Josef Newgarden Offseason Videos

We will admit, the reason we became Josef Newgarden fans after meeting him in his rookie season was his Incognito videos that he shot around 3 tracks on Indycar race weekends before anyone recognized him as an Indycar driver.

Actually, that's not quite true, since our little sister, Alex, watched those 3 videos over and over and over, a lot, and as funny as they were, we were a bit burned out on Josef.

Lucky for us, he continued to make more videos over his subsequent seasons in Indycar, so now there are plenty of 'Josef videos' to choose from and Alex doesn't watch any one too many times in a row.

So it seems that this offseason Josef has some free time and lucky for all of us fans he has been making quite a few new very funny videos.

His campaign #Shirts4Sage, his public service announcement for fellow Verizon Indycar Series driver, Sage Karam, is awesome.

 

 

Fake 2016 Indycar Schedule Announcement with a very amused Katie Hargitt  and Conor Daly

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And then there's this.... we just don't know what to make of it, although it makes our dogs bark when they hear it.

 

Don't act like adele is not a therapeutic angel that can cut you right to the very core of your soul.… https://t.co/rj7qKxDbcC

— Josef Newgarden (@josefnewgarden) November 2, 2015

Josef update Fontana

Josef started 12th and finished 21st

He hadn't been running too well all race, but had moved up to 12th before getting caught in a wreck with his teammate (and boss) Ed Carpenter.

  

 

 



 Apparently since finishing poorly at Fontana Josef has to now help build his own helmets. 

My first day of work @brettkingdesign. https://t.co/dfdA0SY4Xg

— Josef Newgarden (@josefnewgarden) June 29, 2015

Indycar goes to Milwaukee next and Josef finished 5th there last year, so hopefully he can do at least that good this year!

 

post by Alexandra (age 8)

Josef update Toronto

Yaaaaay!

JOSEF WINS!

Again!

(: Two times already this season! :)

We didn't get to watch the start of the race because it was my (Josef themed) birthday party.  I had emailed him Friday and told him he better be leading when I turned on the race halfway thru...and HE WAS!!!!

 

But, my brother and I couldn't watch the last 3 laps because the rain made us nervous and we were worried he might slide.

 

 

Josef started 11th, and got a great break when the yellow came out for a crash when he was in the pits.  It gave him the lead and he drove really really great and led most of the way to the end!!!



Josef podium selfies with Filippi and Helio


 

 

Woke up this morning from a crazy dream. https://t.co/fQHoNaqEhE

— Josef Newgarden (@josefnewgarden) June 15, 2015

And what made his win even better was that his teammate, Luca Filippi finished 2nd!
It was Carpenter Fisher Hartman Racing Team's first 1 -2 finish!
 

We're headed back to Indianapolis as one very happy team! The #IndyCar15 app looks great to us right now! pic.twitter.com/QpCzCXzSsk

— CFH Racing (@CFHRIndy) June 15, 2015

 

 

-- post by Alexandra (age 8) Josef's #1 fan --

 

Josef Newgarden Update. Detroit race 1

Josef started 18th and finished 8th.

After hitting the wall in practice on Friday and causing a red flag in qualifying (that cost him his two fast laps), it was a crazy race day with lots of rain and Josef being bumped a lot on track.  It's good he could finish 8th.

Gritty race today. Ready to fight again tomorrow with the @cfhrindy. #IndyCar #Detroit

A photo posted by Josef Newgarden (@josefnewgarden) on May 30, 2015 at 6:36pm PDT

JOSEF NEWGARDEN, NO. 67 HARTMAN OIL CHEVROLET, FINISHED 8TH: “It was a good test of our perseverance and ability to fight through. I saw the Hartman Oil guys more times than I wanted to in the pits,  but they were always ready and did a great job getting me back out. When you walk away with a top 10 on a crazy day like this, it’s not too bad. It’s difficult to predict what’s going to be happening within those rain segments, but we made the best calls we could at the time. That’s all you can do as it’s a gamble every time. Some guys it worked out for, some guys it didn’t. We obviously want to win, but getting a Top 10 is something we can be happy for today and go try and win a race tomorrow.” -- from the CFH Racing page



It's his fifth Top Ten finish in 7 races this season.
He is still 6th in Indycar season points.


-- post by Alexandra (age 7) Josef's #1 fan --

Josef Update. GP of Indy

Josef's GP of Indy went ugly in the first turn.

Alex does not like to do these posts after he has a bad race, so we will make it brief.

Josef qualified 12th and finished 20th.

Josef got caught up in a first turn crash started by Helio (we still love him though).  All he needed was for a yellow to come out so that he could catch up to the end of the field, but just like last year's GP of Indy, the yellow never came for him and he ended up going a lap down.

Luckily he is still 7th in Indycar season points.

And now moving on to the Indy 500.

Hopefully Ed Carpenter can share some of his secrets on winning the pole with Josef (Ed has won the last two Indy 500 poles).

Good Luck in Indy 500 Qualifying Josef!

Josef Update. GP of Alabama

Josef started 5th and finished

 

FIRST!!!!!!!

Josef completed another great qualifying, this week at Barber Motorsports Park for the Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama. He made it out of round 1 group 1 with the third fastest time a 1:07.2853 (123.058 mph) He advanced to the Firestone Fast 6 for the second race in a row and ended up starting 5th.
He passed 3 cars right away and was up to second behind Helio.
He took over the lead when Helio had a long pit stop.

Josef led the most laps of the race and is now 4th place in the Indycar points!!!!


Another Video with Josef
One on One Interview with USA Today.


Time to start working on the 2015 'Josef wardrobe'
for the Month of May! 

Josef is driving the Century 21 Number 21 car like he did at the 2013 Indy 500.

 

Next up Indy Grand Prix of Indianapolis
Saturday May 9th!




GOOD JOB JOSEF!!!

Post by Alex.
(age 7)

Josef update Long Beach

Josef started 6th and finished 7th at Long Beach
for his second Top Ten of the season.

He now is 9th in the Indycar season
point standings!!!


Here is Josef talking about the Long Beach track.
 





Next up.
 Grand Prix of Alabama
at Barber Motorsports Park
where Josef finished 8th last year.

Good Luck, Josef!
(post by Alex...age 7)