Josef Newgarden beat teammate Will Power in the finals of the Indianapolis 500 pit-stop challenge on Friday, giving the whole of Team Penske something to feel good about after a trying week leading up to “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.

It's been a rough week for Team Penske, but everything was 'Penske perfect' in the Pit Stop Challenge on Friday

Roger Penske announced the release of his IndyCar team's top three leadership members amid Indy 500 cheating scandal, including veteran Tim Cindric.

He won the pole with Italian team Prema Racing, a dominant European organization that this season expanded to IndyCar. Shwartzman has never before raced on an oval and will start alongside two-time winner Takuma Sato and Pato O’Ward, who lost to Newgarden on the last lap year.

While Josef Newgarden looks to put the Team Penske Indy 500 controversy behind himself, his teammate Will Power has also reacted to the incident. Moreover, the latter has also shared his opinion on the recent decisions by IndyCar and IMS owner Roger Penske (who also owns Team Penske).

Failed tech inspection has two-time defending race winner relegated to last-row starting position for 109th Indianapolis 500.

Team Penske's Will Power and Josef Newgarden failed technical inspection Sunday, knocking them out of Indy 500 qualifying

Two-time defending Indianapolis 500 winner Josef Newgarden and Team Penske teammate Will Power will have to start from the final two spots on the grid Sunday.

The first half of the two-phase Indianapolis 500 qualifying procedure took place to set positions seven through 12, and the results were absolutely unexpected as all three Team Penske cars failed to turn a lap as a result of Scott McLaughlin’s crash a few hours earlier and a failure