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If you were fortunate enough to watch the IndyCar action from last week’s second round at Texas Motor Speedway, you may still be raving about the racing.
If you’re a Pato O’Ward or Arrow McLaren fan, you will feel slighted that he lost his last chance to snatch the lead from eventual winner Josef Newgarden of Team Penske, thanks to a fifth caution period for Romain Grosjean’s wreck on the penultimate lap. O’Ward assured us that he had worked out the timing of the move he’d need to pull on the 250th and final lap to ensure he nosed over the timing beam ahead of Penske, but it’s a matter of conjecture. For the second straight race, he was left frustrated by a runner-up finish, and it’s little consolation to be leading the championship when there are 15 rounds still to go.
Still, while he was in the moment, racing Newgarden and Alex Palou of Chip Ganassi Racing for the win, O’Ward was surely having fun – and we were having fun watching him and all the others. When the field bunched for the re …