What were the 3️⃣ secrets to Josef Newgarden's Indy500 success? 🤔 Find out in this exclusive interview with his Team_Penske race engineer Luke Mason, who helped make the magic happen 👇
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“You have to be very careful about what you run,” says Mason. “You’d think that starting down the back would mean you’d have to run a fair bit of downforce to be able to follow cars and be able to get through the pack, but at the same time if you overdo it there, once you get to the front you’re a sitting duck and you can’t do anything.
While two weeks of practice sounds like engineering nirvana, Indianapolis Motor Speedway can be a brainbuster when it comes to car setup. Different ambient and track temperatures can have a huge impact on performance, and some blustery wind days added to the potential for confusion. “Obviously qualifying didn’t quite go to plan unfortunately which makes it a lot harder – that’s not quite how we drew it up, we would have liked to start up the front and make our life a little bit easier there.
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