Last year, Simon Pagenaud had the pace to prove worthy of a Team Penske seat, but didn’t have the results. Now he’s at the top of his game and the top of the championship table. Gil de Ferran told David Malsher why. Only a fool would have dismissed Simon Pagenaud’s chances of long-term success on the strength of his first season with Team Penske. Six times last year he started from the front row of the grid, and one of those was a pole position, so he was clearly fast enough. He also had his own short IndyCar heritage to back up the arguments of his believers. In 2012, Pagenaud finished fifth in the championship with Schmidt Peterson Motorsport in his and the team’s first full...
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