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 Infiniti V6 Hybrid engine, assembled by AER. 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 / Barilla
	3	Template:USA Santino Ferrucci	1-	Dollar General / Eastern Account System
Template:GBR Carlin [?]	4	Template:USA Oliver Askew	1-	Pennzoil
	11	Template:USA Jerry de Boer	1-2, 4-	Rabobank
		Marjolein Postma	3
	22	Marco Bizzarri	1-	Lavezzi / TI Sparkle
Template:USA Belardi Auto Racing [?]	5	Template:GBR Sennan Fielding	1-	Castrol
	14	Ayla Ågren	1-	Under Armour / PPG / NRG Lite
Template:AUT Union Saver Developments [?]	7	Jorge del Río	1-	GoDaddy / Alan Shoe Trader
Template:USA Dream Racing [?]	9	Template:AUS Anthony Martin	TBA
	74	Alfonso Celis Jr.	1-5	Bonovo
		Nil Montserrat	6	Tierra de Sabor / Asomate a Valladolid
		Pietro Fittipaldi	7-10	Embratel
Template:USA Juncos Racing [?]	12	Template:USA John Davis	1-	Quaker State / Nationwide
	18	Facu Regalia	1-	NRG
Template:FRA Panthera Compétition [?]	21	Francesco Pepitto	1-4, 7-8	Fantasy Feud
		Template:USA Shawn DiBenedetto	10	Waste Management
	93	John Murdoch	1-	Foot Locker / Pepsi / Old Spice
Carrera Granada [?]	25	Luis Michael Dörrbecker	1-	INTERprotección, Telcel
Peak Motorsport Canada [?]	26	Template:AUS Mitchell Macklin	1-	Virgin Atlantic / Supercheap Auto
	27	Hernán Aguilar	1-	Tigo
Template:USA DoubleSeven Competition [?]	34	Antonio Giovinazzi	1-	Andrea Moda
	43	Template:FRA Benoît Voeckler	1-2, 4-	Société Bic, DSCITY
		Template:FRA Adélaïde Voeckler	3
Template:USA Eaglesport [?]	76	Template:USA Ed Howitzer	1-	Cummins
	77	Rio Haryanto	1-	Pertamina

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 Puebla 100 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.

Drivers' Championship

Pos. Driver MEX Template:USA LBH Template:USA IGP Template:USA INDY Template:USA MIL TOR MON Template:USA WGL Template:USA POC Template:USA LAG Pts 1 Template:USA Oliver Askew 1* 1 3 84 2 Template:USA John Davis 12 5 1* 58 3 Antonio Giovinazzi 4 11* 2 57 4 Template:USA Ed Howitzer 9 2 7 51 5 Template:AUS Mitchell Macklin 2 13 5 50 6 Template:GBR Sennan Fielding 5 4 13 44 7 Jorge del Río 3 16 7 42 8 Marco Bizzarri 6 14 4 42 9 Template:USA Santino Ferrucci 8 3 16 40 10 Rio Haryanto 10 8 8 37 11 Facu Regalia 20 7 9 28 12 Ayla Ågren 16 6 14 27 13 Luis Michael Dörrbecker 7 10 20 26 14 Francesco Pepitto 13 9 18 23 15 Alessandro Marchesi 14 17 10 22 16 Alfonso Celis Jr. 11 15 15 22 17 Hernán Aguilar 18 12 12 21 18 John Murdoch 17 18 17 11 19 Marjolein Postma 11 10 20 Template:USA Jerry de Boer 15 DSQ EX 6 21 Template:FRA Benoît Voeckler 19 DSQ EX 2 21 Template:FRA Adélaïde Voeckler 19 2

Key Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green 4th-5th place finish Light Blue 6th-10th place finish Blue 11th place finish or below Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Did not finish Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) Pale blue Withdrawn (WD) Blank Did Not Enter (No text) Excluded (EX) Did not Start (DNS) Did not Arrive (DNA) Event cancelled (C) Injured (INJ) Bold denotes pole position Italics denote fastest lap * denotes most laps led † Classification despite retirement ‡ Race not run to scheduled distance