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Josef Newgarden: ‘We simply weren’t fast’ as Staff Penske falters in Thermal qualifying
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Josef Newgarden: ‘We simply weren’t fast’ as Staff Penske falters in Thermal qualifying

By Miles Cooper March 26, 2025
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Josef Newgarden: ‘We simply weren’t fast’ as Staff Penske falters in Thermal qualifying

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Staff Penske rolled into qualifying on the Thermal Membership with trigger for optimism after  season-opening pole place in St. Petersburg.

However on a sunny Saturday in California, it didn’t take lengthy for the staff’s weekend prognosis to show cloudy.

The Captain’s trio of drivers all struggled in qualifying for the Thermal Membership’s first NTT IndyCar Collection factors race, dropping out of rivalry after the opening group qualifying session. None got here near advancing, lacking out on Q2 for the primary time in practically 4 years and notching the staff’s worst collective qualifying consequence for the reason that 2021 Indianapolis 500.

Staff Penske’s powerful qualifying session

Issues didn’t take lengthy to begin going mistaken.

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Seconds into the session, McLaughlin went for a spin on his warmup lap, looping his No. 3 Chevrolet round. The incident didn’t trigger injury, however the Supercars champion was thrown off-plan and needed to serve a drive-through penalty that restricted his observe time after inflicting an area yellow.

With none banker laps, that left the Kiwi final on the charts with no margin for error when he strapped on the purple tires. However in his last-ditch effort to advance, McLaughlin discovered hassle forward.

“I made a mistake on the black tire,” McLaughlin stated of the spin. “Saved it, nevertheless it’s onerous to get a learn on the observe situations after that. The purple tire, I felt like we have been going to be fairly good as a result of we have been out of sync. …  I come across the nook in flip 1 and there was filth in every single place from whoever was in entrance of me. I simply had no grip in any respect.”

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The late misfortune doomed McLaughlin’s run, leaving him final among the many group. His teammates, and , weren’t significantly better off. Energy was equally hampered by an early mistake, pushing extensive within the first nook on his opening lap. He aborted the run, however by no means correctly recovered. Newgarden led the pair, however was hampered by premature site visitors forward and a uncommon mistake in flip 9.

The tip consequence have been group qualifying efforts of ninth and eleventh, leaving each drivers questioning what might have been.

“I don’t know, we simply weren’t fast,” Newgarden admitted, although he felt he might have transferred with higher fortune on the ultimate lap. “All of us didn’t look improbable in our group.”

Energy was left bemoaning one other key session gone awry. “Man, we have been good in each single session besides the one which counted,” he stated. “That’s been our complete 12 months to date. (We’ve) been extraordinarily good and quick in apply and testing. Even on blacks we have been fourth quickest there. After which when it got here time to do it, it simply wasn’t there. (Robust) to consider it.”

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Saturday’s mishaps will go away the Penske trio with a deep gap to crawl out of on Sunday. Newgarden will roll off seventeenth, with Energy and McLaughlin following in twenty first and twenty fifth, respectively. Regardless of the setback, the drivers tried to stay optimistic about their possibilities to enhance within the race.

“Payday’s tomorrow,” McLaughlin stated. “I’ve bought the perfect staff on pit street to get me going on this XPEL Chevy. We’ll see how we go. I’m bummed, dissatisfied in myself. However we’ll work on it and get higher tomorrow.”

Newgarden shared the optimism. “Clearly we’re going to have to seek out some velocity for tomorrow now, however we will at all times make one thing occur,” he stated. “I at all times really feel good with Staff Penske.”

Sunday’s race will go stay on FOX at 3:00 p.m. ET. .

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