Team Penske-Chevrolet’s Josef Newgarden admits he had no idea if his “risky” pass on Robert Wickens to win the 2018 IndyCar race at Phoenix’s ISM Raceway was going to work out. Newgarden and teammate Will Power had moved to the front of the field after Simon Pagenaud, Alexander Rossi and polesitter Sebastien Bourdais all lost out in the first pitstops with errors.   The Penske duo were later undercut by the Schmidt Peterson Motorsports pairing of James Hinchcliffe and Wickens, as well as Ed Jones of Ganassi and Ryan Hunter-Reay of Andretti Autosport, but an early next stop for Newgarden allowed him to undercut back to the lead. Then a late full-course yellow prompted him to pit...
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