{"id":31940,"date":"2025-07-12T20:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T01:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/?p=31940"},"modified":"2025-07-12T20:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T01:46:12","slug":"pato-oward-wins-synk-275-at-iowa-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/pato-oward-wins-synk-275-at-iowa-speedway\/","title":{"rendered":"Pato O\u2019Ward Wins Synk 275 at Iowa Speedway"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Newton, IA (Saturday, July 12, 2025) \u2013 <\/b>Pato O\u2019Ward again celebrated a victory in a monumental race at Iowa Speedway, this time at the expense of his NTT INDYCAR SERIES rival.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the 100th series start of O\u2019Ward\u2019s career, the Arrow McLaren driver overcame Josef Newgarden\u2019s dominating performance in the Synk 275 powered by Sukup with late-race execution featuring a pair of restarts in the final 14 laps.<\/span><\/p>

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This story is familiar. O\u2019Ward<\/a> and Newgarden continue to battle each other for race wins, with Newgarden\u2019s signature win in the rivalry coming in the 2024 Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge. He passed O\u2019Ward on the last lap.<\/span><\/p>\n

This time, it was O\u2019Ward making the winning moves. He had a quicker final pit stop to overtake the driver who led the race\u2019s first 232 laps and seemed on his way to a record-extending seventh race win here. Then, following a red flag to repair the track\u2019s Turn 4 wall, O\u2019Ward kept the Team Penske driver behind him on restarts with 14 and nine laps remaining.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Newton, IA- 2025 SYNK 275 Powered by SUKUP in Newton, IA (Photo by Travis Hinkle | IMS Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

O\u2019Ward\u2019s margin of victory in the No. 5 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet was .2352 of a second, the closest Iowa finish since 2007 when Dario Franchitti edged Marco Andretti by .0861 of a second.<\/span><\/p>\n

In oval races where these two drivers finished first and second, O’Ward last got the better of Newgarden in 2021 at Texas Motor Speedway. He had finished second to Newgarden in four other oval races since that day in Fort Worth.<\/span><\/p>

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\u201cJosef is the master at these races \u2013 he rules around here, so I knew that we had to be spot-on,\u201d O\u2019Ward said. \u201cI was so precise on the in lap to beat him at his own game.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve had so many duels, Josef and I, but he has a percentage that comes out on top more. Today is the day that changes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

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Coincidentally, O\u2019Ward scored his first victory at this short oval in 2022, and it was the 50th series start. Also that day, O\u2019Ward had Team Penske drivers in his mirrors \u2013 it was Will Power followed by Scott McLaughlin. This time, O\u2019Ward led a trio of Roger Penske\u2019s men to the to the finish line: Newgarden, Power and McLaughlin, respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n

While O\u2019Ward won his first race of the season, he denied Team Penske its first win of the year. One of the three of them had won eight of the past nine series races at Iowa, including doubleheader sweeps each of the past two years. McLaughlin had charged from the last starting position \u2013 27th \u2013 after crashing in qualifying earlier in the day.<\/span><\/p>

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Chevrolet had its best result of the season, finishing 1-2-3-4 and winning the first time this year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Newgarden led more than 100 laps for the 14th time in his career and the 10th time at this track. He was disappointed to let this one get away.<\/span><\/p>

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\u201cO\u2019Ward got track position and that was game over,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was as simple as that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The dash to the finish was set up by the Turn 4 accident of O\u2019Ward\u2019s teammate, Nolan Siegel. After running in the top 10 most of the race, Siegel spun into the wall, contact that damaged the energy-absorbing SAFER Barrier. INDYCAR issued a red-flag stoppage to preserve the remaining few laps as workers patched the wall.<\/span><\/p>\n

O\u2019Ward got a noticeable jump on Newgarden on the first restart, but PREMA Racing\u2019s Callum Ilott drifted high on that lap and brushed the Turn 1 wall. As Ilott was able to get to the pits without much trouble, the race restarted with nine laps remaining.<\/span><\/p>\n

Newgarden got a better run on O\u2019Ward on that try, but on the second time around the No. 2 Astemo Team Penske Chevrolet almost got away from him in Turn 1. O\u2019Ward was able to slip away a bit, eating up laps that would have been valuable to Newgarden\u2019s bid.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trailing the Penske cars to the finish was Chip Ganassi Racing\u2019s Alex Palou, the series points leader who finished fifth. Palou lost seven points off his lead as O\u2019Ward used the victory to jump to second in the standings, but the driver of the No. 10 DHL Chip Ganassi Racing Honda still holds a 106-point cushion with six races to go.<\/span><\/p>\n

Andretti Global\u2019s Kyle Kirkwood took a big hit in both the race and in points when his No. 27 Sukup Honda veered hard into the Turn 1 wall on Lap 153. An issue with the right-front corner of the car appeared to cause the excursion. That was the second accident of the day as he crashed at the other end of the track after appearing to get too low in Turn 3.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kirkwood not only lost a standings position to O\u2019Ward, Palou pulled away by another 27 points, putting the season\u2019s three-time winner 140 points in arrears.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the race\u2019s 75th lap, series rookie Jacob Abel saw his No. 51 Abel Construction Honda drift high in Turn 2, where he, too, hit the wall. Neither he nor Kirkwood were injured.<\/span><\/p>\n

The second half of the weekend doubleheader will be staged Sunday with the Farm to Finish 275 powered by Sukup<\/a> with coverage beginning at 1 p.m. ET on FOX, the FOX Sports app and the INDYCAR Radio Network.<\/span><\/p>\n

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