2020 Road America GP IndyCar Race 1 results

The race was the first to be run with full access opened for fans since the Covid-19 pandemic halted racing in March.

Penske’s Josef Newgarden led the 55-lap race from the pole, with a wild first lap ending with the Andretti Autosport cars of Alexander Rossi and Marco Andretti going off and both collecting advertising signs stuck to their front wings.

Newgarden was in control of the race until Lap 28 when his car stalled and took an age to get restarted, falling to 10th. Fellow Penske driver Will Power touched wheels with Santino Ferrucci at the first corner, and despite dropping well down the order he rebounded by pitting early to lead by Lap 31.

Power pulled a hugely aggressive pass on Ganassi’s Scott Dixon to hit the front, with Ferrucci running third ahead of Ryan Hunter-Reay and Jack Harvey. But Harvey crashed out of fifth at Turn 2 on Lap 38, when his front brakes failed and sent him into the gravel trap.

Dixon almost hit Power entering pitroad and then beat him, out as Power was left up on his jacks for too long, while Ferrucci tumbled four spots after clashing with Dalton Kellett as he exited his box.

Dixon led the restart with 14 laps to go but the race went yellow again when Conor Daly hit the wall after clashing with Pato O’Ward. Another restart saw Alex Palou make a spectacular pass on Hunter-Reay for third, but a third yellow was required again for Kellett in the gravel, and race control swapped their positions back. The final restart was with eight laps to go, Palou again passing Hunter-Reay at Turn 1 for third.

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Dixon beat Power by 2.5s, with Palou, Hunter-Reay and Colton Herta rounding out the top five. Rahal was right in contention with the leaders early on but suffered a slow early pitstop when his fuel hose failed to connect properly. He battled back to finish seventh, behind Ferrucci.

Newgarden was forced to pit for more tires after locking up at Turn 1 after the first of the restarts and finished down in 15th.

Road America GP IndyCar Race 1 results

Cla	Driver	Team	Laps	Time	Gap	Mph
1	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing	55	1:54'09.869		116.027
2	Will Power	Team Penske	55	1:54'12.408	2.538	115.984
3	Alex Palou	Dale Coyne Racing with Team Goh	55	1:54'13.062	3.192	115.973
4	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	55	1:54'13.854	3.984	115.960
5	Colton Herta	Andretti Harding Steinbrenner Autosport	55	1:54'17.119	7.249	115.905
6	Santino Ferrucci	Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser Sullivan	55	1:54'18.070	8.200	115.889
7	Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	55	1:54'21.225	11.355	115.835
8	Patricio O'Ward	Arrow McLaren SP	55	1:54'24.654	14.784	115.777
9	Takuma Sato	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	55	1:54'24.874	15.004	115.774
10	Marcus Ericsson	Chip Ganassi Racing	55	1:54'25.635	15.766	115.761
11	Charlie Kimball	A.J. Foyt Enterprises	55	1:54'26.039	16.170	115.754
12	Simon Pagenaud	Team Penske	55	1:54'27.493	17.623	115.730
13	Rinus van Kalmthout	Ed Carpenter Racing	55	1:54'28.984	19.114	115.704
14	Josef Newgarden	Team Penske	55	1:54'29.053	19.184	115.703
15	Oliver Askew	Arrow McLaren SP	55	1:54'30.847	20.977	115.673
16	Zach Veach	Andretti Autosport	55	1:54'32.519	22.649	115.645
17	Max Chilton	Carlin	55	1:54'47.360	37.490	115.396
18	Felix Rosenqvist	Chip Ganassi Racing	54	1:54'32.869	1 Lap	113.537
19	Alexander Rossi	Andretti Autosport	54	1:54'33.402	1 Lap	113.528
20	Dalton Kellett	A.J. Foyt Enterprises	54	1:54'38.973	1 Lap	113.436
21	Conor Daly	Ed Carpenter Racing	41	1:21'51.308	14 Laps	120.633
22	Marco Andretti	Andretti Herta Autosport with Marco & Curb-Agajani	39	1:15'01.958	16 Laps	125.182
23	Jack Harvey	Meyer Shank Racing	37	1:09'25.122	18 Laps	128.367
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Road America GP IndyCar Race 1 fastest laps

Cla	Driver	Team	Laps	Time	Gap	Mph
1	Marco Andretti	Andretti Herta Autosport with Marco & Curb-Agajani	34	1'47.591		134.308
2	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing	51	1'48.413	0.821	133.290
3	Alex Palou	Dale Coyne Racing with Team Goh	50	1'48.532	0.940	133.143
4	Felix Rosenqvist	Chip Ganassi Racing	3	1'48.618	1.027	133.038
5	Will Power	Team Penske	50	1'48.635	1.044	133.017
6	Josef Newgarden	Team Penske	5	1'48.658	1.066	132.990
7	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	50	1'48.693	1.101	132.947
8	Marcus Ericsson	Chip Ganassi Racing	51	1'48.816	1.224	132.796
9	Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	8	1'48.913	1.321	132.678
10	Colton Herta	Andretti Harding Steinbrenner Autosport	50	1'48.975	1.383	132.602
11	Alexander Rossi	Andretti Autosport	4	1'48.986	1.394	132.589
12	Patricio O'Ward	Arrow McLaren SP	51	1'49.010	1.418	132.560
13	Santino Ferrucci	Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser Sullivan	51	1'49.098	1.506	132.453
14	Simon Pagenaud	Team Penske	15	1'49.134	1.543	132.409
15	Oliver Askew	Arrow McLaren SP	53	1'49.186	1.594	132.347
16	Takuma Sato	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	52	1'49.221	1.629	132.304
17	Jack Harvey	Meyer Shank Racing	5	1'49.318	1.726	132.187
18	Charlie Kimball	A.J. Foyt Enterprises	51	1'49.347	1.755	132.152
19	Zach Veach	Andretti Autosport	35	1'49.452	1.860	132.025
20	Rinus van Kalmthout	Ed Carpenter Racing	29	1'49.461	1.869	132.013
21	Conor Daly	Ed Carpenter Racing	3	1'49.790	2.198	131.619
22	Max Chilton	Carlin	32	1'49.867	2.275	131.526
23	Dalton Kellett	A.J. Foyt Enterprises	4	1'50.548	2.956	130.716
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