Rookie Josef Newgarden kept a cool head Friday as the IZOD IndyCar Series turned up the temperature at Iowa Speedway with a new qualifying format that featured heat races to decide starting positions instead of the typical two-lap average qualifying format. Newgarden, in the No. 67 Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing (SFHR) Dallara/Honda/Firestone car, drove safely [...]

The most frequent question reporters ask IZOD IndyCar Series rookie driver Josef Newgarden is how a kid from Nashville ended up at the elite level of open wheel racing instead of in the fendered-world of NASCAR that dominates his home state of Tennessee. Newgarden’s answer is typically very simple: he saw a challenge and he [...]

After climbing out of his No. 67 Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing (SFHR) Dallara/Honda/Firestone car at the Milwaukee IndyFest Josef Newgarden had one thing to say: “I’m ready to go to Iowa.” Iowa is the next race on the IZOD IndyCar Series schedule, and Newgarden is ready to get there. He had a strong start from [...]

Josef Newgarden showed the mark of a true competitor at the Milwaukee Mile on Friday. After two lightning-quick practice sessions and a solid qualifying effort he was left disappointed and wanting more because of what could have been, not just content with his more than respectable effort as a rookie driver. Newgarden qualified his No. [...]

Josef Newgarden is comfortable driving fast on four wheels in his Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing (SFHR) Indy car, but on a recent visit to Milwaukee he had a change of pace and cruised the downtown streets with the Milwaukee Police Department’s bicycle patrol. Newgarden and SFHR return to Milwaukee this weekend for the Milwaukee IndyFest [...]

Texas Motor Speedway proved too tough to tame for many IZOD IndyCar Series veterans in the Firestone 550, but rookie driver Josef Newgarden kept his head above water and brought his car home to a 13th-place finish. Newgarden’s No. 67 Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing Dallara/Honda/Firestone car started from the 25th position due to an engine [...]

With the third-fastest time in the first practice session for the Firestone 550, Josef Newgarden was setting a blistering pace in his Honda-powered car. Unfortunately, an engine issue didn’t allow the rookie to qualify, and he will start 25th. In the closing minutes of morning practice at Texas Motor Speedway, Newgarden’s No. 67 Sarah Fisher [...]

When the IZOD IndyCar Series stables its high-powered horses in Texas this weekend for the Firestone 550, Josef Newgarden and Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing (SFHR) will be working to turn the tables on a string of unfortunate events that has kept the team from a high finish the past two weekends. SFHR and Newgarden come [...]

Every rookie IZOD IndyCar Series driver has to earn his racing stripes through hard work and patience, and Josef Newgarden received a lesson in the latter at the Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix Sunday. Newgarden started from the 13th position and immediately began saving fuel to work toward a race strategy that would put him [...]

It’s not easy to keep your head in the game when you haven’t slept much since the biggest race of your life and you’re fighting off a pesky summer cold and sore throat, but that is exactly what Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing’s rookie driver Josef Newgarden is trying to do. After racing in his first [...]