– Simon Pagenaud looks to extend his championship lead tomorrow after taking pole at the 7/8-mile Iowa Speedway on Saturday. His two-lap average of 185.855 was nearly 0.2mph quicker than his nearest competitor, Josef Newgarden. In doing so, he earned the 500th career pole for Team Penske, at a track where Andretti Autosport has won the past six races.Qualifying was a relatively calm affair at a track drivers colloquially call "The Bullring." Earlier in the day, Andretti team-mates Ryan Hunter-Reay and Marco Andretti both spun coming out of Turn 4, their cars unsettled by asphalt patches placed on the low line over the winter.Andretti avoided the wall, but Hunter-Reay was...
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