Road America, a 4.014-mile, 14-turn permanent road course (clockwise), in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin hosts this weekend’s NTT IndyCar Series round with the running of the XPEL Grand Prix at Road America Presented by AMR, timed to go at 1:27pm Sunday 21 June 2026 local time (Monday 6:27am NZ time).
There have been five winners in the first nine NTT INDYCAR SERIES races this season. Alex Palou (Streets of St. Petersburg, Barber Motorsports Park, Streets of Long Beach and Streets of Detroit), Josef Newgarden (Phoenix Raceway, World Wide Technology Raceway), Kyle Kirkwood (Streets of Arlington), Christian Lundgaard (Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course) and Felix Rosenqvist (Indianapolis 500).
The XPEL Grand Prix at Road America Presented by AMR will be the 37th INDYCAR SERIES event conducted at Road America since it hosted its first INDYCAR event in 1982. Mario Andretti, Michael Andretti, Emerson Fittipaldi and Alex Palou have three wins, the most by an INDYCAR SERIES driver at the track.
Alex Palou’s three wins are the most by an active driver at Road America. Scott Dixon, Josef Newgarden and Will Power have each won twice at Road America. Other previous Road America winners entered include Alexander Rossi and Felix Rosenqvist.
The driver who has gone on to win the championship has won at Road America 10 times: Mario Andretti (1984), Michael Andretti (1991), Jacques Villeneuve (1995), Alex Zanardi (1997), Cristiano da Matta (2002), Sebastien Bourdais (2007), Scott Dixon (2020) and Alex Palou (2021, 2023, 2025).
Scott Dixon and Will Power have competed in 13 previous races at Road America, most of any driver. Sixteen entered drivers have led laps at the track: Josef Newgarden 159, Will Power 76, Scott Dixon 70, Alexander Rossi 70, Pato O’Ward 43, Scott McLaughlin 26, Alex Palou 24, Felix Rosenqvist 20, Marcus Armstrong 5, Christian Lundgaard 5, Graham Rahal 5, Kyle Kirkwood 4, Marcus Ericsson 4, Louis Foster 3, David Malukas 2 and Kyffin Simpson 2.
Chip Ganassi Racing has won eight times at Road America (1997, 2001, 2017, a sweep of the 2020 doubleheader, 2021, 2023 and 2025), including five of the last seven INDYCAR SERIES races at “America’s National Park of Speed.” CGR is one of three current teams with wins at the track. Team Penske has won seven times at Road America (1989, 1992, 1993, 2016, 2018, 2022 and 2024) while Andretti Global won in 2019.
Rookies Caio Collet, Dennis Hauger and Mick Schumacher will race an NTT INDYCAR SERIES car at Road America for the first time this weekend. Collet won the INDY NXT race at the track in 2025.
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