A dramatic “month of May” at Indianapolis Motor Speedway followed through two dramatic competitions on the streets of Detroit and on Road America sent IndyCar on its “summer vacation. “
In fact, Sunday is a rarity in the United States as there is also no NASCAR Cup Series race.
Racing enthusiasts in the United States had to find some other race series for their adrenaline rush, such as Max Verstappen’s impressive victory at the Canadian Grand Prix on Sunday. -Opening of the SRX race at Five Flags Speedway in Pensacola, Florida.
Castroneves moved from the race to Victory Lane, the fence of the short asphalt track of the Florida Panhandle.
SRX is an “All-Star series” created by Tony Stewart and Ray Evernham (who has since left SRX) that pits drivers from racing bureaucracy against production cars that are also ready at six of the most prominent Saturday night tracks across the country on a made-for-TV occasion on CBS.
While racing series like Nascar and Formula 1 compete almost each and every weekend of the season, IndyCar has smaller groups and budgets. That’s why five races in five weekends is a challenge for an IndyCar team and its members.
The next race on the NTT IndyCar Series calendar is the two-hundred Honda Indy in Mid-Ohio on July 3. It begins a six-race series over the next six weeks, adding the Honda Indy Toronto on July 17, a double at Iowa Speedway on July 23 and July 24, the Gallagher Grand Prix at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on July 30 and the Big Machine Music City Grand Prix on August 7.
Once this turbulent era is over, there are 3 IndyCar races left in the season, adding the Bommarito Automotive Group 500 at World Wide Technology Raceway, the last oval court of 2022, on August 20.
The season ends with the Portland Grand Prix in September and the Firestone Monterey Grand Prix on September 11.
IndyCar did not have a race this weekend, however, 20 of its cars and drivers are recently at Iowa Speedway in Newton, Iowa, for the start of a personal test on the 0. 875-mile oval. This facility will host HyVeeDeals. com 250 on Saturday, July 23 and the Hy-Vee Salute to Farmers three hundred on Sunday, July 24 with any of the races on NBC.
The drivers who will register in Iowa come with Castroneves, Scott Dixon, Marcus Ericsson, winner of the 106th Indianapolis 500, Jack Harvey, JR Hildebrand, Callum Ilott, Jimmie Johnson, Dalton Kellett, Kyle Kirkwood, Christian Lundgaard, Scott McLaughlin, David Malukas, Josef Newgarden, Pato. O’Ward, Simon Pagenaud, Alex Palou, Will Power, Graham Rahal, Felix Rosenqvist and Takuma Sato.
Two more trials are planned with seven drivers at the 14-corner, 2,439-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway. These drivers come with Devlin De Francesco, Romain Grosjean, Colton Herta, Kirkwood, O’Ward and Alexander Rossi. Andretti Autosport test in which Arrow McLaren SP has chosen to participate.
Four drivers are scheduled to register on June 27 at Sebring International Raceway, a track that will simulate street races on July 17 in Toronto and Aug. 7 in Nashville. These drivers come with Harvey, Lundgaard, Rahal and Indy Lights. Presented through Cooper Tires star Benjamin. Pedersen with Juncos Hollinger Racing.
There is a small window between the 3 race weekends counting in the Indy 500 qualifying at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in May with trips to Detroit and Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin after the Indy 500. This makes this week’s control in Iowa so vital for the groups hoping to compete in the championship.
In addition to winning the 106th edition of the Indianapolis 500, Ericsson is the leader in NTT IndyCar series issues. He is 27 points ahead of second-placed Power of Team Penske.
“Going into the little break, we are now confident,” Ericsson said. “We are in a position for the middle moment.
Power’s teammate Newgarden is 32 times the leader.
Newgarden is a two-time IndyCar Series champion and the only driving force with wins this season. His victory at the Sonsio Grand Prix at Road America on June 12 was his third of the season. All other driving forces with a win have only one.
“It’s been too many ups and downs for us,” Newgarden explained. A kind of dinner or famine. I think we had the prospect of 4 or five wins so far. So we’ve done 3 of the five perspectives, let’s say, the others we didn’t win, we fell far behind.
“We want our consistency. It’s a bit abnormal for us. I have the impression that we are a fairly homogeneous group. So I’m not going to lose sleep over why this happened. Sometimes you get into the little micro-trends where we didn’t have the consistency we wanted.
“First, we want to leave this blank. We want to win a few more races before the end of the year because of the way the first component of the season unfolded. We have wins on the board. “
“But more than wins, consistency will dominate this year’s day, that’s for sure. “
Power is followed by O’Ward of Arrow McLaren SP, forty-five at the helm. Palou, the reigning NTT IndyCar Series champion, is fifth, 47 points ahead.
Scott Dixon, a six-time NTT IndyCar Series champion, is sixth, 69-number leader, followed by Rossi (75 numbers), Rosenqvist (90 leader), McLaughlin (94 numbers) and Pagenaud (96).
There are 11 drivers within the 100 points of the championship lead. Colton Herta is 11th, with 97 points.
Although Newgarden has the maximum number of wins, the biggest winner is Ericsson, as it won the most important race of all: the Indianapolis 500.
From now on, the Swedish driving force will have to concentrate on the championship.
“It’s so competitive on screen right now,” Ericsson said. “Any weekend can be a new winner. It’s hard to even be in the most sensible 10 if you don’t do everything right.
“I think it’s going to be a difficult season, a long season. We have put ourselves in a very clever position now, in the lead. So we have to keep doing what we did. The last 12 months we were the most sensible scorers in the league. I think that says a lot about where we’ve played since Detroit last year, it was 12 months ago.
“I think we’re in a position of strength, but it’s going to take a lot of work, to keep doing what we’ve done. “
From a business perspective, IndyCar seems to be on an upward trajectory. According to statistics provided by NBC, the audience for the NTT IndyCar series had its most productive start since 2017 on NBC Sports.
IndyCar has an average overall broadcast (TAD) of 1. 721 million viewers on NBC Sports (NBC, Peacock, USA Network) platforms this season, making it the most watched race since 2017 (1,760). millions; ABC/NBCSN). The start of the 2022 season is also higher than last year’s comparable policy (1,634 million; NBC/NBCSN).
With its Peacock streaming platform, 2022 ranks as the most streamed IndyCar season ever recorded with a consistent average audience per minute (AMA) of 60,900 viewers. .
WADA also includes NBCSports. com streaming and NBC Sports app authentication.
The June 12 Sonsio Grand Prix at Road America attracted an average of 1. 11 billion viewers on NBC and Peacock, making it the most-watched edition of the race since 2019 (1. 11 billion; NBC). Newgarden’s third season win last Sunday peaked with an audience of 1. 279 million on TV alone and an average family score of 0. 69. TAD is based on the knowledge of Nielsen and Adobe Analytics.
However, the policy of the 106th indianapolis 500 was lower than in 2021. NBC’s Indy 500 broadcast policy averaged 2. 69 Nielsen and 4. 618 million viewers. That’s down from 3. 15/5. 547 million last year.
However, according to NBC, this year’s Indianapolis 500 broadcast the biggest one-day sporting occasion on the network since the Super Bowl and the Beijing Winter Olympics in February.
It’s still the most-watched motorsports TV show of the day, with higher ratings and more viewership than the Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix on ABC and NASCAR’s Coca-Cola 600 on FOX.