IndyCar’s REV Group GP at Road America – facts and figures

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Track: 4.014-mile road course near Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.

Race distance: 55 laps / 220.77 miles

Push-to-pass parameters: 200 seconds with a maximum single duration of 20sec

Firestone tires per entry: Eight sets primaries, four sets of alternates. Teams must use one set of primary and one set of alternate tires for at least two laps in the race.

2018 race winner: Josef Newgarden (Team Penske-Chevrolet).
Newgarden, Scott Dixon in 2017 (Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda), Will Power in ’16 (Penske-Chevrolet) and Sebastien Bourdais in ’07 (Newman/Haas-Cosworth) are the only drivers in this year’s race who have won at Road America.
Mario Andretti, Michael Andretti and Emerson Fittipaldi have each won the Indy car race three times, although Andretti also won twice when the premier open-wheel race at Road America was Formula 5000.

2018 pole winner: Newgarden, 1min43.2026sec, 140.020mph.
Of the active drivers, Bourdais holds the most poles here (two – 2004 and ’07), with Power taking pole in ’16, and Newgarden last year. The record number of Indy car poles here is held by Danny Sullivan (four), but Mario Andretti has also scored four – two in Formula 5000 and two in Indy cars.

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

Previous winners

Formula 5000
1974          Mario Andretti, Vel’s Parnelli Jones Racing, Lola-Chevrolet
1975          Mario Andretti, Vel’s Parnelli Jones Racing, Lola-Chevrolet
1976          Jackie Oliver, Phoenix Racing, Shadow-Dodge
1976          Brian Redman, Haas/Hall Racing, Lola-Chevrolet
1976          Vern Schuppan, Jorgensen Steel, Lola-Chevrolet

Indy cars

1982          Hector Rebaque, Forsythe Racing, March-Cosworth
1983          Mario Andretti, Newman/Haas Racing, Lola-Cosworth
1984          Mario Andretti, Newman/Haas Racing, Lola-Cosworth
1985          Jacques Villeneuve (Sr.), Canadian Tire Racing, March-Cosworth
1986          Emerson Fittipaldi, Patrick Racing, March-Cosworth
1987          Mario Andretti, Newman/Haas Racing, Lola-Chevrolet
1988          Emerson Fittipaldi, Patrick Racing, Lola-Chevrolet
1989          Danny Sullivan, Penske Racing, Penske-Chevrolet
1990          Michael Andretti, Newman/Haas Racing, Lola-Chevrolet
1991          Michael Andretti, Newman/Haas Racing, Lola-Chevrolet
1992          Emerson Fittipaldi, Penske Racing, Penske-Chevrolet-Ilmor
1993          Paul Tracy, Penske Racing, Penske-Chevrolet-Ilmor
1994          Jacques Villeneuve, Forsythe/Green Racing, Reynard-Ford-Cosworth
1995          Jacques Villeneuve, Team Green, Reynard-Ford-Cosworth
1996          Michael Andretti, Newman/Haas Racing, Lola-Ford-Cosworth
1997          Alex Zanardi, Chip Ganassi Racing, Reynard-Honda
1998          Dario Franchitti, Team Green, Reynard-Honda
1999          Christian Fittipaldi, Newman/Haas Racing, Swift-Ford-Cosworth
2000          Paul Tracy, Team Green, Reynard-Honda
2001          Bruno Junqueira, Chip Ganassi Racing, Lola-Toyota
2002          Cristiano da Matta, Newman/Haas Racing, Lola-Toyota
2003          Bruno Junqueira, Newman/Haas Racing, Lola-Ford-Cosworth
2004          Alex Tagliani, Rocketsports, Lola-Ford-Cosworth
2006          AJ Allmendinger, Forsythe Racing, Lola-Cosworth
2007          Sebastien Bourdais, Newman/Haas Racing, Panoz-Cosworth
2016          Will Power, Team Penske, Dallara-Chevrolet
2017          Scott Dixon, Chip Ganassi Racing, Dallara-Honda
2018          Josef Newgarden, Team Penske, Dallara-Chevrolet

Alex Tagliani scored his and Rocketsports' only win in Indy cars at Road America in 2004.

Photo by: Loran Hygema