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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.
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Kyle Larson learned from Pato O’Ward’s late loss to Josef Newgarden in last year’s Indy 500 — and vows not to make the same mistake.
Two-time defending Indy 500 champion Josef Newgarden put together the the fastest lap on the final day of practice for the Indianapolis 500, while others such as Takuma Soto and Graham Rahal struggled.