Round 7. Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix, June 3-5.

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Round 7. Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix, June 3-5.

On November 3, 2021, Detroit City Council and Penske Entertainment reached an agreement to move the Detroit Grand Prix back to downtown Detroit and the streets around The Renaissance Center, making this year's event the last time IndyCar will race at Belle Isle and ending a 30 year association with AOWR, which began with CART in 1992. The race will also be a single race event, ending the series of double headers,
which had been held since 2013.

Detroit was originally the venue for the F1 Detroit Grand Prix, held from 1982-1988. It was dropped from the F1 calendar after 1988, when F1's governing body FISA declared the temporary pit area sub standard and because of the driver's dislike of the event due to track disintegration, which was particularly bad that year. It was planned to move the F1 Grand Prix to Belle Isle in 1989 but no agreement was finalised and F1 went to Phoenix from 1989-1991 and Detroit became a CART event, with the race held on a slightly modified version of the F1 track.

In 1992, the event finally moved to Belle Isle, where it became a perennial fixture on the CART calendar, up to and including 2001, during which time the track was extended from 2.1 mi (3.4 km), to 2.36 mi (3.80 km) in 1998.

The race was revived from 2007-2008, as part of the IRL's IndyCar Series, using the original CART layout but with Turn 8 tightened. However, it was cancelled from 2009-2011, due to the downturn in Detroit's automotive industry and the city's economic problems. The race was revived again in 2012 and since 2013 the track reverted to the 1998-2001 CART layout, with changes to Turn 3 and 7 and The Strand. In 2020 the Detroit Grand Prix was cancelled because of the Covid-19 pandemic, returning to the IndyCar calendar last year.

Some Trivia:
Hélio Castroneves got his first CART win at Detroit in 2000, driving a Reynard 2Ki-Honda HR-0 V8t, for Marlboro Team Penske

Driver with the most wins, 3
Hélio Castroneves 2000, 2001, 2014.
Scott Dixon 2012, 2018, 2019

The team with the most wins, 9.
Team Penske: 1991, 1994, 2000, 2001, 2014 Race 1 and 2, 2016, 2018, 2019.

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Track:
Length: 2.35 Mile (3.78 km)
Turns: 14

Lap record:
Takuma Sato, 4 Jun 2017.
1:13.6732, 114.831 mph (184.802 kmh).
Andretti Autosport,
Dallara DW12- Honda HI17TT Indy V-6,
Verizon IndyCar Series.

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1982-1988 F1 track layout:



1992-1997 Original CART track layout:



1998-2001 CART track layout:



Current track layout:


Last Year's Races:

Race 1
https://www.motorsport.com/indycar/n...obbed/6562640/

Pole:
Pato O'Ward, 1:15.5776, 111.938 Mph (180.1467487 km/h).
Arrow McLaren SP.
Dallara IR18-Chevy IndyCar V6.

Winner:
Marcus Ericsson,
Chip Ganassi Racing
Dallara IR18-Honda HI21R Indy-V-6.

Laps: 70
Distance: 164.5 Miles (162.624 km)
Race Time: 1:15:30.5932
Average Speed: 99.285 mph (264.737 kmh)
Fastest lap: Josef Newgarden, Team Penske. Lap 56. 76.5266 sec, 110.381mph (177.641 km/h)

Caution periods: 2
Laps: 24 - 30, 65 - 66.

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Race 2
https://www.motorsport.com/indycar/n...arden/6565608/

Pole:
Josef Newgarden, 1:14.1094, 114.156 mph (183.716 km/h)
Team Penske,
Dallara IR18-Chevy IndyCar V6

Winner:
Pato O'Ward,
Arrow McLaren SP.
Dallara IR18-Chevy IndyCar V6

Laps: 70
Distance: 164.5 Miles (264.737 km)
Race Time: 1:41:30.8814
Average Speed: 97.227 mph (156.472 km/h)
Fastest lap: Colton Herta, Andretti Autosport w/ Curb-Agajanian. Lap 50, 76.3434 sec, 110.815 mph (178.339 km/h)

Caution periods: 3
Laps: 1 - 3, 54 - 57, 59 - 62

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Practice and Qualifications
Friday, Jun 3 - Practice 1, 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM ET

Saturday, Jun 4 - Practice 2, 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM ET

Saturday, Jun 4 - Qualifications - Round 1 Group 1, 12:35 PM - 12:45 PM ET
Saturday, Jun 4 - Qualifications - Round 1 Group 2, 12:55 PM - 1:05 PM ET
Saturday, Jun 4 - Qualifications - Round 2, 1:15 PM - 1:25 PM ET
Saturday, Jun 4 - Qualifications - Firestone Fast 6, 1:35 PM - 1:50 PM ET

Race broadcast:
Sunday, Jun 5. USA, 3:00 PM ET, 7:00 PM UTC
Sky Sports F1, 8:00 PM BST