Josef Newgarden re꧙-asserted himself as the points leader by taking his fourth win of the NTT IndyCar Season at the Iowa 300 at the Iowa Speedway in dominating fashio🍷n.

Heavy 🌞thunderstorms drenched the 7/8 mile oval just 30 minutes before the scheduled start of the race. Once the storms passed safety crews worked feꦯverishly to dry the track and battled a rough patch of seeping water in Turn 4.

Thღeir efforts were successful and the race 🦩started around 10:45 local time.

Will Power took the early lead from polesitter Simon Pagenaud while fourth-place starter Takuma Sato followed his tyre tracks to ꦍmove up to second. Behind the leaders, Santino Ferruc♔ci blasted from his 12th starting spot to move up to sixth by the end of the opening lap.

Power dominated w𒉰hat proved to be a short opening stint as Sage Karam spun into the path of Felix Rosenqvist on Lap 16 whiꦰch brought out the first yellow flag.

Power comfortably picked up where he left off ahead of teammates Pagenaud and Newgarden and built up a 2.2-second lead. He soon faltered w൲hen he hit lapped traffic which allowed Newgarden to capi♔talize and take the lead on Lap 48 just before the yellow flag flew for a few sprinkles on the course.

The rain halted the action for 25 minutes and opened up the pit window when the track dried. Newgarden retained the lead ahead of Power and Pagenaud while Alexander Rossi and Takuma Sato followed be♏hind.

Newgarden cleared his teammates on the restart while🍸 the action heated up behind them as Rossi and Santino Ferrucci engaged in a multi-lap duel for fifth place. The Dale Coyne Racing rookie eventually cleared the Andretti Autosport veteran as the pair closed on the fourth-place driver Sato.

Sato relinquished the position to the pair with Rossi even🦂tuallyꩲ clearing Ferrucci who fell into the clutches of James Hinchcliffe. Sato dropped out of the top ten and became the first to make a green flag stop on 121.

He soon rocketed his way past the leaders with four fres💙h Firestone tyres to his advantage and made up a ton of time.

Newgarden pitted from the lead on Lap 142 w꧃ith Power and Hinchcliffe following suit the very next lap.

Newgarden emerged as the leader with Sato’s tyre gamble putting him in second with Power riding close behind in third. Power eventually worked around the Japanese driver to take second as Newgarden🦹 extended his lead.

That lead allowed him to put championship 𒊎rival Rossi down a lap on the 182nd circuit just after Sato kicked off the second green flag pit sequence on Lap 180.

Sato’s luck took a turn for the worse on Lap 187 when he drifted in front of Sage Karam which sent him spinnin꧋g and brought out the yellow fla𝐆g.

The yellow allowed the leaders to pit and allowed R🎶ossi to take the waive around and get back on the leader lap.

The Lap 200 restart looked like a replay of the last with Newgarden pulling aw♓ay from Power while Pagenaud moved around Spencer Pigot into third while Hinchcliffe passed Ed Carpenter for fourth.

Further back, an ailing Marco Andretti bunched up the pack whi🐻ch allowed Ferrucci to pass an💫 astounding seven cars on the high line while Zach Veach moved up on the low line.

The Penske brig🐷ade gap❀ped the field with Newgarden gapping Power in traffic up to five seconds by Lap 237. Pagenaud briefly mounted a charge but lost time fighting lapped cars as the race reached the 50 to go mark.

Pagenaud kicked off the final pit sequence on Lap 251. Power’s night then took a turn for the worse on the next lap when he locked and nearly clobbered the pit road attenuator. Newgarden meanwhile had a flawless stop and re-emerged as the leader as Power was given a stop and g🐓o penalty.

As he was serving his penalty, Ed Carpenter spun off Turn 2 which kept him from losing multipl꧒e laps under green.

The yellow was also a saving grace for Scott Dixon, who h𝐆adn’t made his final stop yet. He was followed on pit road by Rossi, Herta and Veach.

They lined up sixth, seventh and eighth while Newgarden led Pagenaud, Hinchcliffe, Pigot fo❀llowed.

As he had done all night, Newgarden dropped the hammer on the restart while Dixon flew through the field on fresher tyres. The Kiwi entered the 🃏top five with 15 to go when he dispatched Pigot🐼 and soon inhaled Pagenaud with relative ease.

He passed Hinchcliffe for second ju🌌s♉t as effortlessly but found himself 2.3 seconds in arrears to Newgarden.

T꧒hꦜat proved to be as close as he got as Newgarden took his fourth win of the season.

Hinchcliffe rounded out the podium𓄧 while Pagenaud finished fourth ahead of Spencer Pigot in fifth.

Rossi ended up in sixth ahead of Andretti Auto𒀰sport teammate Zach 𒐪Veach who claimed his best finish of his season in seventh.

Graham Rahal nursed an ailing Honda engine to e💎ighth place in front of Sebastien Bourdaꦬin in ninth while Tony Kanaan completed the top ten.