It's been a rough week for Team Penske, but everything was 'Penske perfect' in the Pit Stop Challenge on Friday

He won the pole with Italian team Prema Racing, a dominant European organization that this season expanded to IndyCar. Shwartzman has never before raced on an oval and will start alongside two-time winner Takuma Sato and Pato O’Ward, who lost to Newgarden on the last lap year.

Josef Newgarden opened Media Day establishing a boundary: his only focus was Sunday. Not the violations. Not the firings. Just Sunday.

On Carburetion Day, better known as Carb Day, at the Indianapolis 500 on Friday, the fastest car perhaps fittingly belonged to the two-time defending champion.

There were few winners out of the attenuator controversy that overshadowed qualifying and the build-up to the 109th edition of

Team Penske's Will Power and Josef Newgarden failed technical inspection Sunday, knocking them out of Indy 500 qualifying

Two-time defending Indianapolis 500 winner Josef Newgarden and Team Penske teammate Will Power will have to start from the final two spots on the grid Sunday.

The first half of the two-phase Indianapolis 500 qualifying procedure took place to set positions seven through 12, and the results were absolutely unexpected as all three Team Penske cars failed to turn a lap as a result of Scott McLaughlin’s crash a few hours earlier and a failure