2021_IndyCar_season

2021 IndyCar season
2021 IndyCar season
NTT IndyCar Series
Season
Races	16
Start date	April 18
End date	September 26
Awards
Drivers' champion	Álex Palou
Manufacturers' Cup	Honda
Rookie of the Year	Scott McLaughlin
Indianapolis 500 winner	Hélio Castroneves
	← 2020 2022 →

2021 IndyCar Series

26th season of the IndyCar Series

The 2021 NTT IndyCar Series was the 26th season of the IndyCar Series and the 110th official championship season of American open wheel racing. The premier event was the 2021 Indianapolis 500, won by Hélio Castroneves (Meyer Shank Racing). It was the second year under Penske management after they took over in late 2019. Scott Dixon (Chip Ganassi Racing) entered his 21st season competing for a National Championship as the defending champion, but ultimately finished the campaign in fourth place.

Quick Facts Season, Races ...

Álex Palou (left) won his first driver's championship, Josef Newgarden (right), finished second in points.

Second-year driver Álex Palou became the first Spanish driver to win the series championship,^[1] winning a joint-most three races during the campaign for Chip Ganassi Racing. He finished 38 points clear of Team Penske's Josef Newgarden, who won two races, and finished second in points for the second year in succession.^[2] Third place in the championship went to Pato O'Ward for Arrow McLaren SP, who like Newgarden, won two races during the season. A total of nine drivers won races during the season, with Colton Herta (Andretti Autosport) also winning three races.^[2] The Manufacturers' Cup was won by Honda for the fourth consecutive season, while Scott McLaughlin (Team Penske) won Rookie of the Year honors.^[2]

Points standings

Ties are broken by number of wins, followed by number of 2nds, 3rds, etc.; then by finishing position in the previous race; then by random draw.^[86]

Driver standings

At all races except the Indy 500, the pole position qualifier earned 1 point (unless qualifying is not held).^[87] The top nine Indy 500 qualifiers received points, descending from 9 points for the pole position.^[87] At double header races, the fastest qualifier of each qualifying group earned 1 point.^[87]
Drivers who lead at least one race lap were awarded 1 point.^[86] The driver who leads the most laps during a race scored an additional 2 points.^[86]
Entrant-initiated engine change-outs before the engine reached their required distance run resulted in the loss of 10 points.^[88]

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Pos	Driver	ALA	STP	TXS		IGP1	INDY	DET		ROA	MDO	NSH	IGP2	GAT	POR	LAG	LBH	Pts
1	Álex Palou	1^L*	17^L	4^cL	7^L	3^L	2^6L	15	3	1^L	3	7	27	20	1^L	2	4	549
2	Josef Newgarden	23	2	6	2^L	4	12	10	2^L*	21^L*	1^L*	10	8^L	1^L*	5	7	2^L	511
3	Pato O'Ward	4^L	19	3	1^L	15	4^L	3^L	1^L	9	8	13	5^L	2^L	14^L	5	27	487
4	Scott Dixon	3	5	1^L*	4^cL*	9^L	17^1L	8^L	7	4^L	4	2	17	19	3^L	13	3^L	481
5	Colton Herta	22	1^L*	22	5	13	16^2L	14	4	2	13^L	19^L*	3^L	18^L	8	1^L*	1^L*	455
6	Marcus Ericsson	8	7	19	12	10	11⁹	1^L	9	6	2^L	1^L	9	9	7^L	6	28	435
7	Graham Rahal	7	15	5	3^L	5	32^L	5^L	5	11	6	5	7	23	10^L*	4	16^L	389
8	Simon Pagenaud	12	3^L	10	6	6	3^L	12	8	18	14	21	16^L	8^L	21	8	5	383
9	Will Power	2^L	8	14	13^L	11	30	20^L*	6	3	25	14	1^L*	3^L	13	26	10	357
10	Alexander Rossi	9	21	8	20	7	29	7^L	13	7	5	17	4	17	2	25	6	332
11	Takuma Sato	13	6	9	14^L	16	14^L	4	12	8^L	10	25	10	6	12	27	9	324
12	Rinus VeeKay	6^L	9	20	9^L	1^L	8^3L	2	18		16	24	24	21	17	18	25	308
13	Jack Harvey	11	4	7	17	23	18	16	19	17	19	15	6	10	4^L	15	7^L	308
14	Scott McLaughlin RY	14	11	2	8	8	20	19	20	14	12	22	23	4	9^L	12	11	305
15	Romain Grosjean R	10	13			2^L*		23^L	24	5	7	16^L	2	14	22	3^L	24	272
16	Sébastien Bourdais	5^L	10	24	19	19	26	11	16	16	11	27	15	5^L	18	14	8	258
17	Ryan Hunter-Reay	24	14	16	10	12^L	22⁷	21	11	13	24	4	18	7	15	11	23	256
18	Conor Daly	16	16	21	24	25	13^L*	13	15	20	15	12	11	11	16	16	21	235
19	Ed Jones	15	20	12	22	14	28	9^L	17	23	26	6	14	24	11^L	10	12	233
20	James Hinchcliffe	17	18	23	18	18	21	17	14	15	17	3	22	15	27	20	14	220
21	Felix Rosenqvist	21	12	13	16	17	27^L	25			23	8	13	16	6	19	13	205
22	Hélio Castroneves						1^8L					9	21		23	24	20^L	158
23	Dalton Kellett	18	23	18	23	20	23	18	23	25	21	23	26	12	26	23	19	148
24	Santino Ferrucci						6^L	6	10		9	11						146
25	Max Chilton	20	24				24	22	22	10^L	18	18	20		19	21	15	134
26	Jimmie Johnson R	19	22			24		24	21	22	22	26	19		20	17	17	108
27	Ed Carpenter			17	11^L		5⁴							22				107
28	Tony Kanaan			11	15		10⁵							13				96
29	Oliver Askew								25	12^L					24	9	22^L	61
30	Sage Karam						7^L											53
31	Juan Pablo Montoya					21	9											53
32	Pietro Fittipaldi			15	21		25											34
33	J. R. Hildebrand						15											30
34	Cody Ware R									19		20	25					26
35	Marco Andretti						19											22
36	Charlie Kimball					22	DNQ										18	20
37	Christian Lundgaard R												12^L					19
38	Callum Ilott R														25	22	26	18
39	Ryan Norman R										20							10
40	Simona de Silvestro						31											10
41	Stefan Wilson R						33											10
42	Kevin Magnussen R									24^L								7
43	R. C. Enerson R						DNQ						28					5
Pos	Driver	ALA	STP	TXS		IGP1	INDY	DET		ROA	MDO	NSH	IGP2	GAT	POR	LAG	LBH	Pts

Color	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	2nd-place finish
Bronze	3rd-place finish
Green	Top 5 finish
Light Blue	Top 10 finish
Dark Blue	Other flagged position
Purple	Did not finish
Red	Did not qualify (DNQ)
Brown	Withdrew (Wth)
Black	Disqualified (DSQ)
White	Did Not Start (DNS)
White	Race abandoned (C)
Blank	Did not participate

In-line notation
Bold	Pole position (1 point; except Indy)
Italics	Ran fastest race lap
^L	Led race lap (1 point)
*	Led most race laps (2 points)
^1–9	Indy 500 "Fast Nine" bonus points
^c	Qualifying canceled (no bonus point)
RY	Rookie of the Year
R	Rookie

Entrant standings

Based on the entrant, used for oval qualifications order, and starting grids when qualifying is cancelled.
Only full-time entrants, and at-large part-time entrants shown.

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Manufacturer standings

All manufacturer points (including qualifying points, race finish points, and race win bonus points) could only be earned by full-season entrants,^[89] and provided they were using an engine from their initial allocation, or had mileaged out all previously used engines.^[90] Ineligible cars were removed from the finishing order used for race finish points,^[91] and could not score pole or win bonus points.^[92]
The top two finishing entrants from each manufacturer in each race scored points for their respective manufacturer. The manufacturer that won each race was awarded five additional points.
At all races except the Indy 500, the manufacturer who qualified on pole earned one point. At the Indy 500, the fastest Saturday qualifier earned one point, while the pole position winner on Sunday earned two points.

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[Texas_Q-89] Qualifying for Texas was cancelled due to rain. The grid was set by entrant points entering the race, and no bonus point was awarded for pole position.^[86]

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Rd.	Date	Race name	Track	Location
1	April 18	Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama presented by AmFirst	R Barber Motorsports Park	Birmingham, Alabama
2	April 25	Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg	R Streets of St. Petersburg	St. Petersburg, Florida
3	May 1	Genesys 300	O Texas Motor Speedway	Fort Worth, Texas
4	May 2	XPEL 375	O Texas Motor Speedway	Fort Worth, Texas
5	May 15	GMR Grand Prix	R Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course	Speedway, Indiana
6	May 30	105th Running of the Indianapolis 500	O Indianapolis Motor Speedway	Speedway, Indiana
7	June 12	Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix	R Belle Isle Street Circuit	Detroit, Michigan
8	June 13	Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix	R Belle Isle Street Circuit	Detroit, Michigan
9	June 20	REV Group Grand Prix at Road America	R Road America	Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin
10	July 4	Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio	R Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Lexington, Ohio
11	August 8	Big Machine Music City Grand Prix^[83]^[84]	R Nashville Street Circuit	Nashville, Tennessee
12	August 14	Big Machine Spiked Coolers Grand Prix^[85]	R Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course	Speedway, Indiana
13	August 21	Bommarito Automotive Group 500	O World Wide Technology Raceway	Madison, Illinois
14	September 12	Grand Prix of Portland	R Portland International Raceway	Portland, Oregon
15	September 19	Firestone Grand Prix of Monterey	R WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca	Monterey, California
16	September 26	Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach	R Streets of Long Beach	Long Beach, California

2021_IndyCar_season

2021 IndyCar Series

Background

Confirmed entries

Driver changes

Team changes

Schedule

Results

Points standings

Driver standings

Entrant standings

Manufacturer standings

See also

Footnotes

References

Sources

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Team	Engine	No.	Driver(s)	Round(s)
A. J. Foyt Enterprises	Chevrolet	1	J. R. Hildebrand^[4]	6
		4	Dalton Kellett^[5]	All
		11	Charlie Kimball^[6]	5–6, 16
		14	Sébastien Bourdais^[7]	All
Andretti Autosport	Honda	25	Stefan Wilson^[8] R ^{[lower-alpha 1]}	6
		27	Alexander Rossi^[10]	All
		28	Ryan Hunter-Reay^[11]	All
		26	Colton Herta^[12]^[13]	1–4
Andretti Autosport w/ Curb-Agajanian		26	Colton Herta^[12]^[13]	5–16
Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport^[14]		29	James Hinchcliffe^[15]	All
Andretti Herta-Haupert w/ Marco & Curb-Agajanian		98	Marco Andretti^[16]^[17]	6
Arrow McLaren SP^[18]	Chevrolet	5	Pato O'Ward^[18]^[19]	All
		7	Felix Rosenqvist^[20]^[21]	1–7, 10–16
			Oliver Askew^[22]	8
			Kevin Magnussen^[23] R	9
		86	Juan Pablo Montoya^[24]	5–6
Carlin	Chevrolet	59	Max Chilton^[25]	1–2, 6–12, 14–16
Carlin	Chevrolet	59	Conor Daly^[26]	3–4, 13
Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	8	Marcus Ericsson^[27]	All
		9	Scott Dixon^[28]	All
		10	Álex Palou^[29]	All
		48	Jimmie Johnson^[28] R	1–2, 5, 7–12, 14–16
		48	Tony Kanaan^[30]	3–4, 6, 13
Dale Coyne Racing with Rick Ware Racing^[31]	Honda	51	Romain Grosjean^[32]^[33] R	1–2, 5, 7–16
		51	Pietro Fittipaldi^[34]	3–4, 6
		52	Cody Ware^[35] R	9, 11–12
		52	Ryan Norman^[36] R	10
Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser Sullivan		18	Ed Jones^[37]	All
Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	Chevrolet	24	Sage Karam^[38]	6
Ed Carpenter Racing	Chevrolet	20	Conor Daly^[39]	1–2, 5, 7–12, 14–16
		20	Ed Carpenter^[18]	3–4, 6, 13
		21	Rinus VeeKay^[40]	1–8, 10–16
		21	Oliver Askew^[41]	9
		47	Conor Daly^[42]	6
Juncos Hollinger Racing^[43]	Chevrolet	77	Callum Ilott^[44] R	14–16
Meyer Shank Racing^[18]^{[N 1]}	Honda	06	Hélio Castroneves^[45]	6, 11–12, 14–16
Meyer Shank Racing^[18]^{[N 1]}	Honda	60	Jack Harvey^[46]	All
Paretta Autosport^[47]	Chevrolet	16	Simona de Silvestro	6
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Honda	15	Graham Rahal^[48]	All
		30	Takuma Sato^[49]	All
		45	Santino Ferrucci^[50]^[51]^[52]^[53]	6–8, 10–11
			Christian Lundgaard^[54] R	12
			Oliver Askew^[55]	14–16
Team Penske	Chevrolet	2	Josef Newgarden^[56]	All
		3	Scott McLaughlin^[57] R	All
		12	Will Power^[56]	All
		22	Simon Pagenaud^[56]	All
Top Gun Racing^[58]^[59]	Chevrolet	75	R. C. Enerson^[58] R	6, 12

Rd.	Race	Pole position	Fastest lap	Most laps led	Race Winner			Report
Rd.	Race	Pole position	Fastest lap	Most laps led	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Report
1	Birmingham	Pato O'Ward	Pato O'Ward	Álex Palou	Álex Palou	Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	Report
2	St. Petersburg	Colton Herta	Álex Palou	Colton Herta	Colton Herta	Andretti Autosport	Honda	Report
3	Texas 1	Álex Palou^{[lower-alpha 2]}	Marcus Ericsson	Scott Dixon	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	Report
4	Texas 2	Scott Dixon^{[lower-alpha 2]}	Álex Palou	Scott Dixon	Pato O'Ward	Arrow McLaren SP	Chevrolet	Report
5	IMS GMR GP	Romain Grosjean	Rinus VeeKay	Romain Grosjean	Rinus VeeKay	Ed Carpenter Racing	Chevrolet	Report
6	Indianapolis 500	Scott Dixon	Santino Ferrucci	Conor Daly	Hélio Castroneves	Meyer Shank Racing	Honda	Report
7	Detroit 1	Pato O'Ward	Josef Newgarden	Will Power	Marcus Ericsson	Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	Report
8	Detroit 2	Josef Newgarden	Colton Herta	Josef Newgarden	Pato O'Ward	Arrow McLaren SP	Chevrolet	Report
9	Road America	Josef Newgarden	Álex Palou	Josef Newgarden	Álex Palou	Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	Report
10	Mid-Ohio	Josef Newgarden	Jack Harvey	Josef Newgarden	Josef Newgarden	Team Penske	Chevrolet	Report
11	Nashville	Colton Herta	Colton Herta	Colton Herta	Marcus Ericsson	Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	Report
12	IMS Big Machine GP	Pato O'Ward	Will Power	Will Power	Will Power	Team Penske	Chevrolet	Report
13	Gateway	Will Power	Takuma Sato	Josef Newgarden	Josef Newgarden	Team Penske	Chevrolet	Report
14	Portland	Álex Palou	Romain Grosjean	Graham Rahal	Álex Palou	Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	Report
15	Laguna Seca	Colton Herta	Josef Newgarden	Colton Herta	Colton Herta	Andretti Autosport w/ Curb-Agajanian	Honda	Report
16	Long Beach	Josef Newgarden	Pato O'Ward	Colton Herta	Colton Herta	Andretti Autosport w/ Curb-Agajanian	Honda	Report

Pos	Entrant	ALA	STP	TXS		IGP1	INDY	DET		ROA	MDO	NSH	IGP2	GAT	POR	LAG	LBH	Pts
1	#10 Chip Ganassi Racing	1^L*	17^L	4^cL	7^L	3^L	2^6L	15	3	1^L	3	7	27	20	1^L	2	4	549
2	#2 Team Penske	23	2	6	2^L	4	12	10	2^L*	21^L*	1^L*	10	8^L	1^L*	5	7	2^L	511
3	#5 Arrow McLaren SP	4^L	19	3	1^L	15	4^L	3^L	1^L	9	8	13	5^L	2^L	14^L	5	27	487
4	#9 Chip Ganassi Racing	3	5	1^L*	4^cL*	9^L	17^1L	8^L	7	4^L	4	2	17	19	3^L	13	3^L	481
5	#26 Andretti Autosport	22	1^L*	22	5	13	16^2L	14	4	2	13^L	19^L*	3^L	18^L	8	1^L*	1^L*	455
6	#8 Chip Ganassi Racing	8	7	19	12	10	11⁹	1^L	9	6	2^L	1^L	9	9	7^L	6	28	435
7	#15 Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	7	15	5	3^L	5	32^L	5^L	5	11	6	5	7	23	10^L*	4	16^L	389
8	#22 Team Penske	12	3^L	10	6	6	3^L	12	8	18	14	21	16^L	8^L	21	8	5	383
9	#12 Team Penske	2^L	8	14	13^L	11	30	20^L*	6	3	25	14	1^L*	3^L	13	26	10	357
10	#27 Andretti Autosport	9	21	8	20	7	29	7^L	13	7	5	17	4	17	2	25	6	332
11	#21 Ed Carpenter Racing	6^L	9	20	9^L	1^L	8^3L	2	18	12^L	16	24	24	21	17	18	25	327
12	#30 Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	13	6	9	14^L	16	14^L	4	12	8^L	10	25	10	6	12	27	9	324
13	#60 Meyer Shank Racing	11	4	7	17	23	18	16	19	17	19	15	6	10	4^L	15	7^L	308
14	#51 Dale Coyne Racing with Rick Ware Racing	10	13	15	21	2^L*	25	23^L	24	5	7	16^L	2	14	22	3^L	24	306
15	#3 Team Penske	14	11	2	8	8	20	19	20	14	12	22	23	4	9^L	12	11	305
16	#20 Ed Carpenter Racing	16	16	17	11^L	25	5⁴	13	15	20	15	12	11	22	16	16	21	271
17	#14 A. J. Foyt Enterprises	5^L	10	24	19	19	26	11	16	16	11	27	15	5^L	18	14	8	258
18	#28 Andretti Autosport	24	14	16	10	12^L	22⁷	21	11	13	24	4	18	7	15	11	23	256
19	#18 Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser-Sullivan	15	20	12	22	14	28	9^L	17	23	26	6	14	24	11^L	10	12	233
20	#29 Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport	17	18	23	18	18	21	17	14	15	17	3	22	15	27	20	14	220
21	#7 Arrow McLaren SP	21	12	13	16	17	27^L	25	25	24^L	23	8	13	16	6	19	13	217
22	#48 Chip Ganassi Racing	19	22	11	15	24	10⁵	24	21	22	22	26	19	13	20	17	17	204
23	#45 Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing						6^L	6	10		9	11	12^L		24	9	22^L	202
24	#59 Carlin	20	24	21	24	Wth	24	22	22	10^L	18	18	20	11	19	21	15	168
25	#06 Meyer Shank Racing						1^8L					9	21		23	24	20^L	158
26	#4 A. J. Foyt Enterprises	18	23	18	23	20	23	18	23	25	21	23	26	12	26	23	19	148
Pos	Entrant	ALA	STP	TXS		IGP1	INDY	DET		ROA	MDO	NSH	IGP2	GAT	POR	LAG	LBH	Pts

Pos	Manufacturer	ALA	STP	TXS		IGP	INDY	DET		ROA	MDO	NSH	IGP2	GAT	POR	LAG	LBH	Bonus	Pts
1	Honda	1	1	1	3	2	1	1	3	1	2	1	2	5	1	1	1	78	1401
		3	4	4	4	3	6	4	4	2	3	2	3	6	2	2	2
		90^W	88^PW	87^W	67	76^P	159^PP	87^W	67	95^W	75	96^PW	75	58	90	96^PW	95^W
2	Chevrolet	2	2	2	1	1	2	2	1	3	1	7	1	1	4	4	3	40	1238
		4	3	3	2	4	3	3	2	9	8	8	5	2	7	6	6
		73^P	75	75	95^W	87^W	115	76^P	96^PW	58^P	80^PW	50	86^PW	91^P	58	60	63