Firestone GP of St. Petersburg

Match date: Friday, Apr. 23 – Sunday, Apr. 25

Be aware:  1.8-mile, 14-turn short-time interval avenue circuit (clockwise) through downtown St. Petersburg, FL, plus runway of Albert Whitted Airport.

Flee distance: 100 laps (181 miles)

Firestone tire allotment: Six sets primary, four sets alternate, one additional living available for freshmen to be used in first put collectively.

Push-to-plug parameters: 150 seconds of whole time with a most single length of 15 seconds. The flee-to-plug just isn’t available on the preliminary initiate up or any restart except it occurs within the closing two laps or three minutes of a timed plug.

At-track IndyCar schedule (native/Jap Time) and broadcast microscopic print

Friday, Apr. 23

4.15-5.00pm – First put collectively – Peacock Top class

Saturday, Apr. 24

9.45-10.30am – Second put collectively – Peacock Top class

1.45-3.00pm – Qualifying – Peacock Top class

10pm – Qualifying – NBCSN

Sunday, Apr. 25

9.05-9.35am – Warm-up – Peacock Top class

12.00pm – Pre-plug – NBC Sports actions, NBCSports.com, NBC Sports actions app

12.35pm – “Drivers, initiate up your engines” – NBC, NBCSports.com, NBC Sports actions app

12.42pm – Green flag: Firestone Mountainous Prix of St. Petersburg – NBC, NBCSports.com, NBC Sports actions app

*For beefy on-track schedule, click right here

Leigh Diffey is the announcer alongside analyst Townsend Bell.

IndyCar Radio Community publicizes:  Mark Jaynes is the chief announcer alongside analyst Davey Hamilton and Slit Yeoman. Jake Request and Michael Younger are the turn announcers. The Firestone Mountainous Prix of St. Petersburg airs continue to exist network affiliates, Sirius 211, XM 205, indycar.com, indycarradio.com and the IndyCar Cell app powered by NTT DATA. All NTT IndyCar Sequence practices and qualifying will most definitely be found on indycar.com and the IndyCar Cell app, with qualifying also airing on XM 205.

Flee Notes

2020 plug winner:  Josef Newgarden (Group Penske-Chevrolet), 2h06m12.5948s, 85.572mph.

2020 NTT P1 Award winner:  Will Energy (Group Penske-Chevrolet) 61.0369sec, 106.165mph. 

Qualifying lap file:  Jordan King (Ed Chippie Racing-Chevrolet) 60.0476sec, 107.914mph, March 10, 2018 (living in Spherical 1 of qualifying)

The Firestone Mountainous Prix of St. Petersburg stands out as the 18th Indy automobile plug on the streets of St. Petersburg, relationship back to 2003. Josef Newgarden won closing year’s plug held on the streets of St. Petersburg, which became once the championship-deciding plug for the principle time.

Scott Dixon, despite initiating the plug 16 events and having 50 wins to his name, is aloof seeking his first St. Pete get rid of. His handiest results had been four runner-up finishes.

Energy (2010 and ’14), Sebastien Bourdais (2017 and ’18) and  Newgarden (2019 and ’20) are essentially the most convenient entered drivers to get rid of at St. Petersburg extra than once, though Helio Castroneves won three events (2006, ’07, ’12), while Juan Pablo Montoya won in 2015 and ’16.

Group Penske has won the pole living 10 of the previous 14 St. Petersburg races, collectively with 9 of the closing 11 poles by Energy. Diverse previous pole winners titillating this weekend consist of Bourdais (2003), Graham Rahal (2009) and Takuma Sato (2014).

Merely two drivers gain won the plug from pole – Castroneves (’07) and Energy (’10).

Group Penske has won at St. Petersburg 10 events, collectively with six of the closing 9 races with Castroneves (2012), Energy (2014), Montoya (2015-16) and Newgarden (2019-2020).

Three drivers might be making their first St. Petersburg starts this weekend – Romain Grosjean (Dale Coyne Racing with RWR-Honda), Jimmie Johnson (Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda) and Dalton Kellett (AJ Foyt Racing-Chevrolet). Despite the incontrovertible fact that a rookie, Scott McLaughlin of Group Penske-Chevrolet made his IndyCar debut on this track in closing year’s season finale.

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