Josef Newgarden won an accident-filled Race #1 of the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix, which was condensed into a 75-minute timed race after severe weather delayed the start for over an hour. Newgarden held off pole sitter Alexander Rossi over a final green-flag run of 12-and-a-half minutes to take his second victory of the season (St. Petersburg). Takuma Sato finished third, matching his result from last week’s Indianapolis 500. “How about that call from Tim?,” Newgarden told NBC Sports. “It was the perfect call to get us the position that we needed.” The call Newgarden referred to was one made by Tim Cindric, his race strategist, to pit with 44 minutes remaining in the race – just before a yellow flag came out. With the race leaders yet to pit, Newgarden took the lead during the yellow-flag cycle of stops. It was later reported that Newgarden had not received a full fuel load during his stop, but with help from multiple late-race cautions, Newgarden had enough fuel to make it to the end. “We really wanted this one,” Newgarden said. “I can’t tell you how hard we worked in the off-season. This whole team made sure our street course cars were… Read full this story
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