Josef Newgarden's weekend at texas

 The Good Part of Josef's weekend.

 

1.  He qualified 5th and had a really strong, really neat looking Emerald green car.

2.  The Firestone 600 in Texas was rained out on Saturday night, and the neat thing about rain delays is that it gives the drivers lots of free time.  Some of them, like Josef, were really nice and went up into the stands to hang out with the fans!

Getting up in the stands with @Hinchtown and the other @IndyCar guys was AWESOME! Thanks to the fans for hanging! pic.twitter.com/yqTHnVpu8s — Josef Newgarden (@josefnewgarden) June 12, 2016

3.  Josef got really bored and silly and goofed around a lot.

He was interviewed on NBCSN with Ed Carpenter, and he gave everyone some tips about social media, and reading twitter fast.

Thanks for tuning in tonight @IndyCar peeps. The rain always ruins our fun! pic.twitter.com/w9RH0oPTQa

— Josef Newgarden (@josefnewgarden) June 12, 2016

3.  The race started on Sunday afternoon and Josef was running in the Top 5 and even leading through the first 40 laps.

 The Bad Part of Josef's weekend.

 (but it turned out a lot better than it looked)

 

While passing Conor Daly on the outside, Conor lost grip and turned sharp right into Josef.  Josef went on his side and head first into the wall.  It was very, very scary.

 

 

Back to the Good Part.

Despite it looking really, really bad,

Josef only had a fractured clavicle and a bone in his right hand.

I'm sure that he hurts a whole lot, but hopefully he will be back racing soon.

 

 

post by Alex, age 8

PS  I'm really glad I was at my violin recital and didn't see the crash live or

I would've been super scared for him. 

By the time I got home and watched it  on tape I had seen on twitter that he was basically ok. :)