IndyCar at Indianapolis road course: How to watch, start times, TV, schedules, streaming

IndyCar Grand Prix start times: Indianapolis Motor Speedway is open for business this weekend, but it’s the track’s 14-turn, 2.439-mile road course that officially will kick off the Month of May at the Brickyard.

Rinus VeeKay is the defending winner of the race, which marked his first NTT IndyCar Series victory last year.

Josef Newgarden, who won on the IMS road course in 2020, is eligible to capture the PeopleReady Force For Good Challenge — a $500,000 bonus and matching $500,000 donation to his charities (Wags and Walk Nashville and SeriousFun Children’s Network). The award goes to a driver who wins on an oval, street course and road course (Newgarden has the first two with victories at Texas and Long Beach).

There are 27 entries for Saturday’s race with Juan Pablo Montoya making his first start this season in a third Dallara-Chevrolet for Arrow McLaren SP.

This will be the 12th IndyCar race on the IMS road course. Will Power has a series-high five victories on the IMS road course, and Simon Pagenaud (three wins) and Scott Dixon (one) also are past winners on the layout.

Power won the pole position Friday, marking the sixth time he has qualified first on the IMS road course.

The green flag for the race was moved up 38 minutes Saturday morning to 3:07 p.m. ET because of the threat of inclement weather.

Here are the details and IndyCar start times for the 2022 IndyCar GMR Grand Prix at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course race weekend (all times are ET):

TV: Saturday, 3 p.m. ET on NBC and streaming on Peacock, the NBC Sports App and NBCSports.com. Leigh Diffey is the announcer with analysts Townsend Bell and James Hinchcliffe. Marty Snider, Kevin Lee and Dillon Welch are the pit reporters. Click here for the full