2016 Indy Lights

2016 Indy Lights season
Indy Lights
Season
Races	17
Start date	March 12
End date	September 11
Awards
Drivers' champion
Teams' champion
Rookie of the Year
Chronology
Previous season	Next season
2015	2017

The 2016 Indy Lights season is a season of open wheel motor racing. It is the 31st season of the Indy Lights series and the 15th sanctioned by IndyCar, acting as the primary support series for the IndyCar Series.

Team and driver chart

• All drivers compete in Cooper Tire–shod Dallara IL-15 chassis with Mazda AER engine.

Team	No.	Drivers	Rounds
Andretti Autosport	27	Dean Stoneman[1]	All
	28	Dalton Kellett[2]	All
	51	Shelby Blackstock[3]	All
Belardi Auto Racing	5	Zach Veach[4]	All
	14	Felix Rosenqvist[5]	All
Carlin[6]	4	Félix Serrallés[7]	All
	11	Ed Jones[8]	All
	22	Neil Alberico[9]	All
Juncos Racing	13	Zachary Claman DeMelo[10]	All
	18	Kyle Kaiser[11]	All
McCormack Racing	34	Davey Hamilton Jr.[12]	TBA
Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	7	RC Enerson[13]	All
	17	André Negrão[14]	All
	55	Santiago Urrutia[15]	All
	77	Scott Anderson[14]	1–2, 4–5
		Heamin Choi	3
Team Pelfrey[16]	2	Juan Piedrahita[17]	All
	3	Scott Hargrove[18]	1–5

• Team Pelfrey purchased the assets of 8Star Motorsports

Schedule

The 2016 schedule was released on October 27, 2015.^[19] Phoenix and Road America returned to the calendar. Long Beach was removed from the schedule, and with the IndyCar Series not returning to the Milwaukee Mile, Indy Lights will not return either.

The Grand Prix of Boston was announced in late May 2015. The race was scheduled to be run on Labor Day Weekend on September 4, 2016. The proposed street circuit was based in the Boston Seaport District. On April 29, 2016, Boston newspapers reported that the race weekend, which was to include an Indy Lights support race, had been canceled.^[20]

The season will expand to 17 races, one more than the previous season. All races on road courses and street circuits will be double headers, while the oval tracks will have only one race each.

All races will be run in support of IndyCar races except the final weekend at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, which will be a Mazda Road to Indy headliner weekend.

Rd.	Date	Race name	Track	Location
1	March 12	Indy Lights Grand Prix of St. Petersburg Presented by Lucas School of Racing	Streets of St. Petersburg	St. Petersburg, Florida
2	March 13
3	April 2	Indy Lights Grand Prix of Phoenix	Phoenix International Raceway	Phoenix, Arizona
4	April 23	Legacy Indy Lights 100	Barber Motorsports Park	Birmingham, Alabama
5	April 24
6	May 13	Grand Prix of Indianapolis	Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course	Speedway, Indiana
7	May 14
8	May 27	Freedom 100	Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval	Speedway, Indiana
9	June 25	Grand Prix of Road America	Road America	Elkhart Lake, WI
10	June 26
11	July 10	Iowa Corn Indy 100	Iowa Speedway	Newton, Iowa
12	July 16	Grand Prix of Toronto	Exhibition Place	Toronto
13	July 17
14	July 30	Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Lexington, Ohio
15	July 31
16	September 10	Grand Prix of Monterey	Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca	Monterey, California
17	September 11

  Oval/Speedway

  Road Course

  Temporary Street Circuit

Race results

Round	Race	Pole position	Fastest lap	Most laps led	Race Winner
					Driver	Team
1	St. Petersburg 1	Kyle Kaiser	Zach Veach	Zach Veach	Félix Serrallés	Carlin
2	St. Petersburg 2	Felix Rosenqvist	Felix Rosenqvist	Felix Rosenqvist	Felix Rosenqvist	Belardi Auto Racing
3	Phoenix	Kyle Kaiser	Kyle Kaiser	Kyle Kaiser	Kyle Kaiser	Juncos Racing
4	Birmingham 1	Ed Jones	Santiago Urrutia	Ed Jones	Ed Jones	Carlin
5	Birmingham 2	Ed Jones	Santiago Urrutia	Santiago Urrutia	Santiago Urrutia	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports
6	Indianapolis GP 1
7	Indianapolis GP 2
8	Indianapolis
9	Road America 1
10	Road America 2
11	Iowa
12	Toronto 1
13	Toronto 2
14	Mid-Ohio 1
15	Mid-Ohio 2
16	Laguna Seca 1
17	Laguna Seca 2

Championship standings

Drivers' championship

Scoring 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.

Pos Driver STP PHX ALA IND INDY RDA IOW TOR MOH LAG Pts 1 Ed Jones 10 7 2 1* 2 108 2 Kyle Kaiser 3 2 1* 15 6 102 3 Félix Serrallés 1 4 7 2 15 94 4 Santiago Urrutia 4 13 4 11 1* 89 5 RC Enerson 5 12 3 6 4 82 6 Zach Veach 16* 3 8 3 10 75 7 Felix Rosenqvist 7 1* 15 14 8 74 8 Dean Stoneman 8 6 5 16 3 72 9 André Negrão 6 5 6 8 11 70 10 Shelby Blackstock 14 11 14 4 5 60 11 Scott Hargrove 2 14 13 13 12 57 12 Zachary Claman DeMelo 11 16 11 5 7 56 13 Juan Piedrahita 9 8 12 7 16 53 14 Dalton Kellett 15 10 10 9 9 52 15 Neil Alberico 12 15 9 12 14 43 16 Scott Anderson 13 9 10 13 39 17 Heamin Choi 16 5 Pos Driver STP PHX ALA IND INDY RDA IOW TOR MOH LAG Pts

Color Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green 4th & 5th place Light Blue 6th–10th place Dark Blue Finished (Outside Top 10) Purple Did not finish Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Brown Withdrawn (Wth) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Blank Did not participate (DNP) Not competing In-line notation Bold Pole position (1 point) Italics Ran fastest race lap (1 point) * Led most race laps (1 point) ^1 Qualifying cancelled no bonus point awarded Rookie

• Ties in points broken by number of wins, or best finishes.

See also

• 2016 IndyCar Series season
• 2016 Pro Mazda Championship season
• 2016 U.S. F2000 National Championship

References

1. Malsher, David. Andretti signs Stoneman for Indy Lights, Motorsport.com, February 24, 2016, Retrieved 2016-02-24
2. Khorounzhiy, Valentin (September 22, 2015). "Andretti promotes Kellett to Indy Lights". Motorsport.com. Retrieved November 3, 2015.
3. Malsher, David. Blackstock staying at Andretti Autosport, leads opening Lights test, Motorsport.com, November 21, 2015, Retrieved 2015-11-25
4. Khorounzhiy, Valentin. Veach returns to Indy Lights with Belardi, Motorsport.com, November 25, 2015, Retrieved 2015-11-25
5. "Belardi Auto Racing confirms Felix Rosenqvist for Indy Lights". Indy Lights. February 22, 2016. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
6. Roberts, James (December 1, 2014). "Carlin aims for IndyCar after launching 2015 Indy Lights programme". Autosport (Haymarket Publications). Retrieved December 1, 2014.
7. Allen, Peter (January 7, 2016). "Felix Serralles teams up with Carlin for second Indy Lights year". Paddock Scout. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
8. Allen, Peter (October 19, 2015). "Ed Jones commits to a second season of Indy Lights with Carlin". Paddock Scout. Retrieved November 3, 2015.
9. "Carlin sign Alberico for 2016 Indy Lights Series". Carlin. January 25, 2016. Retrieved January 25, 2016.
10. "Canadian Zachary Claman DeMelo joins Juncos Racing for 2016 Indy Lights campaign". Juncos Racing. December 15, 2015. Retrieved December 15, 2015.
11. Allen, Peter (October 29, 2015). "Kyle Kaiser sticks with Juncos for 2016 Indy Lights season". Paddock Scout. Retrieved November 3, 2015.
12. Malsher, David (February 5, 2015). "Davey Hamilton Jr. set for Indy Lights ride with McCormack". Motorsport.com. Retrieved February 6, 2015.
13. "RC Enerson to compete with SPM in 2016". SPM IndyCar (Schmidt Peterson Motorsports). October 30, 2015. Retrieved November 6, 2015.
14. "Indy Lights Grand Prix of St. Petersburg Presented by Lucas School of Racing Entry List" (PDF). Indy Lights (Andersen Promotions). March 3, 2016. Retrieved March 9, 2016.
15. "Santiago Urrutia a la IndyLights" [Santiago Urrutia goes up to IndyLights]. Velocidad Total (in Spanish) (Velocidad Total). January 27, 2016. Retrieved January 27, 2016.
16. "Team Pelfrey expands to Indy Lights presented by Cooper Tires". Indy Lights (Andersen Promotions). October 26, 2015. Retrieved November 6, 2015.
17. "Piedrahita signs with Team Pelfrey for 2016 IndyLights season". Team Pelfrey Indy Lights (Team Pelfrey). February 18, 2016. Retrieved February 18, 2016.
18. http://motorsports.nbcsports.com/2016/03/24/hargrove-pelfrey-plan-phoenix-barber-in-working-towards-full-season/
19. "2016 Mazda Road to Indy schedules announced". IndyLights. October 27, 2015. Retrieved November 3, 2015.
20. Golen, Jimmy (April 29, 2016). "Scheduled IndyCar race on streets of Boston cancelled". Associated Press (Boston: AP Sports). Associated Press. Retrieved April 29, 2016.

External links

• Indy Lights Series website