Team Penske heads into Canada with loads of momentum after sweeping the weekend at Iowa Speedway. Scott McLaughlin won Race 1 and Will Power won Race 2.
Chip Ganassi Racing's Alex Palou's lead has shrunk to 35 points, with Power now his biggest rival.
Christian Lundgaard can be hoping to repeat history in Toronto because the defending champion. It was his first IndyAutomotive victory.
This weekend's race on the streets of Toronto can be the thirty eighth IndyAutomotive race on the venue. Scott Dixon is essentially the most decorated energetic driver at Toronto with 4 wins. Dixon, Power, Lundgaard and Josef Newgarden are the one former Toronto winners in the sector.
Twelve drivers within the race led the track for multiple laps: Newgarden 1847, Power 383, Dixon 131, Pato O'Ward 97, Graham Rahal 32, Ed Carpenter 18, Felix Rosenqvist 9, Alexander Rossi 4, Marcus Ericsson 3, Scott McLaughlin 2, David Malukas 1 and Palou 1.
There have been six different winners within the nine points-scoring races within the 2024 season: O'Ward (St. Petersburg*, Mid-Ohio), Dixon (Long Beach, Detroit), McLaughlin (Barber, Iowa), Palou (Indianapolis Road Course, Laguna Seca), Newgarden (Indianapolis 500), Power (Road America, Iowa). The record for many different winners in a season is 11 in 2000, 2001 and 2014.
*O'Ward was awarded the win after Newgarden was disqualified for illegally overtaking.
When is the IndyAutomotive race in Toronto?
Date: Friday, July 19 – Sunday, July 21
Race start: Sunday – 1:30 PM EST
Path: The streets of Toronto Exhibition Place are a 1.786-mile (2.874 km) temporary street circuit with 11 turns
Race distance: 85 laps / 51.81 miles / 244.29 kilometers
Hybrid Energy Implementation Parameters:Unlimited activation with a maximum deployment of 305 kilojoules (kJ) per lap.
Push to Pass parameters: Total duration: 200 seconds, with a maximum time to activate of 20 seconds.
Firestone Tire Allocation: Six sets of primary tyres, 4 spare sets for use through the event weekend. Teams fielding a rookie driver may use one additional set of primary tyres. Teams must use one set of primary tyres and one set of latest (with sticker) alternative tyres for at the least two laps of the race.
Qualifying lap record: Gil de Ferran, 57.143 seconds, 110.565 mph, July 17, 1999 (Note: Josef Newgarden set the qualifying record of 58.4129 seconds, 110.072 mph for the present layout in 2019.)
Christian Lundgaard and Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Honda
Photo: Gavin Baker / Motorsports images
How can I watch the Toronto IndyAutomotive race on TV?
Kevin Lee is the play-by-play commentator for Peacock's coverage of the NTT INDYCAR SERIES, alongside analysts Townsend Bell and James Hinchcliffe. Dillon Welch and Charlie Kimball are pit reporters.
IndyAutomotive and Indy NXT Broadcast Schedule (Eastern Time)
Friday, July 19
15:00-16:15 – NTT INDYCAR Series 1 Practice (45 minutes for all cars, then two groups of 10 minutes each), Peacock/TSN+
Saturday, July 20
10:30-11:30 – NTT INDYCAR Series 2 Practice (45 minutes of green flag running or 60 minutes), Peacock/TSN+
14:45-16:15 – NTT P1 Prize Qualifiers (three rounds of knockout qualifiers), Peacock/TSN+
Sunday, July 21
10:00–10:30 – Last training of the NTT INDYCAR SERIES, Peacock/TSN+
1:00 PM – Peacock/TSN4 on air
13:23 – Ontario Honda Dealers Indy Toronto “Drivers, Start Your Engines”
1:30 p.m. – Ontario Honda Dealers Indy Toronto (85 laps, 151.81 miles), Peacock/TSN4/TSN+ (live).
How can I take heed to the Toronto IndyAutomotive race on the radio?
Mark Jaynes is the presenter alongside driver analyst Davey Hamilton. Jake Query and Alex Wollf are the corner commentators. Joel Sebastianelli, Drake York and DJ Clark are the pit reporters. The Ontario Honda Dealers Indy Toronto (1 p.m. ET Sunday), NTT P1 Award qualifying (2:50 a.m. ET Saturday) and all NTT INDYCAR SERIES practices air continue to exist network affiliates SiriusXM 218, racecontrol.indycar.com and the INDYCAR app powered by NTT DATA.
2024 Hy-Vee IndyAutomotive Race Weekend Double Event Entry List
