2017 IndyCar Series season
| 2017 IndyCar season | |
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| Verizon IndyCar Series | |
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| Season | |
| Races | 17 |
| Start date | March 12 |
| End date | September 17 |
| Awards | |
The 2017 Verizon IndyCar Series is the 22nd season of the Verizon IndyCar Series and the 96th official championship season of American open wheel racing. The premier event will be the 101st Indianapolis 500. Simon Pagenaud enters the season as the defending IndyCar champion, while Alexander Rossi enters the season as defending Indianapolis 500 winner. The 2017 season is the last season for the Honda/Chevy aerokits introduced in 2015, as 2018 will see the introduction of a new spec-aerokit.
All events from 2016 return to the schedule. In addition, the series will return to Gateway Motorsports Park for the first time since 2003.
This chart represents announced teams, cars and their respective driver combinations for the 2017 season.
All 16 races from 2016 will return. Gateway Motorsports Park returns to the schedule for the first time since 2003. The only other schedule change is the move of the race at Phoenix from the first weekend in April to the last weekend in April to avoid a conflict with the Final Four being held in nearby Glendale, Arizona. The Long Beach race will be the second race of the season as opposed to being the third race of the season in 2016.
The Grand Prix of Indianapolis will be rebranded as the IndyCar Grand Prix for the 2017 running of the event following an announcement that Angie's List would no longer sponsor the event. The title of the event may change if a new sponsor is found.
A full-course caution came out on lap 26, but occurred while the field was circulating through routine green-flag pit stops. Sébastien Bourdais, who started last due to a qualifying crash, had pitted early, and shuffled up to second place. Bourdais took the lead on lap 37, and manged to hold a mostly comfortable lead for the remainder of the race.
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