2022 IndyCar Series

The 2022 NTT IndyCar Series is set to be the 111th official championship season of American open wheel racing and the 27th season under IndyCar Series sanction. The premier event will be the 2022 Indianapolis 500. It will be the third year under Penske management after they took over in late 2019. The season will begin February 27th with a 10-bell salute to Al Unser at the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg.

2022 IndyCar season
NTT IndyCar Series
Season
Races17
Start dateFebruary 27
End dateSeptember 11
Awards
Álex Palou, the reigning 2021 champion

Background

Álex Palou enters the season as the reigning 2021 Indycar Series champion. Palou won three races in 2021. Hélio Castroneves is the reigning Indianapolis 500 winner, beginning his first full-time season in Indycar since 2017.

2022 is scheduled to be the final season for the 2.2-litre V6 twin-turbocharged engine package that debuted in 2012. A new 2.4-liter V6 twin-turbocharged hybrid engine formula is set to be introduced in 2023, integrated into Indycar's current spec-series Dallara chassis.

Confirmed entries

The following teams, entries, and drivers have been announced to compete in the 2022 NTT IndyCar Series season. All teams use a spec Dallara IR18 chassis with universal aero kit and Firestone tires.

Team Engine No. Driver(s) Round(s)
A. J. Foyt Enterprises Chevrolet 4 Dalton Kellett[1] All
14 Kyle Kirkwood[2][3]  R  All
Andretti Autosport Honda 26 Colton Herta[4][5][6] All
27 Alexander Rossi[7] All
28 Romain Grosjean[8] All
Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport 29 Devlin DeFrancesco[9]  R  All
Arrow McLaren SP Chevrolet 5 Pato O'Ward[10][11] All
7 Felix Rosenqvist[12][13] All
Chip Ganassi Racing Honda 8 Marcus Ericsson[14] All
9 Scott Dixon[15] All
10[16][17] Álex Palou[12] All
48 Jimmie Johnson[15] 1, 3–10, 13–14, 16–17
Tony Kanaan[18][19] 2, 11–12, 15
TBA[20] 6
Dale Coyne Racing with Rick Ware Racing Honda 51 Takuma Sato[21] All
Dreyer & Reinbold Racing Chevrolet 23 Santino Ferrucci[22] 6
24 Sage Karam[22] 6
Ed Carpenter Racing Chevrolet 20 Ed Carpenter[23] 2, 6, 11–12, 15
TBA[23] 1, 3–5, 7–10, 13–14, 16–17
21 Rinus VeeKay[24] All
Juncos Hollinger Racing[25] Chevrolet 77 Callum Ilott[26]  R  All
Meyer Shank Racing Honda 06 Hélio Castroneves[27] All
60 Simon Pagenaud[28] All
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Honda 15 Graham Rahal[29] All
30 Christian Lundgaard[30]  R  All
45 Jack Harvey[31] All
Team Penske Chevrolet 2 Josef Newgarden[32] All
3 Scott McLaughlin[33] All
12 Will Power[32] All
R Eligible for Rookie of the Year

Driver changes

Team changes

Schedule
Rd. Date Race name Track Location
1 February 27 Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg  R  Streets of St. Petersburg St. Petersburg, Florida
2 March 20 Genesys 600  O  Texas Motor Speedway Fort Worth, Texas
3 April 10[41] Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach  R  Streets of Long Beach Long Beach, California
4 May 1 Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama  R  Barber Motorsports Park Birmingham, Alabama
5 May 14 GMR Grand Prix  R  Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course Speedway, Indiana
6 May 29 106th Running of the Indianapolis 500  O  Indianapolis Motor Speedway
7 June 5 Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix  R  Belle Isle Street Circuit Detroit, Michigan
8 June 12 REV Group Grand Prix at Road America  R  Road America Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin
9 July 3 Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio  R  Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Lexington, Ohio
10 July 17 Honda Indy Toronto  R  Exhibition Place Toronto, Ontario
11 July 23 Hy-VeeDeals.com 250  O  Iowa Speedway[42] Newton, Iowa
12 July 24 Hy-Vee Salute to Farmers 300
13 July 30 TBA  R  Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course Speedway, Indiana
14 August 7 Big Machine Music City Grand Prix  R  Nashville Street Circuit Nashville, Tennessee
15 August 20 Bommarito Automotive Group 500  O  World Wide Technology Raceway Madison, Illinois
16 September 4 Grand Prix of Portland  R  Portland International Raceway Portland, Oregon
17 September 11 Firestone Grand Prix of Monterey  R  WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca Monterey, California
O Short oval/Superspeedway
R Road/street course

Schedule changes
  • On August 19, 2021, it was confirmed that the Iowa Speedway would return to the schedule.[42]
  • On September 19, 2021, the full schedule was released. The changes included Texas and Detroit becoming single races, rather than doubleheaders, and a return to Toronto, having been removed from both the 2020 and the 2021 schedules due to travel restrictions from the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • St Petersburg was returned to the opening race of the season and will be run in February, marking the earliest season start since 2000.
  • Texas was moved to the 2nd race of the season, due to be held on March 20.
  • Long Beach returned to its traditional date in April, having been moved to September the previous season.
  • On November 3, 2021, the Detroit City Council and Penske Entertainment reached an agreement to move the Detroit Grand Prix back to the downtown streets around The Renaissance Center, making the 2022 event the final time IndyCar will race at Belle Isle.[43]

See also

Footnotes

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