Josef Newgarden

Josef Newgarden
Newgarden at the 2012 Indy 500
Nationality	American
Born	December 22, 1990 Hendersonville, Tennessee, U.S.
IndyCar Series career
Debut season	2012
Current team	Team Penske
Car no.	2
Former teams	Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing CFH Racing Ed Carpenter Racing
Starts	82
Wins	3
Podiums	10
Poles	1
Fastest laps	8
Best finish	4th in 2016
Previous series
2006–07 2007–08 2009 2009 2010 2011	Skip Barber Southern Regional Skip Barber National Formula Palmer Audi British Formula Ford GP3 Series Indy Lights
Championship titles
2011	Indy Lights

Josef Nicolai Newgarden (born December 22, 1990) is an American race car driver, who currently competes as a driver in the Verizon IndyCar Series. He will drive the 2 car, for Team Penske, starting in 2017.

Career

Karting

Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Newgarden drove a kart for the first time at the age of thirteen. In 2006, he took titles in two classes of the Kart Racers of America – Junior Yamaha championship and won the Junior TAG World Championship.^[1]

Skip Barber

Newgarden started his single-seaters career in the Skip Barber Racing School series in 2006. He finished as runner-up in the Southern Regional Series with three wins and another seven podium places.^[2] He next competed in the 2007 BFGoodrich / Skip Barber National Presented by Mazda championship, finishing sixth with two wins.^[3] Newgarden remained in the series for 2008 and improved to second place, with three wins.^[4]

Formula Ford

After some participations in Formula Ford races in 2008 and a win in the Kent Class at the Formula Ford Festival, he moved to the British Formula Ford Championship in 2009. Again he was runner-up, amassing 550 points and nine wins.^[5]

Formula Palmer Audi

Newgarden competed in the opening round of the 2009 Formula Palmer Audi season at Brands Hatch, taking two wins and a fourth in the third race.^[6]

GP3 Series

Newgarden move into the new-for-2010 GP3 Series with the Carlin team.^[7] He finished 18th in points, with a pole position at Hockenheimring and a best finish of fifth in the season finale at Monza.

Indy Lights

Josef Newgarden clinching the Indy Lights Championship

In 2011 Newgarden returned to North America to race in the Indy Lights series for Sam Schmidt Motorsports.^[8] He won his first Indy Lights race in the season opener on the Streets of St. Petersburg.^[9] He followed his opening win in St. Petersburg with four more wins and ten podium finishes out of thirteen races in 2011,^[10] clinching him the points championship with one race to go.^[11] In New Hampshire, the 11th race of 2011, Newgarden lapped the entire field and went on to win. He was the first Indy Lights driver to do this since Thiago Medeiros in March 2004.^[12]

IndyCar

2012-2014 | Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing

On December 7, 2011, Newgarden was announced as the driver for Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing. He competed in IndyCar from 2012 to 2014 with Sarah Fisher's team, earning his first podium at the 2013 race in Baltimore. He narrowly missed the win at the 2014 Iowa Corn Indy 300 due to problems with his last pit stop.^[13]

2015 | CFH Racing

During his fourth full season in IndyCar, Newgarden raced under the merged team of Sarah Fisher and Ed Carpenter.^[14] Under this new team banner, Newgarden started 2015 strong, finishing in 12th position at St. Petersburg and improving his position with each race.

During the fourth race weekend in the 2015 season, he earned his first Indycar Series victory at the 2015 Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama, moving from 5th to 2nd on the first lap of the race, and leading the most laps on the way to a 2.2 second win.^[15]

He won again later in the season at the 2015 Honda Indy Toronto^[16] and finished the 2015 season 7th in the standings with 431 points, a personal best in IndyCar.

2016 | Ed Capenter Racing

Sarah Fisher ended her participation in IndyCar after the 2015 season, leaving Josef Newgarden to drive for the reformed Ed Capenter Racing.

Josef started the 2016 season strong with a podium at the 2016 Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama at Barber Motorsports Park. He barely missed pole position during qualifying for the 2016 Indy 500 and started in the middle of the front row. He finished the 100th running of the Indy 500 in a strong 3rd.^[17]

At the 2016 Firestone 600 at Texas Motor Speedway Newgarden crashed hard into the wall, breaking both his hand and clavicle.^[18] Remarkably, he returned to the car two weeks later, working his way to a top 10 spot at the 2016 Kohler Grand Prix at Road America.^[19]

Only 28 days after his crash at Texas, Josef won the 2016 Iowa Corn 300. He led 282 of 300 laps in the race, "destroying"^[20] the field. A remarkable achievement with a broken hand and shoulder.

At IndyCar's return to Watkins Glen International, the 2016 Grand Prix at the Glen, Newgarden claimed another podium, finishing 2nd.^[21] After a 6th place finish at the 2016 GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma,^[22] he finished the season in 4th place overall in the season standings.

2017

On September 29, 2016. Ed Carpenter confirmed that he would not be back with the team in 2017.^[23] Newgarden will move to Team Penske for the 2017 season according to IndyCar insiders,^[24] with the team making an official announcement on October 5th.^[25]

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	FLaps	Podiums	Points	Position
2006–07	Skip Barber Southern	RT LLC	12	3	3	5	10	443	2nd
2007	Skip Barber National	RT LLC	14	2	3	3	4	326	6th
	Skip Barber Southern Regional Run-Offs		?	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2007–08	Skip Barber Southern	RT LLC	2	0	1	1	1	61	29th
2008	Skip Barber National	RT LLC	14	3	6	3	5	372	2nd
	Ontario Formula Ford Challenge F1600-A		2	0	0	0	0	0	NC
	Skip Barber Eastern		1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
	Skip Barber Mid Western		1	1	0	1	1	69	35th
	IMSA Lites L1 Presented by Hankook	Batos Racing	2	0	0	1	1	16	19th
	Formula Ford 1600 Walter Hayes Trophy	Team USA / Cliff Dempsey Racing	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	14th
	Formula Ford Festival – Kent Class		1	1	0	0	1	N/A	1st
2009	British Formula Ford Championship	JTR	25	9	4	8	16	550	2nd
	Formula Ford Festival		1	0	0	0	0	N/A	NC
	Formula Palmer Audi	MotorSport Vision	3	2	0	0	2	64	18th
	Formula Ford 1600 Walter Hayes Trophy		1	0	0	0	0	N/A	6th
2010	GP3 Series	Carlin	15	0	1	0	0	8	18th
2011	Indy Lights	Sam Schmidt Motorsports	14	5	3	4	10	533	1st
2012	IndyCar	Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing	14	0	0	3	0	200	23rd
2013	IndyCar	Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing	19	0	0	0	1	348	14th
2014	IndyCar	Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing	18	0	0	2	1	406	13th
2015	IndyCar	CFH Racing	16	2	1	0	4	431	7th
2016	IndyCar	Ed Carpenter Racing	8	1	0	2	3	259	4th*

^* Season still in progress.

Complete GP3 Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	DC	Points
2010	Carlin	CAT FEA Ret	CAT SPR 16	IST FEA 10	IST SPR 23	VAL FEA Ret	VAL SPR 26	SIL FEA 16	SIL SPR 11	HOC FEA 18	HOC SPR 19	HUN FEA 7	HUN SPR Ret	SPA FEA DNS	SPA SPR 21	MNZ FEA 7	MNZ SPR 5	18th	8

American open–wheel racing results

(key)

Indy Lights

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Rank	Points
2011	Sam Schmidt Motorsports	STP 1	ALA 6	LBH 13	INDY 1	MIL 2	IOW 1	TOR 8	EDM 2	EDM 1	TRO 3	NHM 1	BAL 2	KTY 2	LVS 9	1st	553

IndyCar Series

Year	Team	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	Rank	Points
2012	Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing	Dallara DW12	Honda	STP 11	ALA 17	LBH 26	SAO 23	INDY 25	DET 15	TXS 13	MIL 25	IOW 19	TOR 13	EDM 17	MDO 12	SNM 23	BAL	FON 16					23rd	200
2013				STP 23	ALA 9	LBH 13	SAO 5	INDY 28	DET 7	DET 16	TXS 8	MIL 11	IOW 15	POC 5	TOR 23	TOR 11	MDO 23	SNM 24	BAL 2	HOU 5	HOU 13	FON 20	14th	348
2014				STP 9	LBH 19	ALA 8	IMS 17	INDY 30	DET 20	DET 17	TXS 11	HOU 20	HOU 20	POC 8	IOW 2	TOR 20	TOR 13	MDO 12	MIL 5	SNM 6	FON 10		13th	406
2015	CFH Racing		Chevrolet	STP 12	NLA 9	LBH 7	ALA 1	IMS 20	INDY 9	DET 8	DET 21	TXS 21	TOR 1	FON 21	MIL 5	IOW 2	MDO 13	POC 2	SNM 21				7th	431
2016	Ed Carpenter Racing			STP 22	PHX 6	LBH 10	ALA 3	IMS 21	INDY 3	DET 14	DET 4	RDA 8	IOW 1	TOR 22	MDO 10	POC 4	TXS 22	WGL 2	SNM 6				4th	502

* Season still in progress.

Indianapolis 500

Year	Chassis	Engine	Start	Finish	Team
2012	Dallara	Honda	7	25	Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing
2013	Dallara	Honda	25	28	Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing
2014	Dallara	Honda	8	30	Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing
2015	Dallara	Chevrolet	9	9	CFH Racing
2016	Dallara	Chevrolet	2	3	Ed Carpenter Racing

References

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23. "Josef Newgarden leaving Ed Carpenter Racing". Retrieved 2016-09-30.
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External links

• Official website
• Josef Newgarden driver statistics at Racing-Reference
• Josef Newgarden career statistics at Driver Database
• IndyCar 36: Josef Newgarden - 2012 IndyCar documentary
• IndyCar 36: Josef Newgarden - 2013 IndyCar documentary