After a thrilling end to Saturday's Verizon IndyCar Series race at Phoenix, podium finishers Robert Wickens and Alexander Rossi quashed any notion of lingering on-track issues from the season-opening crash that denied Wickens an improbable win at St. Petersburg. Under the ISM Raceway lights, Wickens inherited the race lead under caution when Team Penske brought Josef Newgarden in to pit after Ed Jones' crash on lap 229; Schmidt Peterson Motorsports teammate James Hinchcliffe and Rossi also stayed out. Newgarden came out of the pits fourth, caught Rossi shortly after the restart and set his sights on the SPM duo. For a driver in his first IndyCar oval race, Wickens deftly held off Newgarden...
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