Rounds 5 & 6: revised calendar. Iowa IndyCar 250s, Newton, Iowa. July 17-18. - Page 3

**bjohnsonsmith** · 19 Jul 2020, 14:54 (Ref:3989523)

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Originally Posted by joeb

I just finished watching this race on replay this morning, and I was gutted for O'ward. He seemed to be the only one had a shot at beating Newgarden. The short tracks are so crazy because you can finish 20 seconds behind the leader and be a lap down.

Overall it was a pretty good race again, glad to see there weren't too many incidents and the ones that did occur were small.

Did you watch Race 1? The number of pitstop errors was ridiculous.

**joeb** · 21 Jul 2020, 16:21 (Ref:3990011)

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Originally Posted by bjohnsonsmith

Did you watch Race 1? The number of pitstop errors was ridiculous.

No i didn't record race 1 for some reason. There have been numerous pit stop errors throughout the field this year so far though.

**bjohnsonsmith** · 21 Jul 2020, 16:29 (Ref:3990013)

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Originally Posted by joeb

No i didn't record race 1 for some reason. There have been numerous pit stop errors throughout the field this year so far though.

Race 1 at Iowa took the biscuit.

fieldodreams79 · 26 Jul 2020, 22:39 (Ref:3990934)

Just finished race 2; did catch race 1 yesterday. Good stuff. Love Iowa. What a drive in both races from Simon. Good pit work for him, at least. Stinks for O'Ward. Not sure there was any stopping Josef but still. Horrible luck.

D.R.T. · 27 Jul 2020, 05:23 (Ref:3990953)

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Originally Posted by broadrun96

Only Will Power could call Pags and Dixon bad drivers because he's had bad luck. Really dude? You didn't get go finishes because you hit sh1t the last couple weeks and then your team didn't get the wheel nut. It's not they're bad drivers and get lucky late. You are fast and then HIT things, cars don't go so fast after that.

To be fair, I don't believe Power called Simon and Dixon bad drivers. He highlighted that the drivers running further down the field benefited from the yellow flags whilst the leaders were burned by it (the same as what occurred in Indianapolis for the GP).

Then he said if 'he' (Power) was a worse driver and ran more often down the field maybe that would be a better strategy.

By all accounts, Josef was equally fuming after the 1st race.

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