Josef Newgarden beat teammate Will Power in the finals of the Indianapolis 500 pit-stop challenge on Friday, giving the whole of Team Penske something to feel good about after a trying week leading up...

Power said he “feels bad” for Penske because “he’s in a very tough spot.”

“What he did in firing three people is a big deal,” Arrow McLaren team principal Tony Kanaan told The Associated Press.

Those Magnificent Five back-to-back winners to precede Newgarden — Wilbur Shaw (1939-40), Mauri Rose (1947-48), Bill Vukovich (1953-54), Al Unser (1970-71) and Helio Castroneves (2001-02) — all had opportunities to add to their collection. None were able to capture that all-important gold for one reason or another.

The way in which rookie Robert Shwartzman shot up from the bottom of the timing charts to the very top in less than a week remains — admittedly during a chaotic lead-up to the Indy 500 — maybe the mo...