He’s always unfailingly polite, humble, even-tempered and enthusiastic. But Josef Newgarden was struggling to display any of those emotions late Sunday afternoon. “It just sucks that we didn’t have a shootout where we could have raced each other,” said most disappointed third-place finisher in recent Indianapolis 500 history. “I really would have liked to race people. I would have been on the high side, doing something crazy to try and win this thing. I think that would have been a lot cooler but it didn’t work out.” The 25-year-old from Hendersonville, Tenn. had to surrender the lead with seven laps left to put some fuel in his Preferred Freezer Chevy. Carlos Munoz followed...
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