134
Castroneves, Helio 135
Rosenqvist, Felix 136
Ericsson, Marcus 137 – 156
Newgarden, Josef 157
Ericsson, Marcus 158
Ferrucci, Santino 159 – 168
Ericsson, Marcus 169 – 170
Rossi, Alexander 171 – 172
Sato, Takuma 173 – 174
O’Ward, Pato 175 – 179
Hunter-Reay, Ryan 180 – 187
O’Ward, Pato 188 – 191
Ericsson, Marcus 192
Newgarden, Josef 193 – 195
Ericsson, Marcus 196 – 199
Newgarden, Josef 200

NTT INDYCAR SERIES Point Standings: Palou 219, Ericsson 199, O’Ward 185, Newgarden 182, Dixon 162, McLaughlin 149, Rossi 145, Grosjean 139, Power 131, Herta 130, Lundgaard 122, Kirkwood 113, Rosenqvist 113, Ilott 111, Ferrucci 96, VeeKay 96, Rahal 94, Malukas 84, Armstrong 77, Daly 73, Castroneves 69, Harvey 65, DeFrancesco 63, Canapino 61, Pagenaud 55, Pedersen 51, Robb 47, Sato 37, Carpenter 27, Hunter-Reay 20, Kanaan 18, Andretti 13, Enerson 5, Legge 5