After three accidents in the final 16 laps, Josef Newgarden won the 2023 Indy 500. In the last lap, he overtook Marcus Ericsson.
After 12 previous starts at the oval at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the veteran Team Penske driver and former series champion had never finished higher than third.
One lap remained as the race restarted when Newgarden got a massive run on 2022 Indy 500 winner Marcus Ericsson coming off Turn 2, surged ahead of him down the backstretch, and made it stay there. Since acquiring the speedway in 2019, this is Roger Penske’s first Indy 500 victory.
Who is Josef Newgarden’s wife?
Josef Newgarden is happily married to Ashley Welch. Moreover, the two have a baby boy together named Kota Nicolai Newgarden.
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Ashley was born in Atlanta, Georgia, according to starsoffline.com. Josef, who is currently 32 years old, is a few years older than her. According to reports, Ashley is the youngest member of a family of four that also includes her parents and older brother.
In an announcement made on October 7, 2018, Newgarden said that he and his longtime girlfriend Ashley Welch had gotten engaged in Japan. The couple wed in Nashville in the autumn of 2019. Newgarden’s wife Ashley gave birth to their first child on April 20, 2022.
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Ashley joined Instagram in 2012 and frequently discusses divisive subjects there. She got 4.7 thousand followers on the platform by June 2020. She previously voiced her opposition to pro-lifers in May 2019 while wearing a shirt that stated, “Not your body, not your choice.” Ashley also often backs the Black Lives Matter movement and same-sex marriages on social media.
