IndyCar at Toronto on Peacock: How to watch, start times, streaming info, schedules

IndyCar Toronto start times: The wakeup call came when a jet-lagged Christian Lundgaard awoke in his room at the JW Marriott in downtown Indianapolis last August.

Weighing whether to join the IndyCar Series full time, Lundgaard was watching the inaugural Music City Grand Prix through the streets of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, when Marcus Ericsson’s car suddenly went airborne on Lap 5.

Lundgaard, who had flown overnight from Europe (where he was racing in the F2 Series), drifted to sleep until after the checkered flag – when the sight of the victory celebration had the Dane rubbing his eyes.

Marcus Ericsson had won at Nashville?

“I was like no way, something must be wrong,” Lundgaard recently told NBC Sports. “This just proves that this series is so competitive, but at the same time, anything can happen.

“That made me even more motivated because I knew anything could happen, no matter where I started. I came in with zero expectations. Just learn, enjoy and have fun.”

Six days later, Lundgaard reaffirmed that mantra in his IndyCar debut with Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, qualifying fourth and finishing 12th at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course.

Nine races into his rookie IndyCar season, Lundgaard has enjoyed mixed results while awaiting his Ericsson-type moment to arrive. He is 17th in the points standings (but tops among this year’s five full-time freshmen drivers) with a season-best (and rain-soaked) ninth at the IMS road course (also the only track where he advanced past the first round of qualifying).

But though his No. 30 Dallara-Honda has placed consistently between ninth and 11th, he still believes he could breakthrough in the second half – perhaps Sunday on the streets of Toronto (3 p.m. ET,