Josef Newgarden

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Josef Newgarden
Josef Newgarden at the 2012 Indy 500.jpg
Newgarden at the 2012 Indy 500
Nationality American
Born (1990-12-22) December 22, 1990 (age 33)
Hendersonville, Tennessee
IndyCar Series career
Debut season 2012
Current team CFH Racing
Car no. 67
Former teams Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing
Starts 67
Wins 2
Poles 1
Fastest laps 5
Best finish 7th in 2015
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 in the IndyCar Series driving for CFH Racing.

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

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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 for 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

On December 7, 2011, Newgarden was announced as the driver for Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing. He ran his first full season schedule in an Indycar in 2012. He is now competing in his fourth full season, under the merged team of Sarah Fisher and Ed Carpenter.[13] Under this new team banner, Newgarden started 2015 strong, finishing in 12th position at St. Petersburg and improving his position with each race. He earned his first Indycar Series victory at the Honda IndyCar 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.[14]

Formula One

Before re-signing with CFH Racing, Newgarden had been linked as one of the possible drivers to race for the new American Haas F1 Team which is planning its Formula One debut for the 2016 Formula One season.[15]

Racing record

Career summary

Season Series Team Races Wins Poles FLaps Podiums Points Position
2006–07 Skip Barber Southern Racer of Tomorrow LTD 12 3 3 5 10 443 2nd
2007 Skip Barber National Racer of Tomorrow LTD 14 2 3 3 4 326 6th
Skip Barber Southern Regional Run-Offs  ? 0 0 0 0 0 NC
2007–08 Skip Barber Southern Racer of Tomorrow LTD 2 0 1 1 1 61 29th
2008 Skip Barber National Racer of Tomorrow LTD 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

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 ESP
FEA
Ret		 ESP
SPR
16		 TUR
FEA
10		 TUR
SPR
23		 VAL
FEA
Ret		 VAL
SPR
26		 GBR
FEA
16		 GBR
SPR
11		 GER
FEA
18		 GER
SPR
19		 HUN
FEA
7		 HUN
SPR
Ret		 BEL
FEA
DNS		 BEL
SPR
21		 ITA
FEA
7		 ITA
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

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

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External links

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Champion
2011		 Succeeded by
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