What time and channel is the IndyCar race today?

This race, which normally signals the start of the ‘Month of May’ at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, culminating in the Indianapolis 500 on Memorial Day Weekend, has been shifted by two months due to the pandemic. So instead it now signals the start of a torrent of races – five in the space of three weeks, thanks to double-headers at Road America and Iowa Speedway.

It also marks a special weekend because IndyCar and NASCAR have come together – admittedly, not in front of any fans – so that the Xfinity race here will be held for the first time on the road course, while the Brickyard 400 for the Monster Energy Cup cars will use the iconic 2.5-mile oval tomorrow.

The Grand Prix of Indianapolis was first held in 2014 and was won by Simon Pagenaud in the Schmidt Peterson Motorsport-Honda – a team that is now Arrow McLaren SP-Chevrolet.

Since then, only Pagenaud and Will Power have won the event so that each now hold three GP Indy victories. That means Team Penske, who hired Pagenaud in 2015, have won the last five races here.

Power took pole for the fourth time here in yesterday’s qualifying session while Scott Dixon of Chip Ganassi Racing, who has finished runner-up for the last three GP Indys, topped this morning’s warm-up session.

Race: GMR Grand Prix of Indianapolis 
Date: Saturday, July 4, 2020
Start time: 12.08pm local/Eastern Time
Location: Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course

What channel is the IndyCar race on today?

The race is being shown live on NBC, with coverage beginning at 12 noon (ET) and the field due to get the green flag at 12.08pm.

In addition there are Pennzoil IndyCar Radio Network broadcasts: Mark Jaynes is chief announcer alongside analyst Davey Hamilton. Jake Query is the turn announcer with Nick Yeoman reporting from the pits. The GP of Indianapolis airs live on network affiliates, Sirius 211, XM 205, indycar.com, indycarradio.com and the IndyCar Mobile app powered by NTT DATA. All NTT IndyCar Series practices and qualifying are available on indycar.com, indycarradio.com and the IndyCar Mobile app, with qualifying also airing on Sirius 211 and XM 205.

Spotter’s guide, entry list, facts and figures for IndyCar at the GP of Indianapolis click here 

How the grid lines up for the GMR GP:

Cla	Driver	Team	Time	Gap	Mph
1	Will Power	Team Penske	1'10.177		125.116
2	Jack Harvey	Meyer Shank Racing	1'10.365	0.187	124.783
3	Colton Herta	Andretti Harding Steinbrenner Autosport	1'10.519	0.341	124.510
4	Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	1'10.584	0.406	124.396
5	Oliver Askew	Arrow McLaren SP	1'10.840	0.662	123.946
6	Josef Newgarden	Team Penske
7	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing	1'10.199	0.021	125.079
8	Conor Daly	Ed Carpenter Racing	1'10.216	0.039	125.047
9	Felix Rosenqvist	Chip Ganassi Racing	1'10.231	0.053	125.022
10	Max Chilton	Carlin	1'10.305	0.127	124.889
11	Alexander Rossi	Andretti Autosport	1'10.342	0.164	124.823
12	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	1'10.576	0.398	124.410
13	Patricio O'Ward	Arrow McLaren SP	1'10.733	0.555	124.134
14	Marcus Ericsson	Chip Ganassi Racing	1'10.628	0.450	124.318
15	Santino Ferrucci	Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser Sullivan	1'10.790	0.612	124.034
16	Spencer Pigot	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing with Citrone/Buhl A	1'10.635	0.457	124.307
17	Takuma Sato	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	1'10.885	0.707	123.868
18	Rinus van Kalmthout	Ed Carpenter Racing	1'10.707	0.529	124.180
19	James Hinchcliffe	Andretti Autosport	1'11.147	0.969	123.411
20	Simon Pagenaud	Team Penske	1'10.743	0.565	124.115
21	Alex Palou	Dale Coyne Racing with Team Goh	1'11.181	1.003	123.352
22	Zach Veach	Andretti Autosport	1'11.276	1.098	123.188
23	Sage Karam	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	1'11.777	1.599	122.328
24	Charlie Kimball	A.J. Foyt Enterprises	1'11.402	1.224	122.970
25	Marco Andretti	Andretti Herta Autosport with Marco & Curb-Agajani	1'12.051	1.873	121.863
26	Dalton Kellett	A.J. Foyt Enterprises	1'11.587	1.409	122.653
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