INDYCAR: Driver Ratings for HyVee One Step 250 at Iowa, Won by Josef Newgarden

Crash INDYCAR journalist Chad Smith goes through the field to hand out driver ratings for the HyVee One Step 250 at Iowa.
Josef Newgarden, Team Penske at Iowa
Josef Newgarden, Team Penske at Iowa

Josef Newgarden: 10

Newgarden owns Iowa Speedway, and proved it✨ again by sweeping both races this weekend, leading 341 of the 500 laps🌼.

Will Power: 10

He still hasn't won at Iowa, but he has now won the last fo🍎ur poles at the track, and finished runner-up to his teammate today.

Alex Palou: 9

The championship leader continues to impress, f𒁏inishing 8th and 3rd on a short oval, which had been viewed as his only weakness.

Felix Rosenqvist: 8

A late caution flag presented an opportu🀅nity, but he simply didn't have the pace (or the tires) to compete for the win.

Scott McLaughlin: 8

He led laps and battled with his two teammates for the lead all weekend, but couldn't seal the dea❀l for his first oval win.

Scott Dixon: 7

Two 6th place finishes made for a t✃ypical s🍌low-and-steady weekend for Dixon.

Colton Herta: 6

After a horrendous Saturday, Herta and his team rebಞounded for a🍷 solid 7th place finish on Sunday.

David Malukas: 7

Lik🥀e Herta, Malukas performed much 🐓better today to salvage the overall weekend.

Marcus Ericsson: 8

Ericsson seemed♍ to have the pace to keep up with the Penske cars at times, but he couldn't capitalize at the end of the races.

Pato O'Ward: 7

A podium finish and a top-ten result made for a decent weekend for O'Ward, but he and the McLaren team remain꧟ winless with just five races to go.

Pato O'Ward
Pato O'Ward

Kyle Kirkwood: 7

It wasn't a great weekend for Kirkwood, but the bad luck at lea🌞st stayed away from his No. 27 team.

Romain Grosjean: 6

A pair of top-12 finishes didn't impress anyone, but Grosjean at least stayed out of trouble and was able to finish both races, which isꦐ a major positive for his future.

Christian Lundgaard: 5

The race winner from last wꦓeekend was nowhere tꦕo be found this weekend, in either race.

Callum Ilott: 6

It was an average day for Ilott and his Juncos Hollin💞ger Racing team, a𓃲s they try to turn their season around.

Alexander Rossi: 6

Expectations were much higher for Rossi than his 10th and 1༒5th place results.

Helio Castroneves: 6

Over🔥all it was a decent weekend for the four-time Indy 500 winner, in what is likely his final full season.

Conor Daly: 6

Daly was a solid fill-in for Simon Pagena💯ud this weekend, but he didn't tur🅰n any heads this weekend.

Rinus VeeKay: 5

Another poor week▨end for VeeKay and the Ed Carpenter Racing team.

Jack Harvey: 5

This may have been Harvey's last race we🧜ekend,ꦑ as his miserable tenure at RLL Racing continued.

Graham Rahal: 5

Crashܫing y🌸esterday was not great, and finishing 20th after starting 5th today was almost as bad.

Devlin DeFrancesco: 5

He was never a factor in🎃 either race this weekend.

Santino Ferrucci: 4

Considering his talent on ovals, it wa💙s a disappointing weekend for﷽ Ferrucci and the AJ Foyt Racing team.

Ed Carpenter: 3

Neither race went well for Carpenter, who𝓀 will make one more start this season.

Ryan Hunter-Reay: 4

His late-race brush with the wall was a great metaphor for ♎how his weekend went.

Takuma Sato: 3

After a solid S꧟aturday, Sato went the other direction today, making contact with the wall and ending his day early.

Agustin Canapino: 3

Canapino 🔯also bru♔shed the wall today as he was making his Iowa debut.

Benjamin Pedersen: 2

This was a horrendous weekend for Pedersen, wℱho was never a factor.

Sting Ray Robb: 2

The only time he was mentioned was when his wheel came offᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ.

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