Honda Indy GP of Alabama – facts, figures, entry list

Event date: Saturday, Apr. 17 – Sunday, Apr. 18

Track: Barber Motorsports Park, 2.38-mile 17-turn natural road course in Leeds, Alabama

Race distance: 90 laps (214.2 miles)

Firestone tire allotment: Six sets primary, four sets alternate, one additional set available for rookies for use in first practice.

Push-to-pass parameters: 200 seconds of total time with a maximum time of 20 seconds per activation.

At-track IndyCar schedule (local/Central Time) and broadcast details

Saturday, Apr. 17
10.00-10.45am – First practice – Peacock
1.40-2.25pm – Second practice – Peacock
4.55-6.10pm – Qualifying – Peacock
9.00pm – Qualifying broadcast encore – Peacock

Sunday, Apr. 18
10.30-11.00 – Warm-up – Peacock
2.00pm – Pre-race – NBC, NBCSports.com, NBC Sports app
2.30pm – “Drivers, start your engines” – NBC, NBCSports.com, NBC Sports app
2.42pm – Green flag: Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama – NBC, NBCSports.com, NBC Sports app
4.30pm – IndyCar post-race – NBC, NBCSports.com, NBC Sports app

*For full on-track schedule, click here 

Leigh Diffey is the announcer alongside analysts Townsend Bell and Paul Tracy, while pit reporters will be Marty Snider, Kelli Stavast and Dave Burns.

IndyCar Radio Network broadcasts: Mark Jaynes is the chief announcer alongside analyst Davey Hamilton and Nick Yeoman. Jake Query is the turn announcer. The Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama race (3.00pm ET) airs live on network affiliates, XM 205, Sirius 211, indycar.com and the IndyCar Mobile app powered by NTT DATA. All NTT IndyCar Series practices and qualifying are available on indycar.com and the IndyCar Mobile app, with qualifying also airing on XM 205.

Race Notes

2019 race winner: Takuma Sato, 1:55:46.8076, 107.272 mph. No race in 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic.

2019 NTT P1 Award winner: Takuma Sato, 1:08.5934, 120.711 mph. No race in 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Qualifying lap record: Sebastien Bourdais, 1:06.6001, 124.324 mph, April 23, 2016

The Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama will be the 11th NTT IndyCar Series event at Barber Motorsports Park. Helio Castroneves won the inaugural race in 2010.

Josef Newgarden won in 2015, ’17 and ’18, Will Power won in 2011 and ’12, Ryan Hunter-Reay won in 2013 and ’14, Simon Pagenaud in 2016 and Takuma Sato in 2019.

Power claimed pole position in 2010, ’11, ’14 and ’17, Hunter-Reay in 2013, Pagenaud in ’16, Newgarden in ’18, and Sato in ’19.

Scott Dixon has finished on the podium in eight of his 10 starts at Barber Motorsports Park – including six runner-up finishes – but Chip Ganassi Racing as a whole has never won here, while Team Penske has six wins here.

Eighteen of this weekend’s 24 drivers have previously competed in NTT INDYCAR SERIES races at Barber Motorsports Park, with ten having led laps: Power 208, Newgarden 133, Hunter-Reay 93, Pagenaud 87, Sato 74, Dixon 46, Graham Rahal 25, Sebastien Bourdais 19, James Hinchcliffe 4 and Alexander Rossi 3.

Entry list