IndyCar at Road America – facts, schedule, entry list

Event date: Friday, June 10 – Sunday, June 12

Track: 4.048-mile, 14-turn permanent road course in Elkhart Lake, WI.

Race distance: 55 laps (222.64 miles)

Firestone tire allotment: Seven sets primary, four sets alternate, one additional set of primaries available to rookies for use in first practice, and five sets of wet tires.
One set of alternates per car can be used in this session and then returned to Firestone.

Push-to-pass parameters: 200 seconds of total time with a maximum of 20 seconds per single activation.

IndyCar schedule (local/Central Time) and broadcast details

Friday, June 10
3.25-4.40pm – First practice – Peacock Premium

Saturday, June 11
9.45-10.45am – Second practice – Peacock Premium
12.45-2.00pm – Qualifying – Peacock Premium
4.20-4.50pm – Final practice – Peacock Premium

Sunday, June 12
11.48am – “Drivers, start your engines”

11.55pm – Sonsio Grand Prix at Road America presented by AMR (55 laps) – NBC live

Leigh Diffey is the announcer alongside analysts Townsend Bell and James Hinchcliffe. All NTT IndyCar Series practice sessions and qualifying will stream live on Peacock Premium, the NBC’s direct-to-consumer livestreaming product, while Sonsio Grand Prix at Road America race telecast will be simulcast on the streaming service. Peacock Premium’s exclusive post-race show will be streamed following the race.

IndyCar Radio Network broadcasts: Mark Jaynes is the chief announcer alongside analyst Davey Hamilton. Nick Yeoman, Jake Query and Michael Young are the turn announcers, while Ryan Myrehn and Joel Sebastianelli are pit reporters. All IndyCar races, practices and qualifying sessions air live on network affiliates, SiriusXM 160, racecontrol.indycar.com and the IndyCar app powered by NTT DATA.

Race Notes

2021 race winner: Alex Palou (Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda).

2021 NTT P1 Award winner: Josef Newgarden (Team Penske-Chevrolet), 1min46.0168sec, 136.301mph

Qualifying lap record: Dario Franchitti (Team Green Reynard-Honda) 1min39.866sec, 145.924mph, August 2000.

The Sonsio Grand Prix presented by AMR will be the 33^rd Indy car race at Road America since 1982, and the record for wins is three, held by Mario Andretti, Michael Andretti and Emerson Fittipaldi.

Of the active drivers, Scott Dixon has two wins at Road America, while Will Power, Josef Newgarden, Alexander Rossi, Felix Rosenqvist and Alex Palou have one apiece. Newgarden has scored three poles here, while Power, Helio Castroneves, Colton Herta and Pato O’Ward have taken one each.

Thanks to Rosenqvist, Dixon and Palou, Chip Ganassi Racing have won the last three Road America races, bringing Ganassi’s total wins at the track to six, one ahead of Team Penske.

As rookies, Tatiana Calderon, Devlin DeFrancesco, Kyle Kirkwood, Callum Ilott, Christian Lundgaard and David Malukas will all be making their first IndyCar starts at Road America, although DeFrancesco, Kirkwood and Malukas have raced here in junior formulas. Simona De Silvestro, although an IndyCar veteran, will be making her first Road America start in an IndyCar, with Paretta Autosport. With De Silvestro and Calderon on the grid, it will mark the first time that two women have started an IndyCar race since De Silvestro and Pippa Mann competed in the 2015 Indy 500.