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XPEL Grand Prix at Road America Presented by AMR Fast Facts

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Race weekend: Friday, June 19 – Sunday, June 21

Track: Road America, a 4.014-mile, 14-turn permanent road course (clockwise), in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin

Race distance: NTT INDYCAR SERIES: 55 laps / 220.77 miles | INDY NXT by Firestone: Race 1 – 20 laps / 80.28 miles or 55 minutes; Race 2- 18 laps / 72.25 miles or 50 minutes

Push-to-pass parameters: NTT INDYCAR SERIES: 200 seconds of total time with a maximum time of 20 seconds per activation. | INDY NXT by Firestone: 65 seconds of total time.

Hybrid energy deployment parameters: Unlimited activation, with a maximum deployment of 600 kilojoules (kj) per lap

Firestone tire allotment: Six sets primary (hard/black sidewall) and five sets alternate (soft/red sidewall) to be used during the event weekend. Teams fielding a rookie driver may use one additional set of primary tires. Teams must use one set of primary and one set of new (sticker) alternate tires for at least two laps in the race. INDY NXT by Firestone: Three new sets to be used during the race weekend. Teams are permitted to use one set of carryover tires from their saved sets allotment during the first 15 minutes of practice and must start one of the two races on the set of tires used in qualifying.

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Event website: www.roadamerica.com

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2025 race winners:

NTT INDYCAR SERIES

Alex Palou (No. 10 SOLO Cup Chip Ganassi Racing Honda)

INDY NXT by Firestone

Caio Collet (No. 76 HMD Motorsports)

2025 NTT P1 Award winner:

Louis Foster (No. 45 Droplight / Desnuda Tequila Honda) 1:44.5141, 138.263 mph

2025 INDY NXT by Firestone pole winner:

Dennis Hauger (No. 28 Andretti Global) 1:52.3301, 128.642 mph

Qualifying lap record:

NTT INDYCAR SERIES

Dario Franchitti, 1:39.866, 145.924 mph, Aug. 19, 2000

INDY NXT by Firestone

Kyffin Simpson, 1:49.1028, 132.448 mph, June 17, 2023

FOX Sports telecasts: NTT INDYCAR SERIES: Practice 1, 4 p.m. ET Friday, FS2 (live); Practice 2, 11 a.m. ET Saturday, FS1 (live); Qualifying, 2 p.m. ET Saturday, FS1 (live); Warmup, 11 a.m. ET Sunday, FS1 (live); Race, 2 p.m. ET Sunday, FOX (live). Will Buxton is the play-by-play announcer for FOX’s coverage of the NTT INDYCAR SERIES, alongside analysts Townsend Bell and James Hinchcliffe. Georgia Henneberry, Kevin Lee and Jack Harvey are the pit reporters. A Spanish-language telecast will be available on FOX Deportes. | INDY NXT by Firestone: Practice 1, 3 p.m. ET Friday, FS1 (live); Qualifying, 11 a.m. ET Saturday, FS1 (live); Race 1, 12:30 p.m. ET Saturday, FS1 (live); Race 2, Noon ET Sunday, FS1. Kevin Lee is the play-by-play announcer for FOX Sports’ coverage of INDY NXT by Firestone alongside analyst Jack Harvey. Georgia Henneberry is the pit reporter.

INDYCAR Radio Powered by OnlyBulls broadcasts: Mark Jaynes is the anchor alongside driver analyst Davey Hamilton. Nick Yeoman, Jake Query and Michael Young are the turn announcers. Alex Wollf, Joel Sebastianelli and DJ Clark are the pit reporters.The XPEL Grand Prix at Road America Presented by AMR race (1:30 p.m. ET Sunday), INDY NXT by Firestone Grand Prix at Road America doubleheader (12:25 p.m. Saturday and 11:55 a.m. Sunday) and all NTT INDYCAR SERIES and INDY NXT by Firestone practices and qualifying sessions air live on network affiliates, SiriusXM INDYCAR Nation 218, indycar.com/leaderboard and the INDYCAR App powered by NTT DATA.

At-track schedule (all times Central Time):

Friday, June 19

2-2:45 p.m. – INDY NXT by Firestone Practice 1, FS1 (live)

3:05-4:20 p.m. – NTT INDYCAR SERIES Practice 1, FS2 (live)

Saturday, June 20

9-9:30 a.m. – INDY NXT by Firestone Qualifying (two groups/12 minutes each), FS1 (live)

10:05-10:55 a.m. – NTT INDYCAR SERIES Practice 2, FS1 (live)

11:31 a.m. – INDY NXT by Firestone Grand Prix at Road America Race 1 Command to Start Engines

11:36 a.m. – INDY NXT by Firestone Grand Prix at Road America Race 1 (20 laps/55 minutes), FS1 (live)

1:05-2:30 p.m. – Qualifying for the NTT P1 Award (Three rounds of knockout qualifying), FS1 (live)

Sunday, June 21

10:05-10:35 a.m. – NTT INDYCAR SERIES Warmup, FS1 (live)

11:01 a.m. – INDY NXT by Firestone Grand Prix at Road America Race 2 Command to Start Engines

11:06 a.m. – INDY NXT by Firestone Grand Prix at Road America Race 2 (18 laps/50 minutes), FS1 (live)

12:30 p.m. — Driver introductions

1 p.m. – FOX on air

1:20 p.m. –  XPEL Grand Prix at Road America Command to Start Engines

1:27 p.m. –  XPEL Grand Prix at Road America (55 laps/220.77 miles), FOX (live)

NTT INDYCAR SERIES Notes:

  • There have been five winners in the first nine NTT INDYCAR SERIES races this season. Alex Palou (Streets of St. Petersburg, Barber Motorsports Park, Streets of Long Beach and Streets of Detroit), Josef Newgarden (Phoenix Raceway, World Wide Technology Raceway), Kyle Kirkwood (Streets of Arlington), Christian Lundgaard (Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course) and Felix Rosenqvist (Indianapolis 500).
  • The XPEL Grand Prix at Road America Presented by AMR will be the 37th INDYCAR SERIES event conducted at Road America since it hosted its first INDYCAR event in 1982. Mario Andretti, Michael Andretti, Emerson Fittipaldi and Alex Palou have three wins, the most by an INDYCAR SERIES driver at the track.
  • Alex Palou’s three wins are the most by an active driver at Road America. Scott Dixon, Josef Newgarden and Will Power have each won twice at Road America. Other previous Road America winners entered include Alexander Rossi and Felix Rosenqvist.
ACTIVE RACE WINNERWINSSEASONS
Alex Palou32021, 2023, 2025
Scott Dixon22017, 2020 Race #1
Josef Newgarden22018, 2022
Will Power22016, 2024
Alexander Rossi12019
Felix Rosenqvist12020 Race #2
  • Eight drivers have won the Road America race from the pole: Mario Andretti (1983, 1984,1987), Danny Sullivan (1989), Paul Tracy (1993), Jacques Villeneuve (1995), Bruno Junqueira (2003), Sebastien Bourdais (2007), Will Power (2016) and Josef Newgarden (2018).
ACTIVE POLE WINNERPOLESSEASONS
Josef Newgarden32018, 2020 Race #1, 2021
Will Power12016
Pato O’Ward12020 Race #2
Alexander Rossi12022
Louis Foster12025
  • The driver who has gone on to win the championship has won at Road America 10 times: Mario Andretti (1984), Michael Andretti (1991), Jacques Villeneuve (1995), Alex Zanardi (1997), Cristiano da Matta (2002), Sebastien Bourdais (2007), Scott Dixon (2020) and Alex Palou (2021, 2023, 2025).
  • Scott Dixon and Will Power have competed in 13 previous races at Road America, most of any driver. Sixteen entered drivers have led laps at the track: Josef Newgarden 159, Will Power 76, Scott Dixon 70, Alexander Rossi 70, Pato O’Ward 43, Scott McLaughlin 26, Alex Palou 24, Felix Rosenqvist 20, Marcus Armstrong 5, Christian Lundgaard 5, Graham Rahal 5, Kyle Kirkwood 4, Marcus Ericsson 4, Louis Foster 3, David Malukas 2 and Kyffin Simpson 2.
  • Chip Ganassi Racing has won eight times at Road America (1997, 2001, 2017, a sweep of the 2020 doubleheader, 2021, 2023 and 2025), including five of the last seven INDYCAR SERIES races at “America’s National Park of Speed.” CGR is one of three current teams with wins at the track. Team Penske has won seven times at Road America (1989, 1992, 1993, 2016, 2018, 2022 and 2024) while Andretti Global won in 2019.
  • Rookies Caio Collet, Dennis Hauger and Mick Schumacher will race an NTT INDYCAR SERIES car at Road America for the first time this weekend. Collet won the INDY NXT race at the track in 2025.

INDY NXT by Firestone Notes:

  • The ultra-competitive INDY NXT by Firestone season continues with a doubleheader visit to Road America. Cape Motorsports Powered by ECR’s Nikita Johnson leads the point standings by just two points over HMD Motorsports’ Enzo Fittipaldi with HMD’s Tymek Kucharczyk five points back. It’s the closest margin between the top three after eight races since Linus Lundqvist, David Malukas and Kyle Kirkwood were separated by four points in 2021.
  • Group qualifying will decide the starting grid for both races at America’s National Park of Speed. Based on the best lap times from the practice session immediately preceding qualifying, the fastest driver in that session will choose which group will compete in the first of the two qualifying sessions. With 12 minutes allotted for each group (with a guarantee of one timed lap), the fastest driver between the two sessions will be awarded Race 1 pole position with the drivers who finished behind that driver, in order and in that group, occupying the odd-numbered starting positions (3, 5, 7, etc.) for the race and the drivers who finished in order from the other group occupying the even-numbered starting positions (2, 4, 6, etc.). A driver’s second best lap will be determine the pole position for Race 2. One driver and entrant championship point will be awarded to the fastest car in each qualifying group for each race.