Josef Newgarden flips however OK after wild INDYCAR wreck

Bob Pockrass

FOX Motorsports Insider

MADISON, Sick. — Josef Newgarden was not critically injured after his automobile went upside-down and skidded alongside the floor Sunday night time at World Broad Expertise Raceway.

Newgarden t-boned Louis Foster, whose automobile was spinning and sliding down the monitor after an accident. Pinched up subsequent to the within wall, Newgarden’s automobile launched within the air after which skidded on its automobile.

Each drivers had been seen and launched from the infield medical heart.

Arduous accidents should not uncommon for the 1.25-mile oval, generally generally known as Gateway, situated outdoors of St. Louis. Foster mentioned he had been getting up within the marbles — pellets of tire rubber that accumulate on the monitor and may trigger the automobile to lose traction — and simply received in there one time too many.

“Simply received a bit too excessive on to the darkish stuff. I had a wiggle after which I simply received into the marbles and was an entire passenger,” Foster mentioned. “At that time [I hit the wall], I bent my toe hyperlink. I simply couldn’t cease the automobile from spinning there. Clearly, a fairly scary influence for myself and Josef.

“I’m glad he’s OK.”

Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR and INDYCAR for FOX Sports activities. He has spent a long time overlaying motorsports, together with over 30 Daytona 500s, with stints at ESPN, Sporting Information, NASCAR Scene journal and The (Daytona Seaside) Information-Journal. Observe him on Twitter @bobpockrass.