Newgarden helicoptered to hospital after reportedly fainting some time after his heavy shunt at Iowa IndyCar
The Team Penske-Chevrolet ace, who dominated Race 1 at Iowa on Saturday, appeared set to do the same in Race 2, after wresting first place away from pole-sitting teammate Will Power before one-third distance and then leading 148 laps.of 300 laps, the #2 Penske appeared to ‘sit down’ on its rear right, looping the car into a spin that caused it to loop into heavy rear-end impact with the outside wall at Turn 4.
Dr. Geoff Billows, IndyCar’s Medical Director told Associated Press: “We want to send him downtown for further evaluation because we don’t have the ability to get more advanced imaging and radiographs. But he’s awake and talking to us.” “We actually went and talked to him afterwards, and then apparently after we talked with him, he exited his hauler, and he passed out or fell and hit his head.“He seemed OK here, but we were actually going to re-evaluate him on Thursday because of the level of Gs on his accelerometer.”
“Everything felt fine to me up until that point,” said Newgarden who has won four times on the Iowa oval and has led almost 1500 laps of the 0.894-mile oval. “I did have a vibration at the start of that stint but you can have – tire balance or shifting – it wasn’t diabolical. Everything felt just fine.
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