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Delight to despair for McLaughlin, Power in Iowa

What a difference a day makes in the IndyCar Series. Less than 24 hours after finishing second, third, and fourth with Josef Newgarden, Will Power, and Scott McLaughlin at Iowa Speedway, Team Penske’s trio were left scratching their heads.

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Delight to despair for McLaughlin, Power in Iowa
Scott McLaughlin wrecked out on the first lap of the second IndyCar race at Iowa Speedway.

McLaughlin’s race lasted less than a lap after Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing driver Devlin DeFrancesco spun and took the #3 Chevy with him.

The Kiwi has foreshadowed a repeat of his Sunday efforts, in which he surged from 27th to fourth after crashing out of qualifying.

However, it was all over in less than a minute.

“It sucks,” said McLaughlin.

“I was really excited today. The Gallagher Chevy was going to be just as good. I just got caught up in someone else’s accident.

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“There’s only so much you can do to avoid. We nearly got him and then… I would have just got through and probably would have got through unscathed.

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“Unfortunately, it is what it is. There were a couple of negatives this weekend but we’ll take the positive of yesterday and charge on to Toronto.”

Power, meanwhile, suffered an engine failure on Lap 21 of the 275-lapper.

“Same as Mid-Ohio it felt like. Some sort of engine failure,” said Power.

“We improved upon yesterday. It felt like we were going to have a good race. Obviously, you never know what can happen. Obviously something just happened.

“Man, pity. We keep giving away days when we have a car to win. Just have those seasons, I guess. Not much we can do.”

Newgarden, meanwhile, led 72 laps of the race but wound up falling foul of badly timed mid-race caution and a slow pit stop.

The #2 Chevy dominated Sunday’s race before being pipped by McLaren’s Pato O’Ward. On Monday, Alex Palou prevailed.

“We’ve just got to keep doing what we are doing,” said Newgarden, who finished 10th after being a lap down.

“Team Penske is working incredibly hard, the whole group. Yesterday was a good day for everybody. You could see the spirits lift. They don’t need to change what they’re doing.

“They’re doing a great job, they brought a fast car here today.”

Palou started from pole position and led 194 laps, beating Chip Ganassi Racing teammate Scott Dixon and Meyer Shank Racing’s Marcus Armstrong.

David Malukas was fourth for AJ Foyt Racing ahead of McLaren’s O’Ward.

It was Palou’s seventh win of the season. The all-time record for wins in a season is 10 held by A.J. Foyt (1964) and Al Unser (1970).

The race featured several incidents. Sting Ray Robb crashed his Juncos Hollinger Racing Chevy on lap 50.

Newgarden took the lead on Lap 66 and held that position until the very moment he pitted under green when Andretti Global’s Marcus Ericsson crashed on Lap 131.

Newgarden dropped to the back of the lead lap and fought from 13th to 10th by Lap 176 when Prema Racing’s Callum Ilott crashed out.

What followed was a blistering run from Newgarden, who surged to the lead with 36 laps to go.

However, it was all undone when he suffered an agonisingly slow final pit stop and dropped to 10th.

Palou inherited the lead again and was unstoppable from there. He survived a late caution for Andretti Global’s Colton Herta crash.

Results: IndyCar Series Farm To Finish 275 Powered by Sukup, Iowa Speedway

Pos Num Driver Team Engine Laps/Diff Gap
1 10 Alex Palou Chip Ganassi Racing Honda LAP 275
2 9 Scott Dixon Chip Ganassi Racing Honda 0.5280 0.5280
3 66 Marcus Armstrong Meyer Shank Racing Honda 2.7436 2.2156
4 4 David Malukas AJ Foyt Enterprises Chevy 4.0007 1.2571
5 5 Pato O’Ward Arrow McLaren Chevy 4.825 0.8243
6 7 Christian Lundgaard Arrow McLaren Chevy 6.4378 1.6128
7 60 Felix Rosenqvist Meyer Shank Racing Honda 6.9021 0.4643
8 21 Christian Rasmussen Ed Carpenter Racing Chevy 7.8354 0.9333
9 83 Robert Shwartzman Prema Racing Chevy 9.0457 1.2103
10 2 Josef Newgarden Team Penske Chevy 10.1300 1.0843
11 51 Jacob Abel Dale Coyne Racing Honda 11.8122 1.6822
12 18 Rinus Veekay Dale Coyne Racing Honda 11.8317 0.0195
13 8 Kyffin Simpson Chip Ganassi Racing Honda 13.4066 1.5749
14 45 Louis Foster Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Honda 14.5475 1.1409
15 14 Santino Ferrucci AJ Foyt Enterprises Chevy 1 lap 16.7609
16 76 Conor Daly Juncos Hollinger Racing Chevy 1 lap 0.4942
17 20 Alexander Rossi Ed Carpenter Racing Chevy 1 lap 2.3018
18 27 Kyle Kirkwood Andretti Global Honda 1 lap 0.4964
19 15 Graham Rahal Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Honda 3 laps 1 lap
20 26 Colton Herta Andretti Global w/Curb‑Agajanian Honda Contact 3.6984
21 90 Callum Ilott Prema Racing Chevy Contact 8.1261
22 28 Marcus Ericsson Andretti Global Honda Contact 0.5901
23 77 Sting Ray Robb Juncos Hollinger Racing Chevy Contact 4.337
24 12 Will Power Team Penske Chevy Mechanical 27 laps
25 30 Devlin DeFrancesco Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Honda Contact
26 3 Scott McLaughlin Team Penske Chevy Contact
DNS 6 Nolan Siegel Arrow McLaren Chevy


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