2021_Indy_Lights

2021 Indy Lights season
2021 Indy Lights season
Indy Lights
Season
Races	20
Start date	April 17
End date	October 3
Awards
Drivers' champion	Kyle Kirkwood
Teams' champion	HMD Motorsports
Rookie of the Year	Kyle Kirkwood
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2021 Indy Lights

Indy Lights season

The 2021 Indy Lights season was the 35th season of the Indy Lights open wheel motor racing series and the 19th sanctioned by IndyCar, acting as the primary support series for the IndyCar Series. After going into a hiatus in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the season started on April 17 at Barber Motorsports Park and was held over 20 races spanning ten meetings.^[1]

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Entry list has Global Racing Group as a separate team of two cars, while official points list HMD and GRG as the same team.

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Entry list has Andretti / Andretti Steinbrenner as two teams with one and three cars, while official teams standings list it as a single team.

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Team	No.	Drivers	Round(s)
Andretti Autosport	27	Robert Megennis^[3]	All
	28	Kyle Kirkwood^[4]	All
	68	Danial Frost^[5]	All
Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport	17	Devlin DeFrancesco^[6]	All
Carlin^[7]^[8]	5	Alex Peroni^[7]^[9]	1–14
Carlin^[7]^[8]	7	Christian Bogle^[10]	All
Global Racing Group with HMD Motorsports^[11]^[12]^[13]	24	Benjamin Pedersen^[14]	All
Global Racing Group with HMD Motorsports^[11]^[12]^[13]	26	Linus Lundqvist^[15]	All
HMD Motorsports^[16]	59	Nikita Lastochkin^[17]	1–12
	59	Manuel Sulaimán^[18]	15–20
	79	David Malukas^[19]	All
Juncos Racing^[20] Juncos Hollinger Racing¹^[21]	2	Sting Ray Robb^[22]	All
	51	Toby Sowery^[23]	1–14
	51	Rasmus Lindh^[24]	15–20
Pserra Racing/AS Promotions	11	Antonio Serravalle^[25]	1–14, 19–20

Rd.	Date	Race name	Track	Location
1	April 17–18	Indy Lights Grand Prix of Barber Motorsports Park Presented by Cooper Tires	R Barber Motorsports Park	Birmingham, Alabama
2	April 17–18		R Barber Motorsports Park	Birmingham, Alabama
3	April 24–25	Indy Lights Grand Prix of St. Petersburg Presented by Foundation Building Materials	R Streets of St. Petersburg	St. Petersburg, Florida
4	April 24–25	Indy Lights Grand Prix of St. Petersburg Presented by Andersen Interior Contracting	R Streets of St. Petersburg	St. Petersburg, Florida
5	May 14–15	Indy Lights Grand Prix of Indianapolis Presented by Cooper Tires	R Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course	Speedway, Indiana
6	May 14–15		R Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course	Speedway, Indiana
7	June 12–13	Indy Lights Grand Prix of Detroit Presented by Cooper Tires	R The Raceway at Belle Isle Park	Detroit, Michigan
8	June 12–13	Indy Lights Grand Prix of Detroit Presented by Cooper Tires	R The Raceway at Belle Isle Park	Detroit, Michigan
9	June 19–20	Cooper Tires Grand Prix of Road America Powered by AER	R Road America	Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin
10	June 19–20	Cooper Tires Grand Prix of Road America Powered by AER	R Road America	Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin
11	July 3–4	Cooper Tires Indy Lights Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio	R Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Lexington, Ohio
12	July 3–4	Cooper Tires Indy Lights Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio	R Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Lexington, Ohio
13	August 20–21	Cooper Tires Indy Lights Oval Challenge of St. Louis	O Gateway Motorsports Park	Madison, Illinois
14	August 20–21	Cooper Tires Indy Lights Oval Challenge of St. Louis	O Gateway Motorsports Park	Madison, Illinois
15	September 11–12	Cooper Tires Indy Lights Grand Prix of Portland	R Portland International Raceway	Portland, Oregon
16	September 11–12	Cooper Tires Indy Lights Grand Prix of Portland	R Portland International Raceway	Portland, Oregon
17	September 18–19	Indy Lights Grand Prix of Monterey Presented by Cooper Tires	R WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca	Monterey, California
18	September 18–19		R WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca	Monterey, California
19	October 1–3	VP Racing Fuels Champhionship Weekend Presented By Cooper Tires	R Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Lexington, Ohio
20	October 1–3		R Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Lexington, Ohio
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Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th+
Points	22	18	15	12	10	8	6	4	2	1

Pos	Team	ALA		STP		IMS		DET		ROA		MOH1		GAT		POR		LAG		MOH2		Points
1	HMD Motorsports^{[n 1]}	1	1	3	1	1	1	2	2	2	1	3	3	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	1	665
1	HMD Motorsports^{[n 1]}	2	2	7	3	2	5	5	3	4	5	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	5	2	665
2	Andretti Autosport^{[n 2]}	3	3	1	2	4	4	1	1	1	2	1	1	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	3	622
2	Andretti Autosport^{[n 2]}	6	5	2	4	6	6	6	5	3	3	2	2	4	4	4	4	6	4	3	4	622
3	Juncos Racing Juncos Hollinger Racing	4	4	5	6	3	2	3	4	5	7	5	5	8	6	5	6	4	5	4	5	324
3	Juncos Racing Juncos Hollinger Racing	7	7	9	9	7	7	7	7	7	9	8	7	9	8	6	7	5	6	6	6	324
4	Carlin	5	6	4	5	5	3	4	6	8	4	6	6	5	5	7	5	7	7	8	7	249
4	Carlin	8	8	8	8	9	9	9	9	9	6	7	9	6	7							249
5	Pserra Racing/AS Promotions	9	9	6	7	8	8	8	8	6	8	9	8	7	9					7	8	118
Pos	Team	ALA		STP		IMS		DET		ROA		MOH1		GAT		POR		LAG		MOH2		Points

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2021 Indy Lights

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Round	Race	Pole position	Fastest lap	Most laps led	Race Winner
Round	Race	Pole position	Fastest lap	Most laps led	Driver	Team
1	Birmingham 1	Linus Lundqvist	Toby Sowery	Linus Lundqvist	Linus Lundqvist	HMD Motorsports
2	Birmingham 2	David Malukas	David Malukas	David Malukas	David Malukas	HMD Motorsports
3	St. Petersburg 1	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Andretti Autosport
4	St. Petersburg 2	David Malukas	Kyle Kirkwood	David Malukas	David Malukas	HMD Motorsports
5	Indianapolis GP 1	Linus Lundqvist	Linus Lundqvist	Linus Lundqvist	Linus Lundqvist	HMD Motorsports
6	Indianapolis GP 2	David Malukas	Kyle Kirkwood	David Malukas	David Malukas	HMD Motorsports
7	Detroit 1	Kyle Kirkwood	Linus Lundqvist	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Andretti Autosport
8	Detroit 2	Linus Lundqvist	David Malukas	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Andretti Autosport
9	Road America 1	Danial Frost	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Andretti Autosport
10	Road America 2	Danial Frost	Robert Megennis	David Malukas	David Malukas	HMD Motorsports
11	Mid-Ohio 1	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Andretti Autosport
12	Mid-Ohio 2	Danial Frost	Danial Frost	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Andretti Autosport
13	Gateway 1	David Malukas	David Malukas	David Malukas	David Malukas	HMD Motorsports
14	Gateway 2	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	David Malukas	HMD Motorsports
15	Portland 1	David Malukas	Kyle Kirkwood	David Malukas	David Malukas	HMD Motorsports
16	Portland 2	David Malukas	Benjamin Pedersen	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Andretti Autosport
17	Laguna Seca 1	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Andretti Autosport
18	Laguna Seca 2	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Andretti Autosport
19	Mid-Ohio 3	Kyle Kirkwood	Danial Frost	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Andretti Autosport
20	Mid-Ohio 4	David Malukas	David Malukas	Linus Lundqvist	Linus Lundqvist	HMD Motorsports