Newgarden: Rossi was very strong, we were a little better

Team Penske-Chevrolet’s #2 PPG-backed driver made his first stop on the same lap as polesitter and first-stint leader Rossi, and emerged from pitlane ahead of the Andretti Autosport-Honda, the latter’s cause hindered by having to pause on leaving his pitbox to allow another Penske driver, Scott McLaughlin, to pit just ahead of him.
Thereafter he pulled away from the erstwhile leader, until …Keep reading