It’s a return to some of the same city streets that hosted Formula 1 from 1982 to ’88 and CART from ’89 to ’91, with some familiar challenges and a few new twists. After the 220mph-plus, momentum-is-everything challenge of Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the NTT Ind圜ar Series is back to stamping on the brakes, arm-wrestling the steering wheel, and mashing the throttle for a full-on street fight at the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix.īut after 16 years on Belle Isle’s parkland roads, it’s all change and all new as the brawl heads west a couple miles to downtown Motown and a 1.645-mile, nine-turn track that wraps around the Detroit skyline-defining GM Renaissance Center and skirts the Detroit River. Where: Streets of downtown Detroit, Mich. Newgarden will start 14th and stalked down pit road in anger.What: Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix / Race 7 of the 2023 NTT Ind圜ar Series The biggest qualifying disappointment was Penske driver Josef Newgarden, who missed out on advancing in qualifying by a tick - under. Marcus Armstrong, a rookie for Chip Ganassi Racing, was the highest qualifier among the newcomers at 13th. McLaughlin of Team Penske went off course in the Fast Six and qualified sixth in a Chevy. Pato O’Ward of McLaren was the highest-qualifying Chevrolet driver in third and followed by Indianapolis 500 winner Marcus Ericsson of Chip Ganassi Racing and then Kirkwood, as Honda drivers took four of the top five spots. “Up until the last mistake, this weekend he’s been doing a great job.” “Been very, very happy with his results and testing,” Andretti said. “Ultimately, we are in the Fast Six with three cars, happy with that.”Īndretti wasn’t all that bothered by Kirkwood’s stumble.

“Disappointed, it was less than ideal,” Kirkwood said.

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