Josef Newgarden overcame his injuries to put on a clinic at Iowa Speedway, leading 282 of the 300 laps – the most ever led in an Indy car race – and moved up to second in the championship hunt. The Ed Carpenter Racing-Chevrolet driver took the lead at the start of the Iowa Corn 300, going around the outside of championship leader and polesitter Simon Pagenaud. Swiftly leaving the Team Penske driver behind, such was Newgarden's pace that long before one-third distance, he had lapped third-placed Helio Castroneves. It’s interesting to speculate how many times he might have lapped all his rivals had the race run green throughout. But the three yellow flags – Ryan Hunter-Reay’s...
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