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Indy 500 2012: Why Josef Newgarden Could Shock the Rest of the Field

Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing driver Josef Newgarden knows he's not the biggest name in the IZOD IndyCar Series, but the 21-year-old Nashville native has no problem making light of it.In a video from last month's Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, Newgarden went incognito as a fan interviewer, asking race attendees if they had heard of last year's Indy Lights champion. Most had no idea that they were saying "no" to his face, but the young driver took it in stride.Come Monday morning, there's a good chance that they'll know who he is.Newgarden and SFHR, known to many in the IndyCar paddock as "the little team that could" for its resilience and respectable results despite a persistent lack of funding, qualified seventh for Sunday's 96th running o...

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