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'''Josef Nicolai Newgarden''' (born December 22, 1990) is an [[United States|American]] race car driver, who currently competes as a driver in the [[IndyCar Series|Verizon IndyCar Series]]. Newgarden won the [[2017 IndyCar Series]] Championship by driving the No. 1 [[Dallara]] [[Chevrolet]] for [[Team Penske]].
'''Josef Nicolai Newgarden''' (born December 22, 1990) is an [[United States|American]] race car driver, who currently competes as a driver in the [[IndyCar Series|Verizon IndyCar Series]]. Newgarden won the [[2017 IndyCar Series]] Championship and now drives the No. 1 [[Dallara]] [[Chevrolet]] for [[Team Penske]].


==Career==
==Career==

Revision as of 02:05, 25 May 2018

Josef Newgarden
Newgarden at the 2012 Indianapolis 500
NationalityAmerican
BornJosef Nicolai Newgarden
(1990-12-22) December 22, 1990 (age 33)
Hendersonville, Tennessee, United States
IndyCar Series career
100 races run over 6 years
Team(s)No. 1 (Team Penske)
2017 position1st
Best finish1st (2017)
First race2012 Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg (St. Petersburg)
Last race2024 Grand Prix of Portland (Portland)
First win2015 Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama (Barber)
Last win2018 Honda Indy Grand Prix ([Barber]])
Wins Podiums Poles
9 20 3
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
2017		Indy Lights
Verizon IndyCar Series

Josef Nicolai Newgarden (born December 22, 1990) is an American race car driver, who currently competes as a driver in the Verizon IndyCar Series. Newgarden won the 2017 IndyCar Series Championship and now drives the No. 1 Dallara Chevrolet for Team Penske.

Career

Karting

Born in Hendersonville, 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 Carpenter Racing

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

Newgarden 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, Newgarden 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–present: Team Penske

On September 29, 2016, ECR owner Ed Carpenter confirmed that Newgarden would not be back with the team in 2017.[23] Newgarden moved to Team Penske for the 2017 season,[24] with the team making an official announcement on October 5.[25]

Newgarden won his first race with Team Penske during round 3 of the 2017 season at Barber Motorsports Park; clinching the victory after a duel with Scott Dixon in the final laps.[26] Newgarden moved into the IndyCar points lead following back to back victories at Toronto and Mid Ohio.[27]

At Gateway, Newgarden held off his teammates and Scott Dixon to clinch his fourth series victory of the season, but not without controversy, as late in the race Newgarden went under teammate Simon Pagenaud very late going into Turn 1. After bumping tires both continued, but, as Pagenaud nearly hit the wall, he was not pleased with his teammate's move. The following week at Watkins Glen, Newgarden had a sizable cushion in the points over second place Dixon. Coming back onto the track after a pit stop under green on cold tires, he lost control of the car and Sebastien Bourdais made contact with him damaging the suspension. Newgarden ended up leaving the Glen with a three-point lead, later a four-point lead as he won the pole for Sonoma, setting a track record. Newgarden needed to finish 4th or higher regardless of Pagenaud's result and he finished 2nd to clinch his first title.[28] Newgarden became the first American born driver to win the Astor Cup since Ryan Hunter-Reay in 2012.

Personal Life

Before focusing on racing, Newgarden played baseball and basketball, but continues to pursue other athletic pursuits off the track. Along with fellow racers Tony Kanaan and Helio Castroneves, he competed in the Indianapolis round of season 8 of American Ninja Warrior in 2016.[29]

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 16 1 0 3 4 502 4th
2017 IndyCar Team Penske 17 4 1 5 9 642 1st

* 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 		ROA
8 		IOW
1 		TOR
22 		MDO
10 		POC
4 		TXS
22 		WGL
2 		SNM
6 		4th 502
2017 Team Penske STP
8 		LBH
3 		ALA
1 		PHX
9 		IMS
11 		INDY
19 		DET
4 		DET
2 		TXS
13 		ROA
2 		IOW
6 		TOR
1 		MDO
1 		POC
2 		GTW
1 		WGL
18 		SNM
2 		1st 642
2018 STP
7 		PHX
1 		LBH
7 		ALA
1 		IMS
11 		INDY DET DET TXS ROA IOW TOR MDO POC GTW POR SNM 1st* 178*

* Season still in progress.

Years Teams Races Poles Wins Top 5s Top 10s Indianapolis 500
Wins 		Championships
6 4 100 2 7 27 47 0 1

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
2017 Dallara Chevrolet 22 19 Team Penske
2018 Dallara Chevrolet 4 Team Penske

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