The 20-year-old former Indy Lights competitor from Chicago will make his inaugural presence in the IndyCar circuit with Dale Coyne Racing and HMD Motorsports in 2022.
Colton Herta, starting deep in the field in 14th after being the fastest in both practice sessions took over the lead on Lap 34 after Helio Castroneves made his scheduled stop and held off Newgarden to win at home for the first time in his career.
Despite going airborne on Lap 4 and receiving an avoidable contact penalty, Chip Ganassi Racing's Marcus Ericsson fought and clawed his way back to score his second victory of the 2021 NTT IndyCar Series season at the first-ever Music City Grand Prix in Nashville.
"I feel like we had a really good car. We just needed to file-in there at the start. We partially did that but yeah. Wudda, shudda, cudda I guess for Hitachi and Chevrolet. But we’ll come back. We’ve just got to bounce back at the next one.”