2019 Indy Lights season

2019 Indy Lights
Rescale Indy Lights
Season
Races	10
Start date	March 22
End date	September 28
Awards
Drivers' champion	TBA
Rookie of the Year	TBA
Seasons
Previous season	Next season
n/a	2020

The 2019 Rescale Indy Lights season is the first year of a rebooted support series for the IndyCar Series, and the 30th since the feeder series' inception in 1986.

All teams in the series will use the new VGP i1 chassis built by Voeckler GPE, which will be coupled to a newly designed AER V6 Hybrid engine. Series organisers also signed a two year exclusive tyre supply deal with Hankook. Returning to the sport are Carlin, Belardi Auto Racing, Team Pelfrey and Juncos Racing, along with new teams populating the remainder of the grid.

Teams & Drivers

Team	No.	Driver(s)	Round(s)	Sponsor(s)
Template:USA Team Pelfrey	2	Alessandro Marchesi	1-	Snap-On / Warrior
	3	Template:USA Santino Ferrucci	1-	Dollar General
Template:GBR Carlin	4	TBA	TBA	Pennzoil
	11	Template:USA Jerry de Boer	1-	Rabobank
	22	Marco Bizzarri	1-
Template:USA Belardi Auto Racing	5	Template:GBR TBA	TBA	Castrol
	14	TBA	TBA	Under Armour / PPG / NRG Lite
Template:USA DoubleSeven Competition	7	Template:FRA Benoît Voeckler	1-
Template:USA Juncos Racing	12	Template:USA John Davis	1-	Quaker State / Nationwide
	18	TBA	TBA	NRG
Template:FRA Panthera Compétition	21	TBA	TBA	Waste Management / Fantasy Feud
	93	TBA	TBA	Foot Locker / Pepsi / Old Spice
Carrera Granada	25	Luis Michael Dörrbecker	1-
Peak Motorsport Canada	26	Template:AUS Mitchell Macklin	1-	Virgin Atlantic / Supercheap Auto
	27	Hernán Aguilar	1-
Template:USA Eaglesport	76	TBA	TBA	Cummins
Template:USA KVSH Junior Team	98	TBA	TBA	Progressive / Armor All / Coca-Cola
	99	TBA	TBA	Gillette

Schedule

Given its role as a feeder series to the premier IndyCar Series, nine of the ten rounds in the 2019 championship act as support races to the senior series, including two trips into Canada. The only exception to this is the opening round of the season in Puebla, where Indy Lights will instead act as a support round to the FIA Endurance Challenge.

Rd. Date Race Name Circuit City 1 March 22 NRG Indy Lights Grand Prix of Mexico Autodromo Miguel E. Abed Amozoc de Mota, Puebla 2 April 6 Template:USA Rescale Indy Lights Grand Prix of Long Beach Streets of Long Beach Long Beach, California 3 May 10 Template:USA Indy Lights Grand Prix of Indianapolis Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course Speedway, Indiana 4 May 24 Template:USA Cummins Freedom 100 Indianapolis Motor Speedway Speedway, Indiana 5 June 8 Template:USA Briggs & Stratton Milwaukee 100 Milwaukee Mile West Allis, Wisconsin 6 July 20 Hankook Indy Lights Toronto Exhibition Place Toronto, Ontario 7 July 27 Indy Lights Grand Prix of Montreal Circuit Gilles Villeneuve Montreal, Quebec 8 August 17 Template:USA Indy Lights Grand Prix of New York Watkins Glen International Watkins Glen, New York 9 September 7 Template:USA Indy Lights Pocono 100 by Yuengling Pocono Raceway Long Pond, Pennsylvania 10 September 28 Template:USA NRG Indy Lights Grand Prix of California Laguna Seca Monterey, California

Key Road Course Street Course Oval Course

Standings

Points System

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th	16th	17th	18th	19th	20th
Points	30	25	22	19	17	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1

• The driver who qualified on pole was awarded one additional point.
• An additional point was awarded to the driver who led the most laps in a race.
• The driver who obtained the fastest lap in a race was awarded one additional point.