Simon Pagenaud hadn't led a lap all season, hadn't won a race since last July in Toronto and had to start last on Friday night in the doubleheader opener at Iowa Speedway. But the 2019 Indianapolis 500 champion made up for all those negative statistics with one of the best drives of his career. The 36-year-old Frenchman parlayed good pace, great fuel saving and a timely caution flags to score the most improbable triumph of his 15 trips to victory lane by holding off Scott Dixon. Pagenaud, who joined Mike Mosley, Tom Sneva, Sebastien Bourdais and Dixon in going last-to-first, stretched the final 103 laps on one tank of fuel in his Penske Chevrolet and snapped Chip Ganassi's unbeaten 2020...
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