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2017 IndyCar season
Verizon IndyCar Series
Season
Races	17
Start date	March 12
End date	September 17
Awards
Drivers' champion	Josef Newgarden
Manufacturers' Cup	Chevrolet
Rookie of the Year	Ed Jones
Indianapolis 500 winner	Takuma Sato
Discipline champions
Oval champion	Hélio Castroneves
Road course champion	Josef Newgarden
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The 2017 Verizon IndyCar Series was the 22nd season of the Verizon IndyCar Series and the 96th official championship season of American open wheel racing. The premier event was the 101st Indianapolis 500 won by Takuma Sato. Josef Newgarden, the 2011 Indy Lights champion, in his sixth full-time season in the IndyCar Series, won the championship. It was Newgarden's first season as part of Team Penske, and he collected four wins, one pole position, and ten top-five finishes. It was Team Penske's 15th Indy car season championship, and third in four years.

Simon Pagenaud entered the season as the defending IndyCar champion, and finished second in points behind his teammate Newgarden. The 2017 season was the last season for the Honda/Chevy aerokits introduced in 2015, as 2018 will see the introduction of a new spec-aerokit.^[1]

All events from 2016 returned to the schedule. In addition, the series returned to Gateway Motorsports Park for the first time since 2003.

Series news

• On September 2, 2016, it was announced that Performance Friction Brakes has been selected as a brake rotor and pad supplier package for IndyCar Series starting from 2017 season onwards but Brembo remained as brake caliper until the end of 2017 season.^[2]

Teams and drivers

This chart represents announced teams, cars and their respective driver combinations for the 2017 season.

Team	Engine	No.	Driver(s)	Round(s)
A. J. Foyt Enterprises	Chevrolet[3]	4	Conor Daly[4]	All
		14	Carlos Muñoz[4]	All
		40	Zach Veach (R)[5]	6
Andretti Autosport	Honda[6]	26	Takuma Sato[7]	All
		28	Ryan Hunter-Reay[8]	All
Andretti Autosport with Lendium[9]		27	Marco Andretti[10]	1–4
Andretti Autosport with Yorrow[11]				5–17
Andretti Herta Autosport with Curb Agajanian		98	Alexander Rossi[12]	All
McLaren-Honda-Andretti[13]		29	Fernando Alonso (R)[13]	6
Michael Shank Racing with Andretti Autosport[14]		50	Jack Harvey (R)[15]	6
Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda[16]	8	Max Chilton[17]	All
		9	Scott Dixon[18]	All
		10	Tony Kanaan[19]	All
		83	Charlie Kimball[20]	All
Dale Coyne Racing	Honda[6]	18	Sébastien Bourdais[21]	1–5, 15–17
			James Davison[22]	6
			Esteban Gutiérrez (R)[23][24]	7–8, 10–14
			Tristan Vautier[25]	9
		19	Ed Jones (R)[26]	All
		63	Pippa Mann[27]	6
Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	Chevrolet	24	Sage Karam[28]	6
Ed Carpenter Racing	Chevrolet	20	Spencer Pigot[29]	1–3, 5, 7–8, 10, 12–13, 16–17
			Ed Carpenter[18]	4, 6, 9, 11, 14–15
		21	J.R. Hildebrand[30]	1–2, 4–17
			Zach Veach (R)[31]	3
Harding Racing	Chevrolet	88	Gabby Chaves[32]	6, 9, 14
Juncos Racing[33]	Chevrolet	11	Spencer Pigot[34]	6
		17	Sebastián Saavedra[35]	6
Lazier Partners Racing[36]	Chevrolet	44	Buddy Lazier[36]	6
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Honda[6]	13	Zachary Claman DeMelo (R)[37]	17
		15	Graham Rahal[18]	All
		16	Oriol Servià[38]	6–8
Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	Honda[6]	5	James Hinchcliffe[18]	All
		7	Mikhail Aleshin[39]	1–11, 13
			Sebastián Saavedra[40]	12, 14–15
			Jack Harvey (R)[41]	16–17
		77	Jay Howard[42]	6
Team Penske	Chevrolet	1	Simon Pagenaud[43][44]	All
		2	Josef Newgarden[43][45]	All
		3	Hélio Castroneves[43]	All
		12	Will Power[43]	All
		22	Juan Pablo Montoya[46]	5–6

Team changes

• 
  Chip Ganassi Racing announced their discount retail giants sponsor Target, effective from the 2017 IndyCar season, has discontinued sponsorship after 27 straight years of direct participation.^[47][48] The team also announced on October 7, 2016 that they would be returning to Honda in a multi year deal and thus discontinuing Chevrolet partnership. Ganassi had previously worked with Honda in 1996–99 (CART) and 2006–13 (IndyCar Series), when Jimmy Vasser, Alex Zanardi, Juan Pablo Montoya, Scott Dixon and Dario Franchitti won the CART and IndyCar title.


• 
  Larry Foyt, president of A. J. Foyt Enterprises, confirmed on October 13 that the team is switching manufacturers from Honda to Chevrolet, with the formal announcement on January 17.^[3]


• 
  KV Racing Technology will not race in 2017 due to Kevin Kalkhoven and James Sullivan withdrawing funding from the team.^[49] The team had been in negotiations with Carlin to sell their remaining equipment, but attempts to secure Indy Lights champion Ed Jones and Mikhail Aleshin fell through.


• On February 21, Juncos Racing confirmed^[33] it would field an entry for the 101st Indy 500 with support from Kevin Kalkhoven, following purchase of three cars and equipment from KV Racing Technology.^[50] The team entered two cars into the 101st Indy 500,^[51] opting to postpone the announcement of their drivers and engine partner until later.^[52] On May 9, the team announced that the first of their two entries would be driven by Spencer Pigot.^[34] Pigot had previously driven for the team in Indy Lights. On May 10, the team announced that Sebastián Saavedra would drive in the second car.^[35]


• On April 10, Harding Racing confirmed it would field an entry for the 101st Indy 500, driven by Gabby Chaves.^[32] On May 20, the team announced that it would also race at Texas Motor Speedway and Pocono Raceway in preparation for a possible full-season entry for 2018.^[53]

Driver changes

• On October 5, Team Penske announced that it had signed Josef Newgarden to drive the No. 2 car for 2017, demoting Juan Pablo Montoya to part-time driver status.


• On October 12, Dale Coyne Racing announced that it had signed Sébastien Bourdais to drive the No. 18 car for two seasons, replacing Conor Daly.^[21] Bourdais had driven for Coyne in 2011 after two seasons in Formula One.


• On October 31, Takuma Sato's manager confirmed that the Japanese driver would join Andretti Autosport as the driver of the No. 26 car for 2017, replacing Carlos Muñoz.^[54] The deal was officially announced by the team on December 2.^[7]


• Also on October 31, Team Penske announced Juan Pablo Montoya would return to the team to compete in the Indianapolis 500.^[46] The team later announced that Montoya would also be entered in the IndyCar Grand Prix.


• On November 4, it was confirmed that J. R. Hildebrand will take over the Ed Carpenter Racing No. 21 car for the 2017 season, replacing Josef Newgarden.^[30]


• On November 14, it was confirmed that 2016 Indy Lights champion Ed Jones signed with Dale Coyne Racing for the 2017 season to drive the No. 19 car, replacing Luca Filippi, Gabby Chaves, Pippa Mann, and R.C. Enerson.


• On November 15, A.J. Foyt Enterprises announced that Carlos Muñoz and Conor Daly would drive the teams No. 14 and No. 4 cars, respectively for the 2017 season, replacing Takuma Sato and Jack Hawksworth. Conor Daly debuted for Foyt in the 2013 Indianapolis 500.^[4]


• On January 16, news broke that Mikhail Aleshin had run into problems with his sponsor, placing his return for 2017 in doubt. Auto GP champion Luis Michael Dörrbecker and former Chip Ganassi Racing driver Sage Karam were in the picture for this seat as a replacement.^[55] However, on February 1, it was confirmed that Aleshin's sponsorship issues had been resolved and that he would return to the team for 2017.^[39]


• On February 2, Dreyer & Reinbold Racing announced that Sage Karam would return to the team to compete in the Indianapolis 500.^[28]


• On March 6, Schmidt Peterson Motorsports announced that Jay Howard would drive the No. 77 Honda in the Indianapolis 500. The entry will be supported by 1997 IndyCar Champion Tony Stewart.


• On March 28, Dale Coyne Racing announced that Pippa Mann would drive the No. 63 Honda in the Indianapolis 500. It will be the fifth consecutive year that Mann has driven for the team.^[27]


• On April 7, A.J. Foyt Enterprises announced that Firestone Indy Lights driver Zach Veach would drive the No. 40 Chevrolet at the Indianapolis 500.^[5]


• On April 9, Michael Shank Racing announced that Jack Harvey would drive the No. 50 Honda at the Indianapolis 500.^[15] The team will run with support from Andretti Autosport.


• On April 12, McLaren Honda announced a partnership with Andretti Autosport to enter a single car in the Indianapolis 500, to be driven by two-time F1 World Champion Fernando Alonso. The Spaniard skipped the Monaco Grand Prix in order to participate in the 500.^[13]


• On April 18, Ed Carpenter Racing announced that Zach Veach would fill in for J. R. Hildebrand for the race at Barber Motorsports Park.^[31] Hildebrand had suffered a broken bone in his left hand following an incident at the Grand Prix of Long Beach.^[56] Hildebrand was cleared to return for the following race at Phoenix International Raceway.^[57]


• On April 22, Buddy Lazier announced that he would be competing in the Indianapolis 500 for Lazier Partners Racing.^[36] It will be Lazier's 20th start in the race.


• On May 20, Sébastien Bourdais suffered multiple pelvic fractures and a fractured hip after a severe incident during qualifying for the Indy 500, forcing him to sit out the remainder of the season.^[58] The following day, Dale Coyne Racing announced that Indy 500 veteran James Davison would fill in for the 500.^[22]


• On June 1, Dale Coyne Racing announced that former Formula One driver Esteban Gutiérrez would pilot the No. 18 car at the Detroit Grand Prix.^[23] Following the race at Texas, Gutierrez was confirmed in the No. 18 car until Sébastien Bourdais' return at Gateway.


• On June 6, Dale Coyne Racing announced that Tristan Vautier would drive the No. 18 car at Texas Motor Speedway. Vautier was chosen after Gutiérrez was not able to complete an oval rookie test due to an IndyCar testing blackout period.


• On June 22, Schmidt Peterson Motorsports announced that Robert Wickens would drive the No. 7 car in place of Mikhail Aleshin for the Kohler Grand Prix due to issues with Aleshin's visa. Wickens partook in the first practice session, but Aleshin's visa issues were solved by Saturday, so Aleshin returned to the car for the rest of the weekend.


• On July 13, Schmidt Peterson Motorsports announced that Sebastián Saavedra would drive the No. 7 car in place of Mikhail Aleshin for the Honda Indy Toronto.^[40]


• On August 12, Schmidt Peterson Motorsports announced that Mikhail Aleshin would no longer race for the team.^[59] On August 16, the team announced that Sebastián Saavedra would return to the No. 7 car for the races at Pocono Raceway and Gateway Motorsports Park.^[60] On August 20, the team announced that Jack Harvey would drive the car for the final two races of the season at Watkins Glen and Sonoma.^[41]


• On August 23, Dale Coyne Racing announced that Sébastien Bourdais had recovered from his injuries sustained earlier in the season and would return to drive the final three races of the season.^[61]


• On September 6, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing announced that it would enter a second car for Zachary Claman DeMelo for the final race of the season at Sonoma.^[37]

Schedule

Rd.	Date	Race Name	Track	City
1	March 12	Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg	(S) Streets of St. Petersburg	St. Petersburg, Florida
2	April 9	Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach	(S) Streets of Long Beach	Long Beach, California
3	April 23	Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama	(R) Barber Motorsports Park	Birmingham, Alabama
4	April 29	Desert Diamond West Valley Phoenix Grand Prix	(O) Phoenix International Raceway	Avondale, Arizona
5	May 13	IndyCar Grand Prix	(R) Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course	Speedway, Indiana
6	May 28	101st Indianapolis 500 presented by PennGrade	(O) Indianapolis Motor Speedway	Speedway, Indiana
7	June 3	Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix Presented by Lear Corporation	(S) The Raceway at Belle Isle Park	Detroit, Michigan
8	June 4
9	June 10	Rainguard Water Sealers 600	(O) Texas Motor Speedway	Fort Worth, Texas
10	June 25	Kohler Grand Prix	(R) Road America	Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin
11	July 9	Iowa Corn 300	(O) Iowa Speedway	Newton, Iowa
12	July 16	Honda Indy Toronto	(S) Exhibition Place	Toronto, Ontario
13	July 30	Honda Indy 200	(R) Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Lexington, Ohio
14	August 20	ABC Supply 500	(O) Pocono Raceway	Long Pond, Pennsylvania
15	August 26	Bommarito Automotive Group 500 presented by Valvoline	(O) Gateway Motorsports Park	Madison, Illinois
16	September 3	Grand Prix at The Glen	(R) Watkins Glen International	Watkins Glen, New York
17	September 17	GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma	(R) Sonoma Raceway	Sonoma, California

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

All 16 races from 2016 will return. Gateway Motorsports Park returns to the schedule for the first time since 2003. The only other schedule change is the move of the race at Phoenix from the first weekend in April to the last weekend in April to avoid a conflict with the Final Four being held in nearby Glendale, Arizona. The Long Beach race will be the second race of the season as opposed to being the third race of the season in 2016.

The Grand Prix of Indianapolis was rebranded as the IndyCar Grand Prix for the 2017 running of the event following an announcement that Angie's List would no longer sponsor the event.^[62]

Season summary

Race results

Round	Race	Pole position	Fastest lap	Most laps led	Race Winners			Report
					Driver	Team	Manufacturer
1	St. Petersburg	Will Power	Scott Dixon	Sébastien Bourdais	Sébastien Bourdais	Dale Coyne Racing	Honda	Report
2	Long Beach	Hélio Castroneves	Hélio Castroneves	Scott Dixon	James Hinchcliffe	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	Honda	Report
3	Birmingham	Will Power	Will Power	Will Power	Josef Newgarden	Team Penske	Chevrolet	Report
4	Phoenix	Hélio Castroneves	Will Power	Simon Pagenaud	Simon Pagenaud	Team Penske	Chevrolet	Report
5	Indianapolis GP	Will Power	Josef Newgarden	Will Power	Will Power	Team Penske	Chevrolet	Report
6	Indianapolis 500	Scott Dixon	Takuma Sato	Max Chilton	Takuma Sato	Andretti Autosport	Honda	Report
7	Detroit 1	Graham Rahal[N 1]	Josef Newgarden	Graham Rahal	Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Honda	Report
8	Detroit 2	Takuma Sato[N 2]	Josef Newgarden	Graham Rahal	Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Honda
9	Texas	Charlie Kimball	Tony Kanaan	Will Power	Will Power	Team Penske	Chevrolet	Report
10	Road America	Hélio Castroneves	Josef Newgarden	Scott Dixon	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	Report
11	Iowa	Will Power	Hélio Castroneves	Hélio Castroneves	Hélio Castroneves	Team Penske	Chevrolet	Report
12	Toronto	Simon Pagenaud	Simon Pagenaud	Josef Newgarden	Josef Newgarden	Team Penske	Chevrolet	Report
13	Mid-Ohio	Will Power	Alexander Rossi	Josef Newgarden	Josef Newgarden	Team Penske	Chevrolet	Report
14	Pocono	Takuma Sato	Tony Kanaan	Scott Dixon	Will Power	Team Penske	Chevrolet	Report
15	Gateway	Will Power	Josef Newgarden	Josef Newgarden	Josef Newgarden	Team Penske	Chevrolet	Report
16	Watkins Glen	Alexander Rossi	Sébastien Bourdais	Alexander Rossi	Alexander Rossi	Andretti Herta Autosport with Curb Agajanian	Honda	Report
17	Sonoma	Josef Newgarden	Simon Pagenaud	Simon Pagenaud	Simon Pagenaud	Team Penske	Chevrolet	Report

Driver standings

Pos Driver STP LBH ALA PHX IMS INDY DET TEX ROA IOW TOR MDO POC GAT WGL SNM Pts QL 500 1 Josef Newgarden 8 3 1 9 11 22 19 4 2 13 2 6 1* 1* 2 1* 18 2 642 2 Simon Pagenaud 2 5 3 1* 4 23 14 16 5 3 4 7 5 4 4 3 9 1* 629 3 Scott Dixon 3 4* 2 5 2 1 32 2 6 9 1* 8 10 9 6* 2 2 4 621 4 Hélio Castroneves 6 9 4 4 5 19 2 7 9 20 3 1* 8 7 7 4 4 5 598 5 Will Power 19 13 14* 2 1* 9 23 18 3 1* 5 4 21 2 1 20 6 3 562 6 Graham Rahal 17 10 13 21 6 14 12 1* 1* 4 8 5 9 3 9 12 5 6 522 7 Alexander Rossi 11 19 5 15 8 3 7 5 7 22 13 11 2 6 3 6 1* 21 494 8 Takuma Sato 5 18 9 16 12 4 1 8 4 10 19 16 16 5 13 19 19 20 441 9 Ryan Hunter-Reay 4 17 11 13 3 10 27 13 17 19 14 3 6 8 8 15 3 8 421 10 Tony Kanaan 12 15 7 6 20 7 5 15 10 2 21 9 19 16 5 16 20 16 403 11 Max Chilton 16 14 12 20 7 15 4* 11 15 8 9 14 7 15 18 17 8 12 396 12 Marco Andretti 7 20 21 18 16 8 8 12 13 6 18 17 4 12 11 14 16 7 388 13 James Hinchcliffe 9 1 6 12 13 17 22 3 20 14 20 10 3 11 20 8 21 22 376 14 Ed Jones  RY  10 6 16 11 19 11 3 9 22 17 7 18 20 21 17 13 13 19 354 15 J. R. Hildebrand 13 11 3 14 6 16 17 18 12 16 2 13 17 19 18 15 14 347 16 Carlos Muñoz 21 7 17 10 15 24 10 14 11 18 11 20 15 18 10 9 10 15 328 17 Charlie Kimball 18 21 15 8 21 16 25 21 8 21 6 15 12 13 16 7 7 11 327 18 Conor Daly 15 16 18 14 17 26 30 22 12 7 15 19 17 10 14 5 11 10 305 19 Mikhail Aleshin 14 12 10 17 18 13 13 6 16 15 10 21 14 237 20 Spencer Pigot 20 8 20 9 29 18 10 21 12 18 19 12 13 218 21 Sébastien Bourdais 1* 2 8 19 22 Wth 10 17 9 214 22 Ed Carpenter 7 2 11 11 12 12 21 169 23 Gabby Chaves 25 9 5 15 98 24 Juan Pablo Montoya 10 18 6 93 25 Esteban Gutiérrez  R  19 14 17 13 14 20 22 91 26 Sebastián Saavedra 31 15 11 21 11 80 27 Oriol Servià 12 21 20 19 61 28 Jack Harvey  R  27 31 14 18 57 29 Fernando Alonso  R  5 24 47 30 Pippa Mann 28 17 32 31 Zachary Claman DeMelo  R  17 26 32 Jay Howard 20 33 24 33 Zach Veach  R  19 32 26 23 34 Sage Karam 21 28 23 35 James Davison 33 20 21 36 Tristan Vautier 16 15 37 Buddy Lazier 30 29 14 Pos Driver STP LBH ALA PHX IMS INDY DET TEX ROA IOW TOR MDO POC GAT WGL SNM Pts

Color Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green 4th & 5th place Light Blue 6th–10th place Dark Blue Finished (Outside Top 10) Purple Did not finish Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Brown Withdrawn (Wth) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did Not Start (DNS) Race abandoned (C) Blank Did not participate In-line notation Bold Pole position (1 point; except Indy) Italics Ran fastest race lap * Led most race laps (2 points) DNS Any driver who qualifies but does not start (DNS), earns half the points had they taken part. 1 Qualifying canceled no bonus point awarded  RY  Rookie of the Year  R  Rookie

• One (1) championship point is awarded to each driver who leads at least one race lap. Two (2) additional championship points are awarded to the driver who leads most laps during a race.


• At all races except the Indy 500, the number 1 qualifier earns one (1) point. At double header races, the fastest qualifier of each qualifying group earns one championship point.^[63]


• Entrant-initiated engine change-outs before the engines reach their required distance run will result in the loss of ten (-10) points.
  
  • NOTE: The distance run will be based on the total distance raced by that entrant with the engine in question, regardless of driver.


• Ties are broken by number of wins, followed by number of 2nds, 3rds, etc., then by number of pole positions, followed by number of times qualified 2nd, etc.

Manufacturer standings

Pos	Manufacturer	STP	LBH	ALA	PHX	IMS	INDY	DET		TEX	ROA	IOW	TOR	MDO	POC	GAT	WGL	SNM	Bonus	Points
1	Chevrolet	2	3	1	1	1	2	4	2	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	4	1	70	1489
		6	5	3	2	4	10	7	3	3	3	2	5	2	2	3	6	2
		69	66	91*	96*	88*	61	58	75	90*	76	96*	86*	96*	95	91*	60	186*
2	Honda	1	1	2	5	2	1	1	1	2	1	3	2	3	3	2	1	4	85	1326
		3	2	5	6	3	3	2	4	4	6	5	3	5	5	6	2	6
		90*	95*	70	58	75	92*	96*	88*	73	83*	65	75	65	66*	68	96*	120

• All manufacturer points (including qualifying points, race finish points, and race win bonus points) can only be earned by full-season entrants.^[64]


• The top two finishing entrants from each manufacturer in each race score championship points for their respective manufacturer. The manufacturer that wins each race will be awarded five (5) additional points.


• At all races except the Indy 500, the manufacturer who qualifies on pole earns one (1) point. At the Indy 500, the fastest Saturday qualifier earns one (1) point, while the pole position winner on Sunday earns two (2) points.


• For every full-season engine used during the Indy 500 that reaches 2,000 total miles run, the manufacturer earns bonus points equal to that engine's finishing position in the race.


• Ties are broken by number of wins, followed by number of 2nds, 3rds, etc.

Footnotes

References

External links

• Official website