Indianapolis GMR Grand Prix – facts, schedule, entry list
Event date: From Friday 13 May to Saturday 14 May
Track: 2,439 mile road course with 14 turns in Indianapolis, IN.
Race distance: 85 laps (207.315 miles)
Firestone Tire Allocation: Six sets of primary tires (with an additional set available to rookies for early testing), four sets of alternate tires and five sets of rain tires.
Push-to-pass parameters: 200 seconds of total time with a maximum single duration of 20 seconds.
IndyCar Schedule (Local Time/Eastern Time) and Broadcast Details
friday april 29
9:30-10:30 p.m. – First workout – Peacock bounty
12:45-1:45 p.m. – Second practice – Peacock bounty
4:00 p.m. – Qualifications – Peacock bounty
Saturday April 30
10h30-11h00 – Warm up – Peacock bounty
3:00 p.m. – Preparation before the race – NBC
3:39 p.m. – “Drivers, start your engines”
3:45 p.m. – Green flag: Grand Prix GMR – BNC
Leigh Diffey is the announcer alongside analysts Townsend Bell and James Hinchcliffe. All NTT IndyCar Series practices and qualifying are broadcast live on Peacock Premium, NBC’s direct-to-consumer live-streaming product, while Peacock Premium’s exclusive post-race show will air after the race.
IndyCar Radio Network broadcasts: Mark Jaynes is the lead announcer alongside analyst Davey Hamilton. Nick Yeoman, Jake Query and Michael Young are the turn announcers, while Ryan Myrehn and Rob Blackman are the pit reporters. All IndyCar races, practices and qualifying sessions are broadcast live on network affiliates, SiriusXM 160, racecontrol.indycar.com and the IndyCar app powered by NTT DATA.
Race notes
Winner of the 2021 race: Rinus VeeKay (Ed Carpenter Racing-Chevrolet).
2021 pole winner: Romain Grosjean (Dale Coyne Racing-Honda), 69.4396sec, 126.447mph.
Qualifying lap record: Will Power (Team Penske-Chevrolet) 67.7044sec, 129.687mph, 2017 during Q3.
It will be the 12and IndyCar racing held on the IMS road circuit, including all Indy Grands Prix, the 2020 Harvest GP double-header and the 2021 Gallagher Grand Prix). Will Power has won five times at this course, Simon Pagenaud three times while Scott Dixon, Josef Newgarden and Rinus VeeKay have each won once.
In qualifying, Power took five poles, while Pato O’Ward, Grosjean, VeeKay, Felix Rosenqvist, Pagenaud and Sebastian Saavedra each had one.
In terms of teams, Penske has won eight of 11 races on the IMS road course, while the other three have been won by Chip Ganassi Racing, Ed Carpenter Racing and, in the inaugural 2014 event, what was then known as Schmidt Peterson Motorsports but is now Arrow McLaren SP.
Josef Newgarden could land the $1 million PeopleReady Force For Good Challenge prize by winning on Saturday, as it would complete his winning streak on an oval, a street course and a road course in the same season. The PeopleReady award would grant him a $500,000 bonus and a $500,000 matching donation to his chosen charities, namely Wags and Walk Nashville and SeriousFun Children’s Network.
Five of the six rookies – Tatiana Calderon, Devlin DeFrancesco, Callum Ilott, Kyle Kirkwood and David Malukas – will all make their first IndyCar starts at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The sixth rookie, Christian Lundgaard of Rahal Letterman Lanigan-Honda, will make his second start, as it was the location of his IndyCar debut last August, when he qualified fourth.
2022 Indianapolis GMR Grand Prix entry list
No. | Driver | Hometown | car name | team engine |
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2 | Joseph Newgarden | Nashville, TN | The PPG Penske Team | Team Penske-Chevrolet |
3 | Scott McLaughlin | Christchurch, New Zealand | Snap-on Team Penske | Team Penske-Chevrolet |
4 | Dalton Kellet | Stouffville, Canada | K-Line / AJ Foyt Racing | AJ Foyt Enterprises-Chevrolet |
5 | Pato O’Ward | Monterrey, Mexico | Arrow McLaren SP | Arrow McLaren SP-Chevrolet |
06 | Helio Castroneves | Sao Paulo, Brazil | AutoNation / SiriusXM | Meyer Shank Racing-Honda |
6 | Juan Pablo Montoya | Bogotá – Colombia | Arrow McLaren SP | Arrow McLaren SP-Chevrolet |
7 | Felix Rosenqvist | Varnamo, Sweden | Vuse Arrow McLaren SP | Arrow McLaren SP-Chevrolet |
8 | Marcus Ericsson | Kumla, Sweden | Huski Chocolate Chip Ganassi Racing | Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda |
9 | Scott Dixon | Auckland, New Zealand | PNC Bank Chip Ganassi Racing | Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda |
ten | Alex Palou | Barcelona, Spain | NTT Ganassi Racing data chip | Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda |
11 | Tatiana Calderon (D) | Bogotá – Colombia | ROKiT / AJ Foyt Racing | AJ Foyt Enterprises-Chevrolet |
12 | Will | Toowoomba, Australia | The Verizon Penske Team | Team Penske-Chevrolet |
14 | Kyle Kirkwood (R) | Jupiter, Florida | ROKiT / AJ Foyt Racing | AJ Foyt Enterprises-Chevrolet |
15 | Graham Rahal | New Albany, Ohio | Fifth Third Bank | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing-Honda |
18 | David Malukas (R) | Chicago, Ill. | HMD | Dale Coyne Racing with HMD Motorsports-Honda |
20 | Conor Daly | Noblesville, Indiana | BitNile | Ed Carpenter Racing-Chevrolet |
21 | Rinus VeeKay | Hoofddorp, Netherlands | build tomorrow | Ed Carpenter Racing-Chevrolet |
26 | Colton Herta | Valencia, California | gainbridge | Andretti Autosport with Agajanian-Honda curb |
27 | Alexandre Rossi | City of Nevada, California | NAPA Auto Parts / AutoNation | Andretti Autosport-Honda |
28 | Romain Grosjean | Geneva, Switzerland | Indiana Gleaners Food Bank / DHL | Andretti Autosport-Honda |
29 | Devlin DeFrancesco (D) | Toronto, Canada | PowerTap | Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport-Honda |
30 | Christian Lundgaard (R) | Hedensted, Denmark | Shield Cleansers | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing-Honda |
45 | Jack Harvey | Bassingham, United Kingdom | Hy Vee | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing-Honda |
48 | jimmy johnson | El Cajon, California | Carvana Chip Ganassi Racing | Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda |
51 | Takuma Sato | Tokyo, Japan | ODT Nurtec | Dale Coyne Racing with RWR-Honda |
60 | Simon Pagenaud | Montmorillon, France | AutoNation / SiriusXM | Meyer Shank Racing-Honda |
77 | Callum Ilott (R) | Cambridge, United Kingdom | Juncos Hollinger Racing | Juncos Hollinger Racing-Chevrolet |
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