IndyCar: Josef Newgarden completes exhibition run at Charlotte roval

Two-time IndyCar champion Josef Newgarden completed his exhibition run at the Charlotte Motor Speedway roval during the NASCAR race weekend at the track.

Following the qualifying session for Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series playoff race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway roval, two-time IndyCar champion Josef Newgarden of Team Penske took to the part oval/part road course.

Newgarden completed an exhibition run around the 17-turn, 2.28-mile (3.669-kilometer) Charlotte Motor Speedway roval in Concord, North Carolina for Shell-Pennzoil, his primary sponsor for this year’s Indianapolis 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway and a longtime sponsor of Team Penske, one of two teams that compete in both IndyCar and NASCAR.

The 28-year-old Hendersonville, Tennessee native, who secured his second IndyCar championship in the last three seasons this past Sunday in the 2019 season finale at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, spent roughly 15 minutes completing laps around the track in his #2 Shell-Pennzoil Team Penske Chevrolet IndyCar.

Here is what Newgarden had to say about his run, according to Motorsport.

"“I think there was maybe another couple seconds in it but I didn’t want to make a mistake in front of everybody showing off. I wasn’t taking it easy, I can tell you that. What would have been interesting is during a normal race weekend we would have had all 24 cars go out and we would start putting down our rubber on the track. It was interesting to see the track getting better for me. It would have been the same for the NASCAR guys if they went out after me, they would have seen the track get better as well. It’s just a process you go through.”"