‘We’re in the hunt,’ Newgarden says after third St. Louis win

Josef Newgarden led 138 of 260 laps of Saturday night’s Bommarito 500 at World Wide Technology Raceway — including the last 57 — to grab his third win in six tries at the track and work himself into a strong position to contend for what would be his third IndyCar Series championship in five years.

Newgarden, who was born in Hendersonville and now lives in Nashville, survived a chaotic first third of the race and eventually held off Pato O’Ward of Arrow McLaren SP by about half a second to take the checkered flag at the 1.25-mile oval near downtown St. Louis.