Josef Newgarden

Newgarden emotionally opens up on his IndyCar rule breach at St. Pete: “I want to be held accountable for what I did”

Lucrezia Costa5 months ago5 months ago011 mins

The biggest cheating scandal in years has hit IndyCar in the past few days, following the disqualification of Josef Newgarden and Scott McLaughlin from the St. Petersburg round. Team Penske was in fact caught manipulating the overtake software system, with the two drivers able to use push to pass at all race starts and restarts….

Newgarden and McLaughlin disqualified from the IndyCar season opener as Team Penske “manipulated the overtake system”

James O'Connor5 months ago5 months ago08 mins

In an absolutely extraordinary development, Josef Newgarden (P1) and Scott McLaughlin (P3) have been disqualified from the opening round of the 2024 IndyCar season that took place in St. Pete almost 7 weeks ago. During morning warmup ahead of the Long Beach race last Sunday, IndyCar officials had spotted that something was amiss, leading to…

Long Beach GP | IndyCar Qualifying | Rosenqvist takes pole by 0.004s from Power in thrilling qualifying

James O'Connor5 months ago5 months ago05 mins

Round 1, Group 1 Felix Rosenqvist posted the first time on a 1:10.5910, which was beaten seconds later by Will Power by seven hundredths. The Australian led the way on the banker laps, logging a 1:07.2883. Rosenqvist (1:07.2956), Herta (1:07.3004), Palou, Rasmussen and Rahal completed the top 6 as all the drivers put the alternates…

Long Beach GP | IndyCar FP2 Report | Dominant Andretti 1-2 as Power crashes out

Lucrezia Costa5 months ago5 months ago06 mins

The second practise session of the weekend is underway at Long Beach under a very cloudy sky. Canapino is the first driver to end up in the runoff zone at Turn 1 on his earliest attempt on cold tyres, while Lundgaard goes on tops as the first driver in the 1:10s. He is joined shortly…

O’Ward tops IndyCar first practice at Long Beach ahead of Team Penske’s Power and McLaughlin

Luke-John Buckle5 months ago5 months ago06 mins

Pato O’Ward topped the opening practice session for Arrow McLaren ahead of the Team Penske pair Scott McLaughlin and Will Power. Felix Rosenqvist set the fourth-best time ahead of Josef Newgarden in a highly competitive opening outing. The first IndyCar practice session at Long Beach got underway, and many cars swarmed onto the circuit in…

Newgarden fastest from Larson as rain is the big winner on the first day of open test at IMS

James O'Connor6 months ago03 mins

Defending Indianapolis 500 winner and two-time IndyCar champion Josef Newgarden went fastest on the first day of the categories open test at IMS for Team Penske. Newgarden, who controversially won the famous race last year after a wild last lap battle with Marcus Ericsson that featured a lot of weaving, came out of the blocks…

St. Pete winner Newgarden on his dominant IndyCar victory: “It seemed simple to drive it fast”

Lucrezia Costa7 months ago7 months ago013 mins

The reigning champion of the Indy 500 began his twelfth season in IndyCar in style with a very dominant weekend in St. Petersburg. Newgarden secured on Saturday pole position with only hundreds of a second of advantage over Felix Rosenqvist in second place. The 33-year-old went on to win on the next day, leading for…

Newgarden takes dominant IndyCar win in St. Petersburg ahead of O’Ward and McLaughlin

Lucrezia Costa7 months ago7 months ago08 mins

Three Penskes in the top 4, crashes, gearboxes gone and many new faces: IndyCar is back!

Rosenqvist on close P2 in qualifying at St. Pete on debut for MSR in IndyCar: “Both cool and frustrating”

Lucrezia Costa7 months ago7 months ago04 mins

The Swedish driver began his new adventure with Meyer Shank Racing in one of the best possible ways by securing an impressive front row start, only 0.0058s away from the best lap of the first qualifying session of the year put in by Josef Newgarden. Rosenqvist impressed even before the first race with his P2,…

Josef Newgarden “crazy proud” of his team after first IndyCar pole of the season

Ewout Albrecht7 months ago7 months ago07 mins

Josef Newgarden grabbed pole position after a scintillating qualifying session, where he beat Felix Rosenqvist by just 0.0058 seconds. Before the season one of his goals was to get more pole positions, and in the dying seconds of the Fast 6 he added the pole position to his tally. He is therefore really proud of…