{"id":14456,"date":"2023-05-12T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T12:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/?p=14456&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=14456"},"modified":"2023-08-25T09:12:37","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T13:12:37","slug":"indycar-gmr-grand-prix-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2023\/05\/12\/indycar-gmr-grand-prix-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"IndyCar: GMR Grand Prix Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Month of May officially kicks off this weekend, with the GMR Grand Prix at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>Here are some track facts to study before this weekend&#8217;s race:<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Track:<\/strong> Indianapolis Motor Speedway, a 2.439-mile, 14-turn clockwise road course in Speedway, Indiana<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Race distance:<\/strong> 85 laps or 207.3 miles<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Push-to-pass parameters:\u00a0<\/strong>200 seconds of total time with a maximum time of 20 seconds per activation<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Firestone tire allotment: <\/strong>Six sets primary, four sets alternate, along with one additional set available to rookie drivers for use in the Friday practice session<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>2022 race winner: Colton Herta<\/strong>, Andretti Autosport<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>2022 NTT P1 Award winner: Will Power<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; 1:09.6774<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Qualifying record: <\/strong>Will Power &#8211; 1:07.7044, 2017<\/p>\r\n<p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">14 turns. 2.439 miles. 1 historic venue.  <br><br>We&#39;re back <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IMS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@IMS<\/a>. Are you ready?  <br><br>GMR Grand Prix \u2022 Saturday, May 13 at 3:30 PM ET \u2022 NBC &amp; Peacock  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/INDYCAR?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#INDYCAR<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/INDYGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#INDYGP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C9mmRhyamo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/C9mmRhyamo<\/a><\/p>&mdash; NTT INDYCAR SERIES (@IndyCar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IndyCar\/status\/1655197599035523076?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 7, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Weekend Schedule (Eastern Standard Time)<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<p><strong>FRIDAY, MAY 12<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>9:30 A.M. &#8211; Practice #1 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peacocktv.com\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peacock<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>1 P.M. &#8211; Practice #2 &#8211; Peacock<\/p>\r\n<p>4 P.M. &#8211; Qualifying &#8211; Peacock<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>SATURDAY, MAY 13<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>11:15-11:45 A.M. &#8211; Warmup &#8211; Peacock<\/p>\r\n<p>3:45 P.M. &#8211;\u00a0 GMR Grand Prix &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NBC<\/a><\/p>\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Active Race Winners<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<p>Will Power &#8211; 5 wins (2015, 2017, 2018, 2020 Race #3 &amp; 2021 Race #2)<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Simon Pagenaud<\/strong> &#8211; 3 wins (2014, 2016 &amp; 2019)<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Scott Dixon<\/strong> &#8211; 1 win (2020 Race #1)<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Josef Newgarden<\/strong> &#8211; 1 win (2020 Race #2)<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Rinus VeeKay<\/strong> &#8211; 1 win (2021 Race #1)<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Colton Herta<\/strong> &#8211; 1 win (2022 Race #1)<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Alexander Rossi<\/strong> &#8211; 1 win (2022 Race #2)<\/p>\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Race Notes<\/b><\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Only 6 drivers have competed in every IndyCar race on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course \u2013 Scott Dixon,\u00a0Josef Newgarden,\u00a0Simon Pagenaud,\u00a0Will Power,\u00a0<strong>Graham Rahal<\/strong>,\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Takuma Sato.<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li>Team Penske has 8 wins on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020-Race 2, 2020-Race 3, 2021-Race 2). Andretti Autosport swept the races in 2022 while Ed Carpenter Racing, Chip Ganassi Racing and Arrow McLaren are the only other teams to win at the track. Ed Carpenter Racing won in 2021-Race 1 with Rinus VeeKay. Chip Ganassi Racing won with Scott Dixon in 2020-Race 1, and Arrow McLaren won the inaugural race in 2014 with Simon Pagenaud when it was known as Schmidt Peterson Motorsports.<\/li>\r\n<li>Rookie of the Year contenders <strong>Marcus Armstrong<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Agustin Canapino<\/strong>,<strong>\u00a0Benjamin Pedersen\u00a0<\/strong>and<strong>\u00a0Sting Ray Robb\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; are entered. All will race an IndyCar at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the first time.<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Milestones:<\/strong> Scott Dixon will attempt to make his 310th consecutive start, the second-longest streak in IndyCar history. Dixon will also attempt to make his 350th start with Chip Ganassi Racing.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<h5>Featured Image Credit: Joe Skibinski\/Penske Entertainment<\/h5>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Month of May officially kicks off this weekend, with the GMR Grand Prix at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Here are some track facts to study before this weekend&#8217;s race: Track: Indianapolis Motor Speedway, a 2.439-mile, 14-turn clockwise road course in Speedway, Indiana Race distance: 85 laps or 207.3 miles Push-to-pass parameters:\u00a0200 seconds of total [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4580,"featured_media":14479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1663],"tags":[1638,163],"class_list":["post-14456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indycar","category-ntt-indycar-series","tag-gmr-indy-grand-prix","tag-indycar"],"modified_by":"Nathan Reynolds","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}