Indianapolis Motor Speedway (iRacing)

Indianapolis Motor Speedway

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Location	Speedway, Indiana
Country	USA
Configurations
Oval 2.5 mi 4.02 km Road Course 2.60 mi 4.18 km Oval IndyCar (2009) 2.5 mi 4.02 km Oval NASCAR (2009) 2.5 mi 4.02 km Road Course (2009) 2.60 mi 4.19 km Bike Course (2009) 2.62 mi 4.21 km

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The first motorsports competition at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway took place in 1909 in the form of motorcycle races and automobile races soon followed. When the track’s original surface of crushed stone and tar proved problematic, the owners paved the track with more than 3 million bricks, giving rise to the nickname: “The Brickyard.”

It wasn’t until Memorial Day of 1911, however, that the first 500 mile race was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and won by Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp. What was destined to be known as the Indianapolis 500 quickly became one of the nation’s leading sports events in the 1920s and ’30s. To win the “Indy 500″ was to achieve instant notoriety, and the names of early winners like Tommy Milton, Louis Meyer and Wilbur Shaw are indelibly etched in the annals of American motorsports.

A nationwide ban on motorsports during World War II, however nearly spelled the end for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which lay in virtual ruin when a consortium headed by Indiana businessman Tony Hulman purchased the facility in 1945. Hulman and his partners invested heavily in the facility and expanded the spectator capacity to the point where IMS became the world’s largest sporting arena (in terms of permanent seats) and the Indy 500 the world’s largest single-day sports event with crowds regularly topping 350,000. The march of progress also included the gradual replacement of paving over the bricks, and by 1961 the resurfacing had been completed – all but the famous “yard of bricks” at the start/finish line as a tribute to the tradition of “The Brickyard.”

The 1990s saw major changes to the speedway. In 1994, IMS president Tony George (grandson of Tony Hulman) consummated an agreement with NASCAR to stage a stock car race – the Brickyard 400 – at the Speedway. Then in 2000, George brought Formula One racing back to the USA after a nine-year absence, staging the U.S. Grand Prix at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

To do so, however, required a massive renovation of the facility, including the construction of a road course that combined a portion of the oval with a twisting infield section. Although the F1 race would only last through 2007, the road course has since played host to MotoGP and sports car races as well as a stand-alone IndyCar race in early May. Together with the Indianapolis 500 and Brickyard 400, this remarkable variety of events underscores the Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s moniker as “The Racing Capital of the World.”

Configurations

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  Oval

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  Road Course

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  Oval IndyCar (2009)

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  Oval NASCAR (2009)

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  Road Course (2009)

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  Bike Course (2009)

Race Results

eNASCAR PEAK Antifreeze iRacing Series

Season	Pole position	Race Winner		Broadcast
		Driver	Team
2010	Richard Towler	Brad Davies
2011	Brad Davies	Brad Davies
2012	Ray Alfalla	Ray Alfalla
2013	Ray Alfalla	Jon Adams	Wheelmen Inc.
2014	Ray Alfalla	Ray Alfalla	Slip Angle Motorsports
2015	Ray Alfalla	Nick Ottinger	Gale Force Racing
2016	Kenny Humpe	Dylan Duval	The TEAM
2017	Zack Novak	Zack Novak	Lockdown Racing
2018	Brad Davies	Logan Clampitt	Lockdown Racing
2019	Jimmy Mullis	Corey Vincent	Team Renegades
2020	Michael Conti	Keegan Leahy	Denny Hamlin Racing

iRacing World Championship Grand Prix Series

Season	Pole position	Fastest lap	Race Winner		Broadcast
			Driver	Team
2010	Richard Towler	Greger Huttu	Richard Towler	Privateer
2011	Hugo Luis	Hugo Luis	Greger Huttu	Team Redline
2012	Hugo Luis	Greger Huttu	Greger Huttu	Team Redline
2013	Fulvio Barozzini	Jake Stergios	Fulvio Barozzini	Mortadella Motor Mission
2015	Greger Huttu	Greger Huttu	Greger Huttu	Team Redline
2016	Martin Krönke	Martin Krönke	Martin Krönke	VRS Coanda Simsport
2017	Mitchell deJong	Martin Krönke	Martin Krönke	VRS Coanda Simsport
2018	Martin Krönke	Martin Krönke	Martin Krönke	VRS Coanda Simsport