Josef Newgarden admits that winning the 2017 Verizon IndyCar Series title required him to learn and adapt faster than he’d ever had to at any point in his career. The 26-year-old arrived at Penske at the start of the season after several years with Sarah Fisher Hartman and Ed Carpenter Racing, and said that his championship success was due in part to realizing that he had to rise to the occasion. “It's been my biggest year of change,” he said. “It's been my biggest opportunity. I've had so much to live up to, in that you have champions around you, you have guys pushing you every week that are making you get the most out of yourself, and you have to match them. So it's given me the...
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