Fast Facts heading to the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix presented by Lear

There is no rest for most drivers that last weekend competed in the 107th running of the Indianapolis 500 as they head to the streets of Detroit and the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix presented by Lear, the latest round of the NTT IndyCar Series.

Drivers will compete on the 1.7 mile (2.735km) nine turn temporary street course over 100 laps with the race timed to get underway at 3:30pm local time on Sunday 4 June 2023 (7:30am Monday NZ time).

Scott Dixon will attempt to make his 312th consecutive start, the second-longest streak in IndyCar Series history.

Here are the Fast Facts:

There have been five different winners in six NTT INDYCAR SERIES races to start the 2023 season. Marcus Ericsson (Streets of St. Petersburg), Josef Newgarden (Texas Motor Speedway and Indianapolis 500), Kyle Kirkwood (Streets of Long Beach), Scott McLaughlin (Barber Motorsports Park), and Alex Palou (Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course-1) have all won in 2023. The record for the most different winners in a season is 11 in 2000, 2001 and 2014.

***Scott McLaughlin – 2022 Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix -Photo James Black***

The Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix presented by Lear will be the first INDYCAR SERIES race held on the new nine-turn, 1.7-mile downtown Detroit street circuit and the 33rd INDYCAR SERIES race held in the Motor City. A 2.5-mile street circuit in downtown Detroit hosted CART events from 1989-1991 before the event moved to Belle Isle Park in 1992.

Will Power, Scott Dixon and Helio Castroneves each won three times at the Raceway at Belle Isle Park and are tied for most wins by an INDYCAR SERIES driver in the Detroit Grand Prix. In addition to Power, Castroneves and Dixon, other previous Detroit Grand Prix race winners entered include Pato O’Ward (2021 Race #2), Marcus Ericsson (2021 Race #1) Josef Newgarden (2019 Race #1), Simon Pagenaud (2013 Race #2) and Graham Rahal (2017 Race #1 and Race #2).

The driver who has gone on to win the championship has won at Detroit seven times. Josef Newgarden won Race #1 on Belle Isle in 2019, Scott Dixon won Race #1 on Belle Isle in 2018, Will Power won on Belle Isle in 2022 and won Race #2 on Belle Isle in 2014, Alex Zanardi won on Belle Isle in 1998, Bobby Rahal won at Belle Isle in 1992 and Emerson Fittipaldi won in downtown Detroit in 1989.