Josef Newgarden was just 0.0128sec faster than Penske-Chevrolet teammate around Barber Motorsport Park’s 2.38-mile 17-turn course but it was enough to earn his first pole of 2018. The American, who set the fastest time of the weekend in Q2 with a 67.0 in Q2, then dug deep to notch a 67.4413sec to beat four-time Barber polesitter Power by barely more than a hundredth of a second. The reigning champion also became IndyCar's fourth different pole-winner of the season. Barely less impressive was Bourdais’ P3 in the Dale Coyne Racing-Honda, who wound up just 0.0924 off top spot, but quarter of a second ahead of Andretti Autosport-Honda’s Ryan Hunter-Reay. James Hinchcliffe’s Schmidt...
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