IndyCar Gateway results, points: Josef Newgarden wins

IndyCar Gateway results, points: Josef Newgarden is now firmly in the hunt for a third NTT IndyCar Series championship after winning Saturday night’s Bommarito Automotive Group 500 at World Wide Technology Raceway Gateway.

Newgarden led a race-high 138 of 260 laps in claiming his second win of 2021 (Mid-Ohio). He becomes the fourth driver to score multiple wins this season in IndyCar, joining Pato O’Ward, Alex Palou and Marcus Ericsson.

O’Ward finished second to earn his fifth podium of the season and his first since winning Race No. 2 at Detroit’s Belle Isle Park in June. He also now holds the points lead by 10 points over Palou with three races to go.

Will Power followed his win last week on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course with a third-place finish. Power also earned his 63rd career Indy-car pole earlier Saturday. He is now within four poles of tying Mario Andretti for the most all-time.

IndyCar rookie Scott McLaughlin finished fourth, earning his best result since a runner-up in Race No. 1 at Texas Motor Speedway in May.

Sebastien Bourdais rose from 18th on the starting grid to finish fifth. The A.J. Foyt Racing driver matched his season-best result from April’s opener at Barber Motorsports Park.

Palou finished 20th to lose the points lead after being eliminated in a three-car incident that also involved teammate Scott Dixon and Rinus VeeKay.

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Here are the results and points standings after Saturday’s IndyCar race at Gateway:

IndyCar Gateway results

Box Score

Lap Leader Chart

Here is the finishing order with starting position in parentheses, driver, engine, laps completed and reason out:

1. (3) Josef Newgarden, Chevrolet, 260, Running
2. (5) Pato O’Ward, Chevrolet, 260, Running
3. (1) Will Power, Chevrolet, 260, Running
4. (11) Scott McLaughlin, Chevrolet, 260, Running
5. (18) Sebastien Bourdais, Chevrolet, 260, Running
6. (16) Takuma Sato, Honda, 260, Running
7. (13) Ryan Hunter-Reay, Honda, 260, Running
8. (4) Simon Pagenaud, Chevrolet, 260, Running
9. (6) Marcus Ericsson, Honda, 260, Running
10. (15) Jack Harvey, Honda, 260, Running
11. (20) Conor Daly, Chevrolet, 260, Running
12. (24) Dalton Kellett, Chevrolet, 260, Running
13. (17) Tony Kanaan, Honda, 260, Running
14. (14) Romain Grosjean, Honda, 259, Running
15. (19) James Hinchcliffe, Honda, 243, Running
16. (10) Felix Rosenqvist, Chevrolet, 211, Mechanical
17. (7) Alexander Rossi, Honda, 200, Contact
18. (2) Colton Herta, Honda, 185, Mechanical
19. (8) Scott Dixon, Honda, 100, Contact
20. (21) Alex Palou, Honda, 64, Contact
21. (23) Rinus VeeKay, Chevrolet, 64, Contact
22. (22) Ed Carpenter, Chevrolet, 54, Contact
23. (9) Graham Rahal, Honda, 4, Contact
24. (12) Ed Jones, Honda, 2, Contact

Winner’s average speed: 135.245 mph … Time of Race: 2:24:10.9404 … Margin of victory: 0.5397 of a second … Cautions: 6 for 49 … Lead changes: 11 among 6 drivers … Lap leaders: Power 1, Herta 2-57, Bourdais 58-67, Newgarden 68-132, Pagenaud 133, Bourdais 134-137, Newgarden 138, Herta 139-183, Newgarden 184-197, O’Ward 198, Bourdais 199-202, Newgarden 203-260

IndyCar Gateway points

Points Tally from Saturday’s race

Full Points Standings (through 13 of 16 races):

Top 10 in the standings: O’Ward 435, Palou 425, Newgarden 413, Dixon 392, Ericsson 375, Herta 324, Pagenaud 320, Rahal 319, Power 315, Sato 279

NEXT RACE

Grand Prix of Portland at Portland (Ore.) International Raceway – Sunday, Sept. 12, 3 p.m. ET on NBC

Portland track stats: 12-turn, 1.964-mile natural terrain road course
Past Portland winners: Takuma Sato – 2018, Will Power – 2019 (race canceled in 2020 becuase of the COVID-19 pandemic)
Begins season-ending run of three road and street course races in three weeks (Laguna Seca – Sept. 19; Long Beach – Sept. 26)

Click here for this year’s full broadcast schedule.

INDIANAPOLIS — The first Indy 500 victory for Josef Newgarden also was the richest in race history from a record 2023 purse of just more than $17 million.

The two-time NTT IndyCar Series champion, who continued his celebration Monday morning at Indianapolis Motor Speedway earned $3.666 million for winning the 107th running of the Greatest Spectacle in Racing.

The purse and winner’s share both are the largest in the history of the Indianapolis 500.

It’s the second consecutive year that the Indy 500 purse set a record after the 2022 Indy 500 became the first to crack the $16 million mark (nearly doubling the 2021 purse that offered a purse of $8,854,565 after a crowd limited to 135,000 because of the COVID-19 pandemic).

The average payout for IndyCar drivers was $500,600 (exceeding last year’s average of $485,000).

Indianapolis Motor Speedway owner Roger Penske, whose team also fields Newgarden’s No. 2 Dallara-Chevrolet, had made raising purses a priority since buying the track in 2020. But Penske but was unable to post big money purses until the race returned to full capacity grandstands last year.

The largest Indy 500 purse before this year was $14.4 million for the 2008 Indy 500 won by Scott Dixon (whose share was $2,988,065). Ericsson’s haul made him the second Indy 500 winner to top $3 million (2009 winner Helio Castroneves won $3,048,005.

Runner-up Marcus Ericsson won $1.043 million after falling short by 0.0974 seconds in the fourth-closest finish in Indy 500 history.

The 107th Indy 500 drew a crowd of at least 330,000 that was the largest since the sellout for the 100th running in 2016, and the second-largest in more than two decades, according to track officials.

“This is the greatest race in the world, and it was an especially monumental Month of May featuring packed grandstands and intense on-track action,” Penske Entertainment president and CEO Mark Miles said in a release. “Now, we have the best end card possible for the 107th Running of the Indianapolis 500: a record-breaking purse for the history books.”

Benjamin Pedersen was named the Indy 500 rookie of the year, earning a $50,000 bonus.

The race’s purse is determined through contingency and special awards from IMS and IndyCar. The awards were presented Monday night in the annual Indy 500 Victory Celebration at the JW Marriott in downtown Indianapolis.

The payouts for the 107th Indy 500:

1. Josef Newgarden, $3,666,000
2. Marcus Ericsson, $1,043,000
3. Santino Ferrucci, $481,800
4. Alex Palou, $801,500
5. Alexander Rossi, $574,000
6. Scott Dixon, $582,000
7. Takuma Sato, $217,300
8. Conor Daly, $512,000
9. Colton Herta, $506,500
10. Rinus VeeKay, $556,500
11. Ryan Hunter‐Reay, $145,500
12. Callum Ilott, $495,500
13. Devlin DeFrancesco, $482,000
14. Scott McLaughlin, $485,000
15. Helio Castroneves, $481,500
16. Tony Kanaan, $105,000
17. Marco Andretti, $102,000
18. Jack Harvey, $472,000
19. Christian Lundgaard, $467,500
20. Ed Carpenter, $102,000
21. Benjamin Pedersen (R), $215,300
22. Graham Rahal, $565,500*
23. Will Power, $488,000
24. Pato O’Ward, $516,500
25. Simon Pagenaud, $465,500
26. Agustín Canapino (R), $156,300
27. Felix Rosenqvist, $278,300
28. Kyle Kirkwood, $465,500
29. David Malukas, $462,000
30. Romain Grosjean, $462,000
31. Sting Ray Robb (R), $463,000
32. RC Enerson (R), $103,000
33. Katherine Legge, $102,000

*–Broken down between two teams, $460,000 Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, $105,500 Dreyer & Reinbold Racing/Cusick Motorsports