2020 IndyCar Grand Prix

2020 GMR Grand Prix

Race details
2nd round of the 2020 IndyCar Series season
Date	July 4, 2020
Official name	GMR Grand Prix
Location	Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Course	Permanent racing facility 2.439 mi / 3.925 km
Distance	80 laps 195.12 mi / 314.02 km
Pole position
Driver	Will Power (Team Penske)
Time	1:10.1779
Fastest lap
Driver	Scott Dixon (Chip Ganassi Racing)
Time	1:11.751 (on lap 49 of 80)
Podium
First	Scott Dixon (Chip Ganassi Racing)
Second	Graham Rahal (Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing)
Third	Simon Pagenaud (Team Penske)

The 2020 GMR Grand Prix, was an IndyCar Series event scheduled for July 4, 2020 and was the second of fourteen rounds of the 2020 IndyCar Series Season. It was originally scheduled for May 9, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result of the postponement, the race was run as a double-header event with the NASCAR Xfinity Series, with IndyCar sharing the card with the Shell 150 NASCAR Xfinity Series event, the day before the NASCAR Cup Series Big Machine Hand Sanitizer 400. The race was also reduced from 85 laps to 80 laps to compensate for the compacted schedule, and was the first of two meetings held on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course. The second road course meeting was held October 2–4 as part of the Harvest Auto Racing Classic featuring the Intercontinental GT Challenge. It was the inaugural NASCAR meeting race for INDYCAR.

Qualifying

Qualifying was held Friday, July 3, with the first session beginning at 4:30 p.m. EST. With temperatures much higher than the normal May date the event had normally been run at, qualifying times were slower than in years previous. Will Power qualified on pole position with a time of 1:10.1779, besting Jack Harvey and Colton Herta. Rookie Oliver Askew set the fastest time of the day in the second round of qualifying with a 1:09.8780, but wore out his tires in doing so, causing him to only manage 5th place in the Firestone Fast 6 session.

Key	Meaning
R	Rookie
W	Past winner

Pos	No.	Name	Grp.	Round 1	Round 2	Fast 6
1	12	Will Power  W	2	1:10.2548	1:10.1313	1:10.1779
2	60	Jack Harvey	2	1:10.5157	1:10.0238	1:10.3653
3	88	Colton Herta	2	1:10.4114	1:10.0985	1:10.5197
4	15	Graham Rahal	2	1:10.5647	1:10.0707	1:10.5844
5	7	Oliver Askew  R	1	1:10.5306	1:09.8780	1:10.8404
6	1	Josef Newgarden	1	1:10.6188	1:10.1420	No Time
7	9	Scott Dixon	2	1:10.5000	1:10.1990
8	20	Conor Daly	1	1:10.5658	1:10.2169
9	10	Felix Rosenqvist	1	1:10.5558	1:10.2310
10	59	Max Chilton	1	1:10.5465	1:10.3055
11	27	Alexander Rossi	2	1:10.5947	1:10.3426
12	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay	1	1:10.5880	1:10.5764
13	5	Patricio O'Ward	1	1:10.7333
14	8	Marcus Ericsson	2	1:10.6287
15	18	Santino Ferrucci	1	1:10.7902
16	45	Spencer Pigot	2	1:10.6350
17	30	Takuma Sato	1	1:10.8853
18	21	Rinus VeeKay  R	2	1:10.7070
19	29	James Hinchcliffe	1	1:11.1478
20	22	Simon Pagenaud  W	2	1:10.7438
21	55	Álex Palou  R	1	1:11.1815
22	26	Zach Veach	2	1:11.2762
23	24	Sage Karam	1	1:11.7774
24	4	Charlie Kimball	2	1:11.4026
25	98	Marco Andretti	1	1:12.0513
26	14	Dalton Kellett  R	2	1:11.5876

Race

Pos	No.	Driver	Team	Engine	Laps	Time/Status	Pit Stops	Grid	Laps Led	Pts.1
1	9	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	80	1:41:59.3232	3	7	26	51
2	15	Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Honda	80	+19.946	2	4	18	41
3	22	Simon Pagenaud  W	Team Penske	Chevrolet	80	+20.564	3	20		35
4	88	Colton Herta	Andretti Harding Steinbrenner Racing	Honda	80	+25.088	3	3		32
5	21	Rinus VeeKay  R	Ed Carpenter Racing	Chevrolet	80	+25.636	3	18		30
6	8	Marcus Ericsson	Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	80	+25.713	3	14	1	29
7	1	Josef Newgarden	Team Penske	Chevrolet	80	+31.897	3	6	4	27
8	5	Patricio O'Ward	Arrow McLaren SP	Chevrolet	80	+33.836	3	13		24
9	18	Santino Ferrucci	Dale Coyne Racing w/Vasser-Sullivan	Honda	80	+43.046	2	15		22
10	30	Takuma Sato	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Honda	80	+44.891	4	17		20
11	29	James Hinchcliffe	Andretti Autosport	Honda	80	+46.167	3	19		19
12	20	Conor Daly	Ed Carpenter Racing	Chevrolet	80	+49.977	2	8		18
13	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	Honda	80	+50.489	3	12		17
14	26	Zach Veach	Andretti Autosport	Honda	80	+52.217	4	22	1	17
15	10	Felix Rosenqvist	Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	80	+56.688	3	9		15
16	59	Max Chilton	Carlin	Chevrolet	80	+1:00.231	3	10		14
17	60	Jack Harvey	Meyer Shank Racing	Honda	80	+1:03.845	3	2	1	14
18	4	Charlie Kimball	A. J. Foyt Enterprises	Chevrolet	80	+1:05.519	3	24		12
19	55	Álex Palou  R	Dale Coyne Racing w/Team Goh	Honda	80	+1:06.478	3	21		11
20	12	Will Power  W	Team Penske	Chevrolet	80	+1:11.612	3	1	28	14
21	14	Dalton Kellett  R	A. J. Foyt Enterprises	Chevrolet	79	+1 Lap	3	26		9
22	98	Marco Andretti	Andretti Herta Autosport w/ Marco Andretti & Curb-Agajanian	Honda	79	+1 Lap	3	25		8
23	24	Sage Karam	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	Chevrolet	79	+1 Lap	3	23		7
24	45	Spencer Pigot	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing w/Citrone/Buhl Autosport	Honda	74	Mechanical	2	16	1	7
25	27	Alexander Rossi	Andretti Autosport	Honda	41	Mechanical	2	11		5
26	7	Oliver Askew  R	Arrow McLaren SP	Chevrolet	34	Contact	1	5		5

Race statistics

Average speed: 114.789 mph (184.735 km/h)

Lead changes: 10

Lap leader breakdown
From lap	To lap	Total laps	Driver
1	16	16	Will Power
17	17	1	Jack Harvey
18	26	9	Graham Rahal
27	38	12	Will Power
39	47	9	Graham Rahal
48	54	7	Scott Dixon
55	55	1	Spencer Pigot
56	56	1	Marcus Ericsson
57	60	4	Josef Newgarden
61	61	1	Zach Veach
62	80	19	Scott Dixon

Cautions: 1 for 4 laps
From lap	To lap	Total laps	Reason
36	39	4	#7 (Askew) accident turn 14

Championship standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings

	Pos	Driver	Points
	1	Scott Dixon	104
	2	Simon Pagenaud	75
	3	Josef Newgarden	64
3	4	Colton Herta	58
12	5	Graham Rahal	54