That mentality has been absorbed by Team Penske driver Josef Newgarden, a meticulous driver who came oh, so close to pulling off a sweep of all five oval events on the 2023 NTT INDYCAR SERIES schedule. Newgarden started the season with oval wins at Texas Motor Speedway, the Indianapolis 500 and both races of the Hy-Vee INDYCAR Race Weekend at Iowa Speedway. He also won the last oval race of the 2022 season, at World Wide Technology Raceway. Still, Newgarden is the unquestioned short oval king among current INDYCAR SERIES drivers. He has won six races at Iowa, is 4-for-7 at WWTR and won in 2018 at Phoenix. In fact, each of Newgarden’s last six race wins have come on ovals, as have eight of his last 10 wins overall.

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