Josef Newgarden crashes on Road America as his Indycar season goes from bad to worse


Josef Newgarden's horrible career in the 2025 Indycar season continues. It Team Penske The driver took off from the Xpel Grand Prix to Road America on the 30th of 55 on Sunday, June 22.

The winner of the twice Indy 500 lost control of his car in turn 14 after a little wide. The shift had been shown to be complicated for many drivers this weekend, with Scott McLaughlin, Santino Ferrucci and more having problems to the right downhill in practice 2 on Saturday.

Josef Newgarden He lost the back of the car to the left strip at the exit, turned along the track and entered the tires of the tires on the right side. The left back of its number 2 Chevy took the majority of the impact, and the rear wing was destroyed.

His car's steering arm was also broken and the car was crab. But since Newgarden had crashed a few meters from the entrance to the pit, he was able to return to his crew in his crew in the crew.

The mechanics immediately started repairing work in the car. However, Josef Newgarden was requested shortly to get out of the cabin when the real damage was evaluated. He also had a furry moment before his degree when he tried to overcome his teammate Scott McLaughlin. The two drivers left the track, giving Alex Palou a free pass through P9.

For the team's Penske driver, his last accident was a continuation of the mess that he had at the Bommarito Automotive Group 500 a week ago. He ran for WWTR before, unfortunately, he crashed against a Foster Louis Foster.

The XPEL Grand Prix of 2025 in Road America was marked for precautionary periods from the beginning. David Malukas collided with Christian Lundgaard in Volta 1, damaging his car's nose.

Within the next 10 laps, Robert Shwartzman crashed against tire barriers in the corner of CanadaAnd shortly afterwards, Sting Ray Robb lost control of his car while trying to make an evasive maneuver to avoid colliding with Marcus Armstrong.

As Josef Newgarden got a second shot at Indycar Road America at the rating after the Scott Dixon penalty

Josef Newgarden at the Xpel Grand Prix in Road America - Source: GettyJosef Newgarden at the Xpel Grand Prix in Road America - Source: Getty
Josef Newgarden at the Xpel Grand Prix in Road America – Source: Getty

Josef Newgarden had a disaster in the first classification round at Road America on Saturday, June 21. The time of the Thinking Driver of the team of 1: 44,9876 was not good enough for the first 6 of Group 1 when the round ended in P7.

But,, Scott DixonThat he had advanced to the fast 12 of the same group, received a penalty shortly after the first round was completed. Indycar found him guilty of preventing Devlin Defrancesco towards the end of the session at the turn 11-12.

Consequently, the series officials sent him to the back of the group of 13 drivers, and Newgarden was promoted from P7 to P6. However, the champion of the Indycar twice could not make good use of the promotion in Round 2. His best vault time of 1: 45,2834 was good enough for only P10 among the 12 drivers in Round 2.