2024 Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg
Indycar race held in St. Petersburg, Florida
Race details | |
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1st round of the 2024 IndyCar season | |
Layout of the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg | |
Date | March 10, 2024 |
Official name | Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg |
Location | Streets of St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Florida |
Course | Temporary street circuit 1.800 mi / 2.897 km |
Distance | 100 laps 180.000 mi / 289.682 km |
Pole position | |
Driver | Josef Newgarden (Team Penske) |
Time | 59.5714 |
Fastest lap | |
Driver | Kyffin Simpson (Chip Ganassi Racing) |
Time | 1:00.8779 (on lap 88 of 100) |
Podium | |
First | Pato O'Ward (Arrow McLaren) |
Second | Will Power (Team Penske) |
Third | Colton Herta (Andretti Global) |
Motor car race
The 2024 Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg was the first round of the 2024 IndyCar season. The race was held on March 10, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Florida at the Streets of St. Petersburg. The race consisted of 100 laps and was won by Pato O'Ward, making it his first victory on this event, after the original winner Josef Newgarden was disqualified two months following the race for push-to-pass violations.[1][2]
Entry list
Key | Meaning |
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R | Rookie |
W | Past winner |
Practice
Practice 1
Pos | No. | Driver | Team | Engine | Lap Time |
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1 | 60 | Felix Rosenqvist | Meyer Shank Racing | Honda | 1:00.3390 |
2 | 5 | Pato O'Ward | Arrow McLaren | Chevrolet | 1:00.8112 |
3 | 11 | Marcus Armstrong | Chip Ganassi Racing | Honda | 1:00.8182 |
Source:[4] |
Practice 2
Pos | No. | Driver | Team | Engine | Lap Time |
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1 | 26 | Colton Herta | Andretti Global | Honda | 1:00.1331 |
2 | 2 | Josef Newgarden | Team Penske | Chevrolet | 1:00.3872 |
3 | 12 | Will Power | Team Penske | Chevrolet | 1:00.4101 |
Source:[5] |
Qualifying
Qualifying was held at 2:00 PM ET on March 9, 2023.
Qualifying classification
Pos | No. | Driver | Team | Engine | Time | Final grid | |||
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Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | |||||||
Group 1 | Group 2 | ||||||||
1 | 2 | Josef Newgarden W | Team Penske | Chevrolet | 59.5699 | N/A | 59.3214 | 59.5714 | 1 |
2 | 60 | Felix Rosenqvist | Meyer Shank Racing | Honda | N/A | 59.6220 | 59.2706 | 59.5772 | 2 |
3 | 5 | Pato O'Ward | Arrow McLaren | Chevrolet | 59.5507 | N/A | 59.5382 | 59.6540 | 3 |
4 | 26 | Colton Herta W | Andretti Global | Honda | N/A | 59.5596 | 59.3157 | 59.8189 | 4 |
5 | 77 | Romain Grosjean | Juncos Hollinger Racing | Chevrolet | N/A | 59.5709 | 59.5074 | 1:00.0642 | 5 |
6 | 28 | Marcus Ericsson W | Andretti Global | Honda | 59.3703 | N/A | 59.4484 | 1:03.5583 | 6 |
7 | 21 | Rinus VeeKay | Ed Carpenter Racing | Chevrolet | 59.5805 | N/A | 59.5501 | N/A | 7 |
8 | 12 | Will Power W | Team Penske | Chevrolet | N/A | 59.6888 | 59.5594 | N/A | 8 |
9 | 3 | Scott McLaughlin W | Team Penske | Chevrolet | 59.6202 | N/A | 59.5741 | N/A | 9 |
10 | 11 | Marcus Armstrong | Chip Ganassi Racing | Honda | 59.5263 | N/A | 59.6127 | N/A | 10 |
11 | 9 | Scott Dixon | Chip Ganassi Racing | Honda | N/A | 59.7200 | 59.8483 | N/A | 11 |
12 | 45 | Christian Lundgaard | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing | Honda | N/A | 59.7940 | 1:00.0172 | N/A | 12 |
13 | 10 | Álex Palou | Chip Ganassi Racing | Honda | 59.7897 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 13 |
14 | 14 | Santino Ferrucci | A. J. Foyt Racing | Chevrolet | N/A | 59.8182 | N/A | N/A | 14 |
15 | 7 | Alexander Rossi | Arrow McLaren | Chevrolet | 59.8164 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 15 |
16 | 6 | Callum Ilott | Arrow McLaren | Chevrolet | N/A | 59.8911 | N/A | N/A | 16 |
17 | 66 | Tom Blomqvist R | Meyer Shank Racing | Honda | 59.9968 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 17 |
18 | 27 | Kyle Kirkwood | Andretti Global | Honda | N/A | 59.9102 | N/A | N/A | 18 |
19 | 8 | Linus Lundqvist R | Chip Ganassi Racing | Honda | 1:00.0034 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 19 |
20 | 78 | Agustín Canapino | Juncos Hollinger Racing | Chevrolet | N/A | 59.9308 | N/A | N/A | 20 |
21 | 20 | Christian Rasmussen R | Ed Carpenter Racing | Chevrolet | 1:00.2021 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 21 |
22 | 15 | Graham Rahal W | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing | Honda | N/A | 1:00.0953 | N/A | N/A | 22 |
23 | 4 | Kyffin Simpson R | Chip Ganassi Racing | Honda | 1:00.2956 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 23 |
24 | 41 | Sting Ray Robb | A. J. Foyt Racing | Chevrolet | N/A | 1:00.4125 | N/A | N/A | 24 |
25 | 51 | Colin Braun R | Dale Coyne Racing w/ Rick Ware Racing | Honda | 1:01.3044 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 25 |
26 | 30 | Pietro Fittipaldi | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing | Honda | N/A | 1:00.5336 | N/A | N/A | 26 |
27 | 18 | Jack Harvey | Dale Coyne Racing | Honda | N/A | 1:00.5712 | N/A | N/A | 27 |
Source:[6] |
- Notes
- Bold text indicates fastest time set in session.
Warmup
Pos | No. | Driver | Team | Engine | Lap Time |
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1 | 26 | Colton Herta | Andretti Global | Honda | 59.9267 |
2 | 9 | Scott Dixon | Chip Ganassi Racing | Honda | 59.9734 |
3 | 10 | Álex Palou | Chip Ganassi Racing | Honda | 1:00.0292 |
Source:[7] |
Race
The race was held at 12:15 PM ET on March 10, 2023.
Race classification
Notes
- ^1 – Power was given a 10-point penalty due to a Push to Pass violation.
- ^2 – Newgarden and McLaughlin were disqualified for Push to Pass violations.
Championship standings after the race
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- Note: Only the top five positions are included.
References
- ^ "INDYCAR Announces St. Petersburg Penalties".
- ^ "Josef Newgarden stripped of season-opening IndyCar victory for manipulating push-to-pass system". AP News. 2024-04-24. Retrieved 2024-04-26.
- ^ "Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg entry list" (PDF). March 5, 2024. Retrieved March 10, 2024.
- ^ Practice 1 results
- ^ Practice 2 results
- ^ Official Qualification results
- ^ Warmup results
- ^ Official race results
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Andretti | Ganassi | Arrow McLaren | Carpenter | |||||
26 Herta 27 Kirkwood | 28 Ericsson | 4 Simpson 8 Lundqvist | 9 Dixon 10 Palou | 11 Armstrong | 5 O'Ward 6 Pourchaire | 7 Rossi | 20 Rasmussen / Carpenter 21 VeeKay | |
Penske | RLL | Coyne | Foyt | Juncos Hollinger | Meyer Shank | |||
2 Newgarden 3 McLaughlin | 12 Power | 15 Rahal 30 Fittipaldi | 45 Lundgaard | 18 Harvey / Siegel 51 Braun / Siegel / Ghiotto / Legge | 14 Ferrucci 41 Robb | 77 Grosjean 78 Canapino | 60 Rosenqvist 66 Blomqvist |
Andretti (Andretti), Castroneves (Meyer Shank), Daly (DRR), Hunter-Reay (DRR), Ilott (Arrow McLaren), Larson (McLaren-Hendrick), Malukas (Arrow McLaren), Sato (RLL)