100 Days to Indy

- Ready. - Green, green, green, green.

You have to be brave.

This is a very demanding race.

Oh, Rosenqvist with a monster jump.

Look at all the cars dropping left sides in the grass!

Man, there's a lot of action,

a lot of moving around.

Texas was really the tale of two races.

The first 3/4 of the race, it was down to two drivers --

Pato O'Ward and Josef Newgarden.

The two strongest cars all day run side by side, nose to nose,

with seven to go at the Y!

You got to take big risks to get that big reward in Texas.

- He's on a mission! - Good to go.

Romain Grosjean out for the seventh race in a row!

And it was this 220-mile-an-hour chess match...

Yellow, yellow.

...who was gonna lead when

and be the last guy across the line?

Preparing to go to victory lane.

You know the way.

Ultimately, Josef put himself in the right place

to be a winner again at Texas.

There's always been this talk of the big three --

Ganassi, Penske, Andretti.

We're not far, man. We're right there.

- - We've made a statement.

I know we didn't win the race,

but we sure as hell showed everybody that --

that we were the class of the field, uh, together with Josef.

I think McLaren's confidence as a team is sky high right now.

It looks like a few more drivers and teams are in the mix,

which is just gonna make the whole season more exciting.

The biggest event outside the Indianapolis 500 --

the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach is away!

Long Beach is the Monaco Grand Prix of IndyCar.

After Indy,

that race is the one the drivers want to win the most.

I've got to continue pushing

for something that nobody ever did.

Welcome to the 4-time club!

Long Beach, I finished on the podium just a couple years ago,

and I think we're gonna be a player.

[Indistinct talking on television, engines revving]

Green, green, green!

Here we go, racing again in Texas!

I like to watch this back, you know,

see the decision-making process for everybody.

I feel really good right now.

You know, Team Penske as a whole is in a really good place.

I think Long Beach can be a good event for us.

So I think we have the ability to win

any race that we show up to.

I knew Pato was going to be my -- my biggest challenger.

I needed to get position on him.

So it's interesting to watch this back

and see the decision process,

not -- not just for me but for, also, Pato

and, you know, why did he do what --

Why did he make the decisions he made during the final part here?

The more diligent that you are about notekeeping,

I think the better you can be for -- for the next year.

- Kota man! - Come here, dude.

Come here!

Do you want to come write notes?

What do you think? Oh, that's a good note. Yeah.

- Just full notes. -

- It's caution time. - It's time to play.

Brace up.

That's how he gets in.

He knows exactly how to get into this thing.

He just falls into it, basically. Okay, buddy.

- You gotta go. - You gotta go take a nap.

- Yay! - It's bright. It's bright. Okay.

You've got to be really good at resetting.

You've just got to continually reset every weekend

and start fresh.

[Indistinct chatter on television]

Pato was my biggest challenger.

If that yellow didn't come out towards the end of the race,

it might have been hard for me to catch him.

All right. You ready?

We told you at home to take a breath, regroup, reset.

Now we go again.

And now to the lead goes Josef Newgarden!

He's not going to go anywhere.

You know, he's going to be someone that I have to compete

against all year and for a while.

He's -- He's one of the best out there.

The PPG 375 at Texas Motor Speedway

is won by Josef Newgarden

in the PPG Chevrolet for Team Penske!

What's that?

Three wins at Texas Motor Speedway!

That's how it worked out for him in that race,

but I'm sure it's going to work out the opposite in other races.

Which races will it be? I have no idea.

But Josef should get used to it.

That's what we want to do in and out, you know?

Joseph's in Penske.

So, like, if we want to win championships

and we want to win Indy 500s,

we're going to have to bring it to the Penskes

and the Ganassis every single weekend, week in, week out.

Like, it's not -- it's not going to be like, "Yeah, you know,

let's -- let's just beat them one weekend

and forget about the rest."

We're going to Tony's house.

Tony's got this -- you know, these, like, badass simulators,

and Tony Kanaan is one of the most liked drivers

in the series

and Indy 500 winner.

Butterfly!

Butterfly?

- - Pshoo!

Yes!

Every day I say good morning to my kids, my wife,

and my boy Gordon.

I'm Tony Kanaan,

and I'm a professional IndyCar driver.

The 12th time is the charm at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway!

The twin checkers wave!

T.K. has won the 2013 500!

Winning the 500 changed my life.

Today I'm having my beautiful young teammate --

Pato's coming to the house.

We're going to do some, uh, simulation, uh, testing.

Obviously in IndyCar,

we don't get to test in real life all the time,

so I put a setup here at home.

The sim that I use is this one. This is my baby.

It's my seat position

where my arm, my -- my brake pedal,

everything the way I like it, it's all set up for me.

I think one of the reasons that Arrow McLaren got me

was to add more experience to the young guns that they have.

- Hey! - They're plenty fast.

But we -- we exchange information, for sure.

- Nice! - But they are your teammates

until the green flag drops.

What are we driving -- Long Beach?

I thought -- I thought I'd sim Long Beach.

Long Beach?

As much as this is still a video game,

like, how Tony has it set up,

it's the closest you're gonna get it to the real car.

It is very difficult to actually practice in motorsports

because it's so expensive.

Ahh, you --

They can simulate and get pretty close to it.

In my opinion, he is, of the young generation,

probably the most raw, pure talent

I've ever seen.

Did you beat me yet?

No. Man, I've had one flyer.

- I keep crashing on the out lap. - Me, too.

He has everything.

He has the team. He has the car.

He has the talent.

Now it's up to him to try to put all these pieces together.

Old man's still got it a little bit, no?

- Yeah. -

Tony's been in this series longer than I've been alive.

That's a lot of experience that I can tap into.

I'm always gonna find ways to improve.

But we've had a phenomenal start to the season.

That's already two races that we could have won.

But Long Beach is -- well, you can't make a lot of errors.

You've got a nice wall.

- Watch him go right in the wall! - Oh, no!

- Oh, my goodness! - Imagine I was in the garden.

- Go! - Marcus Ericsson in the wall!

I'm in the wall.

- Oh, no! - Big crash!

It was just a stupid mistake.

Right now we're on our way to the racetrack.

There is a very special ceremony.

We're going to have the brick of the four-timers in a racetrack,

which is right at the Brickyard.

I'm actually got to contain here my emotions,

because this is an honor to be in this place,

which I call the home of the -- the gods of racing.

So, like always, we're waiting on the racecar driver.

All right. I know we're all cold,

so I'm going to make this quick.

In front of us are 576 bricks.

These 576 bricks are 114 years old,

and most of them have been the start/finish line

for those 114 years.

So this is the fourth time in our 114-year history

that this has happened where the owner of the speedway

and one of the drivers

is going to get an opportunity to unveil that.

So, Hélio, I'm going to have you grab that corner up front,

and, Roger, if you can get this one.

3, 2, 1. Let's bring it on back.

There you go -- the new yard of bricks.

that includes the bricks from our four four-time winners