The Headline.
IndyCar returns this weekend in Indianapolis. Including this weekend, it’ll be the postponed Indy500 in 8 weeks time.
Last Time
Embed from Getty ImagesThe IndyCar Series is back after a month break. It’s four weeks since the Genesys 300 in Fort Worth, TX. The Oval race was won by veteran Scott Dixon with a pass in the final lap and beating Simon Pagenaud by little more than a car length
Josef Newgarden was 3rd.
That race’s most exciting part was the ending. However, the race itself was a slow burner with little excitement to keep the viewer watching.
The standings look something LIKE THIS.
2019 Indianapolis Road Race
Embed from Getty ImagesThis time it’s a road race. Last year’s race was very entertaining. In the rain, Simon Pagenaud won.
The Frenchman was in the groove when the rain hit. He progressed from 6th to 1st with 17 laps to go, overtaking Scott Dixon on the penultimate lap to take the Indy Grand Prix.
In that race, rookie Felix Rosenqvist caught fire not once, but twice in the pit lane. Also there were several collisions in the first corner of several laps.
Team Penske won in 2019 with Pagenaud and has dominated this race in the past. Team Penske has won five of the last six Races.
Judging on that, the 2020 Indy GP is a much watch.
The Road to Indy500 starts here.
The season may have started last month, but with six Races before the Indy500 in eight weekends, the journey starts here.
But before then, the IndyCar Series will travel through Wisconsin, Iowa and Ohio.
That’s three Road races and two Oval races.
The six Races includes two doubleheaders. That’s races on both the 11th/12th and 17th/18th. That’s four races in little over a week.
Where & When?
Indianapolis Speedway. Grand Prix course.
12PM start Eastern // 5PM start UK.
90 Laps over 220 Miles.
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