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2018 IndyCar season
Verizon IndyCar Series
File:2015 Verizon IndyCar Series logo.png
Season
Races17
Start dateMarch 11
End dateSeptember 16
Awards
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The 2018 Verizon IndyCar Series is the 23rd season of the Verizon IndyCar Series and the 97th official championship season of American open wheel racing. The premier event will be the 102nd Indianapolis 500, with Takuma Sato entering as the defending Indianapolis 500 winner. Josef Newgarden will enter the season as the defending drivers' champion.

Series news

  • On October 20, 2017 it was announced that American cellular network giant Verizon will discontinue the IndyCar Series title sponsor after the 2018 season. The Verizon-Team Penske partnership will however continue beyond 2018.[1]
  • American braking company PFC will increase their IndyCar Series involvement by supplying the brake calipers from 2018 season onwards.
  • Kyle Novak was confirmed as Race Director on Januray 5th, replacing Brian Barnhart, who had previously left for Harding Racing as President. The three-man stewarding panel introduced when Barnhart was first named Race Director will remain intact.[2]

Technical changes

  • All IndyCar Series machines will feature an all-new universal bodywork, inspired by CART's 1990s and 2000s bodywork, but still keep the Dallara DW12 chassis base. For the first time since the 1996 IRL and 2007 Champ Car seasons respectively, cars will have a roll hoop without airbox.[3][4]
  • All IndyCar Series entrants will begin utilizing F1-style LCD steering wheel display dashes, new universal Cosworth CCW Mk2 steering wheel and new electronic components.[5] The current Cosworth-Pi Research Sigma Wheel Display dash used since the 2000 season will be retired permanently, but several teams will opt to keep the old Cosworth Sigma Wheel Display dash for one more season due to cost reasons.

Teams and drivers

This chart reflects confirmed and cited driver-engine-team combinations only.

Team Engine No. Driver(s) Round(s)
United States A. J. Foyt Enterprises Chevrolet 4 Brazil Matheus Leist (R)[6] All
14 Brazil Tony Kanaan[7] All
United States Andretti Autosport Honda[8] 25 United Kingdom Stefan Wilson[9] 6
26 United States Zach Veach (R)[10] All
27 United States Alexander Rossi[11] All
28 United States Ryan Hunter-Reay[12] All
29 Colombia Carlos Muñoz[13] 6
United States Andretti Herta Autosport with Curb Agajanian 98 United States Marco Andretti[11] All
United Kingdom Carlin Chevrolet 23 United States Charlie Kimball[14] All
59 United Kingdom Max Chilton[14] All
United States Chip Ganassi Racing Honda 9 New Zealand Scott Dixon[15] All
10 United Arab Emirates Ed Jones[16] All
United States Dale Coyne Racing Honda 18 France Sébastien Bourdais[17] All
19 TBA All
United States Dreyer & Reinbold Racing TBA TBA TBA[18] 6
TBA TBA[19] 6
United States Ed Carpenter Racing Chevrolet 20 United Kingdom Jordan King (R)[20] 1, 3–5, 7–8, 10, 12–13, 16–17
United States Ed Carpenter 2, 6, 9, 11, 14–15
21 United States Spencer Pigot[21] All
United States Harding Racing Chevrolet[22] 88 Colombia Gabby Chaves[23] All
United States Juncos Racing Chevrolet 32[24][25] Austria René Binder (R)[26] 1, 4, 12–13
United States Kyle Kaiser (R)[27] 2–3, 5–6
United States Lazier Partners Racing TBA TBA United States Buddy Lazier[28] 6
United States Michael Shank Racing Honda 60 United Kingdom Jack Harvey (R)[29][N 1] 1, 3, 6, 13, 16–17
United States Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Honda 15 United States Graham Rahal[30] All
30 Japan Takuma Sato[31] All
United States Schmidt Peterson Motorsports Honda[32] 5 Canada James Hinchcliffe[33] All
7 Canada Robert Wickens (R)[33] All
United States France Schmidt Peterson Motorsports with Calmels Sport 77 France Tristan Gommendy[34] 6
TBA TBA TBA United States Danica Patrick[35] 6
United States Team Penske Chevrolet[32] 1 United States Josef Newgarden[36][37] All
3 Brazil Hélio Castroneves[38] 5–6
12 Australia Will Power[36] All
22 France Simon Pagenaud[36] All

Schedule

Rd. Date Race Name Track City
1 March 11 Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg (S) Streets of St. Petersburg St. Petersburg, Florida
2 April 7 Desert Diamond West Valley Phoenix Grand Prix (O) ISM Raceway Avondale, Arizona
3 April 15 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach (S) Streets of Long Beach Long Beach, California
4 April 22 Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama (R) Barber Motorsports Park Leeds, Alabama
5 May 12 IndyCar Grand Prix (R) Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course Speedway, Indiana
6 May 27 102nd Indianapolis 500 Presented by PennGrade Motor Oil (O) Indianapolis Motor Speedway Speedway, Indiana
7 June 2 Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix Presented by Lear Corporation (S) Belle Isle Park Detroit, Michigan
8 June 3
9 June 9 Texas Indy 600 (O) Texas Motor Speedway Fort Worth, Texas
10 June 24 Kohler Grand Prix (R) Road America Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin
11 July 8 Iowa Corn 300 (O) Iowa Speedway Newton, Iowa
12 July 15 Honda Indy Toronto (S) Exhibition Place Toronto, Ontario
13 July 29 Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio (R) Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Lexington, Ohio
14 August 19 ABC Supply 500 (O) Pocono Raceway Long Pond, Pennsylvania
15 August 25 Bommarito Automotive Group 500 Presented by Valvoline (O) Gateway Motorsports Park Madison, Illinois
16 September 2 Grand Prix of Portland (R) Portland International Raceway Portland, Oregon
17 September 16 Grand Prix of Sonoma (R) Sonoma Raceway Sonoma, California

(O) Oval/Speedway
(R) Road Course
(S) Street Circuit

Schedule changes and notes

  • On September 26, 2017, Phoenix International Raceway's name was changed to ISM Raceway after a $100 million sponsorship deal with Ingenuity Sun Media, or ISM.
  • Watkins Glen was dropped from the calendar, after only two races since its return in 2016. The round was replaced with a race at Portland International Raceway, after an 11-year absence since Portland's last Champ Car event.
  • The Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City was explored as a possible host of a race in August, but the deal was not put together and the race was not put on the calendar.[48]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Team to get technical support from Schmidt Peterson Motorsports.

References

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