User:Migiditch

IndyCar and Motorsports enthusiast

Below is my fantasy racing career which starts in 2005/06 and last to present day and includes NO FACTUAL INFORMATION of me or any racing series that is linked.

Joshua [Last Name] (born 13 February 1990) is an American-Nigerian racing driver who competes in the IndyCar Series, driving the No. 22 Dallara-Chevrolet for Team Penske. He competed in Formula One from 2010 until 2014, and again from 2017-2021, winning the 2018 Formula One World Championship with Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team. He's achieved further success in IndyCar, winning the IndyCar Championship twice, in 2015 and 2016.

Early Life and Career
Migiditch was born in Allen, Texas to an English mother and Nigerian father, shortly after he was born his family moved to Maryland, and later to Lake Arbor in Prince George's County. He began karting at the age of 9 after meeting a relative of a family friend who worked for Newman-Haas Racing in Championship Auto Racing Teams. He would go on to win minor championships in 2001, 2003 and 2004.

Junior Formulae
Migiditch would Graduate to Indy Lights in 2008, with Integra Motorsports w/ CGRT. Originally planning on running the full-time in the series, he was given an opportunity to compete in the GP2 Series alongside Indy Lights. he would officially commit on running a split schedule between GP2 and Indy Lights at the 2008 Indianapolis 500.

Honda (2008)
At the 2008 Indianapolis 500, Honda announced that Olu would become Honda Racing F1's first development driver, in which he would also become the team's test and reserve driver. He would make his Formula One race weekend debut at the 2008 British Grand Prix, driving in FP1 in place of Rubens Barrichello.

Brawn (2009)
After Honda pulled out the sport, Olu was without of a pathway to Formula One for 2009. After Ross Brawn and Nick Fry purchased the remains of Honda, Olu negotiated with Ross Brawn to remain with the team. On March 13th, 2009 Olu was announced as the flagship test, reserve and development for Brawn GP and Mercedes powered teams, including McLaren, as a result of being absorbed into the McLaren Young Drivers programme.

McLaren (2013-2014)
As a McLaren Young Driver, he would be bought out of his Force India contract to join the Woking outfit for the 2013 season after the departure of Lewis Hamilton, parterning up with Jenson Button. The 2013 season started in great fashion, with a second place on his debut in the Australian Grand Prix, finishing 1.239 seconds behind Kimi Räikkönen. In the end of the 2013 season, Olu just didn't have enough to overtake Vettel in the championship, winning the last 3 races but coming up 8 points short of becoming champion. Olu would call his defeat a "failure" and "another missing one [championship]."

Mercedes (2017-2018)
After Nico Rosberg's shock retirement from Formula One at the end of the 2016 championship, Mercedes sought after a high caliber driver. Olu's name was thrown around alongside Pascal Wehrlein and Valtteri Bottas. At the time Olu was in the process of finalizing a deal in IndyCar for 2017 to remain at Team Penske, but on January 8th it was confirmed that Olu would join the German giant for the 2017 season, joining then 3-time World Champion Lewis Hamilton, creating the first ever all-black driver pairing in the sport's history.

Alfa Romeo (2019-2021)
In the aftermath of the drama at the German, Japanese and Russian Grand Prix's, Mercedes ended talks with Olu to extend his contract, leaving him jobless for the next season.

After winning the 2021 Russian Grand Prix, Alfa Romeo announced that Olu would not return to the team in 2022. Olu would go on to finish his final Formula One race at the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in 3rd. After the controversial finish Olu would go on to make several remarks about the finish calling it "ridiculous", "a joke", "a disgrace to the sport", and wrapping up with "maybe I made the right choice to leave Formula One."

These comments made fans speculate that Olu was retiring, but he confirmed that he wanted to 'pursue other opportunities elsewhere'.

At the 2023 Las Vegas Grand Prix, Olu officially revealed that he had retired from Formula One, but wouldn't be against returning 'in an Alonso' type of way.

Dreyer & Reinbold (2011)
Migiditc would partake in a post season test with Conquest Racing shortly after the 2010 IndyCar season,

Personal Life
Migiditch still lives in his childhood home in Lake Arbor, alongside Mooresville, North Carolina, where Team Penske is headquartered.

Olu is a avid supporter of Chelsea F.C., FC Bayern Munich, the Baltimore Ravens, D.C. United and Washington Wizards

Olu is currently in a relationship with Actress Miranda Cosgrove.

In popular culture
Olu has appeared in TV shows and Movies on occasion as himself, such as Celebrity Family Feud and American Ninja Warrior with fellow IndyCar drivers, Top Gear and it's Amazon Prime Video successor The Grand Tour, and Amazon developed The Boys.

Olu has frequently been a guest on Off-Track with Hinch and Rossi, a podcast hosted by former IndyCar driver and NBC commentator James Hinchcliffe and current IndyCar star Alexander Rossi.

Olu partakes in commentary from time-to-time, being a special color commentator on Peacock's Indy NXT coverage for select races in 2023, before joining the NXT booth full-time in 2024.

Olu provided analysts for F1TV's coverage of the Las Vegas Grand Prix in 2023.

Formula One results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

IndyCar Series

 * 1 The Las Vegas Indy 300 was abandoned after Dan Wheldon died from injuries sustained in a 15-car crash on lap 11.