The two-time IndyCar champion from Hendersonville, Tennessee, benefitted through an executed pit strategy before prevailing over late challenges from Romain Grosjean and Alex Palou to notch his first elusive victory at the Streets of Long Beach.
The finish to Sunday's NTT IndyCar XPEL 375 proved to be spectacular finish to a spectacular race, which has proven to be something of a rarity in recent memory at Texas Motor Speedway.
The two-time IndyCar Series champion executed a bold final lap pass over teammate Scott McLaughlin to record the 600th overall motorsports victory for Team Penske at the Lone Star state.
Josef Newgarden and the No. 2 Penske team navigated through early chaos at World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway to score his second win of the 2021 NTT IndyCar Season.
Starting from the pole and leading all but eight laps, Josef Newgarden became the winningest American in the NTT IndyCar Series on a special holiday weekend at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course as he claimed his first win of the season.
Team Penske's Josef Newgarden outperformed Colton Herta by 0.0031 of a second to win his third pole of the 2021 NTT IndyCar Series season after laying down a lap of 1:06.6739.
Josef Newgarden would claim victory for Team Penske to conclude the 2020 IndyCar season. Scott Dixon finished on the podium with a third-place run to claim his sixth IndyCar championship.
