Josef Newgarden left Indianapolis as the Indy500 Champion last year. However, this year the 33-year-old has his Team Penꦯske team-mates in his way fr꧑om completing back-to-back Indy500 wins.

Newga🌱rden will start the race in third place on Sunday, just behind Will Power in second pla♌ce and Scott McLaughlin on pole, after he set a record speed on his quest for pole position.

Despite starting third Newgarden is still full of confidence and full of praise for his team and car ahead of the 108th running of the 🌼Indy5💞00:

“Car is fantastic,” Newgarden said of his No. 2 Shell Powering Progress Team Penske Che🥂vrolet.

“This has been a really pleasurable month for the whole team🥂. You can see every individual on this team has been really proud of the effort, as they should be. What they achieved on the weekend i𓆉s not easy to do, to make the cars as quick as they are. This didn't appear overnight.

“Everybody that has been here the last four years knows we've not had speed﷽ in the cars. We've been chipping away. Last year was a big step. Got p🌞retty close, but we were still off. I think this year we really turned the page.”