2026 NTT IndyCar SeriesOpen Wheel

[NotThePrez]

Spoiler: 2026 Schedule

Race	Track	Race Weekend
1) Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg	Streets of St. Petersburg [Street Circuit]	February 27 - March 1
2) Good Rancher 250	Phoenix Raceway [Oval]	March 6 - March 7
3) Java House Grand Prix of Arlington	Streets of Arlington [Street Circuit]	March 13 - March 15
4) Children's of Alabama Indy Grand Prix	Barber Motorsports Park [Road Course]	March 27 - March 29
5) Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach	Streets of Long Beach [Street Circuit]	April 17 - April 19
6) Sosino Grand Prix	Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course [Road Course]	May 8 - May 9
7) 110th Running of the Indianapolis 500	Indianapolis Motor Speedway [Oval]	May 12 - May 18 [Practice & Qualifying Sessions] May 22 - May 24 [Final Practice & Race Day]
8) Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix	Streets of Detroit [Street Circuit]	May 29 - May 31
9) Bommarito Automotive Group 500	World Wide Technology Speedway [Oval]	June 6 - June 7
10) XPEL Grand Prix at Road America	Road America [Road Course]	June 19 - June 21
11) Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course [Road Course]	July 3 - July 5
12) Borchetta Bourbon Music City Grand Prix	Nashville Superspeedway [Oval]	July 18 - July 19
13) BITNILE.com Grand Prix of Portland	Portland International Raceway [Road Course]	August 7 - August 9
14) Ontario Honda Dealers Indy at Markham	Streets of Markham [Street Circuit]	August 14 - August 16
15) Freedom 250 Grand Prix of Washington, D.C.	Streets of Washington [Street Circuit]	August 21 - August 23
16) Snap-on Makers and Fixers 250 17) Snap-on Milwaukee Mile 250	Milwaukee Mile [Oval]	August 28 [Practice Sessions] August 29 [Qualifying, Race 1] August 30 [Race 2]
18) IndyCar Grand Prix of Monterey	WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca [Road Course]	September 4 - September 6

Spoiler: 2026 Teams & Drivers

Team	Engine Supplier	Driver & Number
A.J. Foyt Enterprises	Chevrolet	#4 Caio Collet [R] #14 Santino Ferruci
Andretti Global	Honda	#26 Will Power #27 Kyle Kirkwood #28 Marcus Ericcson
Arrow Mclaren	Chevolet	#5 Pato O' Ward #6 Nolan Seigel #7 Christian Lundgaard #31 Ryan Hunter-Reay [Indy 500 Entry]
Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	#8 Kyffin Simpson #9 Scott Dixon #10 Alex Palou
Dale Coyne Racing	Honda	#18 Romain Grosjean #19 Dennis Hauger [R]
Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	Chevrolet	#23 Conor Daly [Indy 500 Entry] #24 Jack Harvey [Indy 500 Entry]
Ed Carpenter Racing [ECR]	Chevrolet	#20 Alexander Rossi #21 Christian Rasmussen #33 Ed Carpenter [Indy 500 Entry]
Juncos Hollinger Racing	Chevrolet	#76 Rinus Vee Kay #77 Sting Ray Robb
Meyer Shank Racing w/ Curb-Agajanian	Honda	#06 Helio Castroneves [Indy 500 Entry] #60 Felix Rosenqvist #66 Marcus Armstrong
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Honda	#15 Graham Rahal #45 Louis Foster #47 Mick Schumacher [R] #75 Takuma Sato [Indy 500 Entry]
Team Penske	Chevrolet	#2 Josef Newgarden #3 Scott McLaughlin #12 David Malukas

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Honestly kinda suprised a thread hasn't been made, given that the St. Pete weekend is underway at the time of posting.

 

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[NotThePrez]

Dennis Hauger has been rapid in this qualifying session. Pretty impressive to see a Rookie get into the Fast 6.

Edit: Homie qualified P3, a tenth up on Palou. That's terrifying.

 

[IforceV8]

Scotty Mac on pole with Cindric calling the shots is going to be tough to beat.

 

[NotThePrez]

First lap incident, Mick is out of the race.

 

[DK]

You'd think Ferrucci would be overjoyed to be touched by #47.

 

[AnthonyD1993]

I am surprised that Dixon and the Ganassi crew of all people managed to botch a pit stop that badly. That usually does not happen.

 

[IforceV8]

Palou is a machine.

 

[Sir Crashalot]

Those rotating cameras are nice!

 

[IforceV8]

I was a little skeptical of this Arlington track after P1 but it seems to work as a race track. Nice job by Will pointing out they the cars will be full throttle for the entire straight.

 

[NotThePrez]

Sato-san returns!

https://racer.com/2026/03/17/sato-returning-to-indy-with-rll

 

[hakhan]

Sato-san returns!

https://racer.com/2026/03/17/sato-returning-to-indy-with-rll

He has what it takes for full-time racing.

 

[ro_har_]

Wild ride for McLaughlin red flags IndyCar practice

https://racer.com/2026/03/28/wild-ride-for-mclaughlin-red-flags-indycar-practice

 

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[AnthonyD1993]

The craziest thing about that wreck is that he said, "It looked worse than it was." It's surreal to see that because it could have been fatal. given the way the car went through the fence.

 

[IforceV8]

 

[toastet]

Sorry but it's hard today 😴

 

[toastet]

My 2026 Indycar 1-10 rating until R5:

St. Petersburg 4
Phoenix 7
Arlington 3
Barber 2
Long Beach 2

Sorry but it's hard today 😴

again

 

[Gerarghini]

TBH Long Beach has been a snoozer for a while. Last year they had 0 cautions and Kirkwood led, I think, from flag-to-flag. This year, after that random caution and Palou jumping Rosenqvist(?) on pit lane, it's like idk what I expected

Being there in person at the right grandstands definitely helps; last year I was in the bowl of turns 9, 10, and 11. That seat was boring as hell--very little chaos in the hairpin, surprisingly. This year I was at the grandstands at turn 1 and there's definitely way more action there with drivers making risky inside overtakes, but it's wild to me that, two years of going to Long Beach that there hasn't been some insane crash of a driver making a dumb move and paying the ultimate price for it.