Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park (formerly Indianapolis Raceway Park , O'Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis , and Lucas Oil Raceway ) is an auto racing facility in Brownsburg, Indiana , about 10 miles (16 km) northwest of downtown Indianapolis . It includes a 0.686 mi (1.104 km) oval track , a 2.500 mi (4.023 km) road course (which has fallen into disrepair and is no longer used), and a 4,400-foot (1,300 m) drag strip which is among the premier drag racing venues in the world. The complex receives about 500,000 visitors annually.
16-464: Motor race Hoosier Grand Prix [REDACTED] Venue Indianapolis Raceway Park First race 1961 Last race 1994 Previous names Indianapolis 150/200 Indy Grand Prix Most wins (driver) Mario Andretti (3) Al Unser (3) Most wins (team) Dean Racing Enterprises (3) Most wins (manufacturer) Brawner Hawk (3) Lola (3) The Hoosier Grand Prix
32-419: A USAC Stock Car event on the road course. After an insurance investigation of the pit out opening for the road course, which is located along the left lane wall of the drag strip, the insurance carrier demanded the pit out be closed off with a permanent concrete wall. This effectively meant closing the road course for competition purposes, as there is no other area on the current track layout suitable to relocate
48-464: A full inversion, and the winner winning $ 50,000 if they could win both features. The 15-turn road course was used by the Indianapolis area Sports Car Club of America road racing events. The initial Indianapolis Raceway Park road race was an SCCA event held in 1961. In 1965, rookie driver Mario Andretti won his first Indy car race on the road course, in an event that was historic in that it
64-607: A shorter track. Raceway Park traditionally stages an extensive program on the Saturday nights of major races at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway . On Memorial Day weekend, the venue hosts a USAC Silver Crown, Sprint Car and Midget Car event, serving as something of an unofficial preliminary event to the Indianapolis 500 . It was previously held on Saturday Night under the name Night before the 500, and
80-452: A viable pit lane. However, club racing and private testing used a section of track that runs parallel to the backstretch of the oval (Turns 6–8) as a makeshift pit, although enough section of the return road for the drag strip could also be used if realigned. The last SCCA club road race was held in 2007. The road course surface is in disrepair and very bumpy, and would need improvement to be of use again. There are plans to redesign and renovate
96-579: Is currently held on Friday night as the Carb Night Classic . Similarly, the NASCAR Nationwide Series Kroger 200 was given a "Night before the 400 " status; a Truck Series race was added to the weekend in 1995. When Formula One raced at IMS, midget, sprint, and stock car races were held at ORP in the "Night Before F1" meets, including the 2002 and 2003 USGP races that featured a twin 25-lap midget format, with
112-400: Is held for the two nitro divisions (Top Fuel on Saturday and Funny Car on Sunday). The winners in each division win $ 100,000 US, while the race itself has the largest purse of any NHRA sanctioned event at over $ 250,000 US. The drag strip has held the event every year since 1961, when the race was moved from Detroit. Sprint and midget races are held on the oval, along with other events suited to
128-529: The National Hot Rod Association (NHRA), the drag strip was the first to be completed, with the facility's first event held on the strip in the fall of 1960. The facility was called Indianapolis Raceway Park. A year later, a 0.686-mile (1.104 km) paved oval was completed to finish off the track capabilities of the complex. The oval track was used as-is until an overall track renovation was completed in 1988 in order to increase speed on
144-427: The development of a 267-acre (108 ha) farm tract into a recreational sporting complex that would focus on auto racing. The original intention was to create a 15-turn, 2.500 mi (4.023 km) road course, but as an insurance measure against economic problems, the investment group decided to incorporate a quarter-mile drag strip into the long straightaway of the road course design. Constructed with assistance from
160-3415: The race in 1973, and again in 1994. Results [ edit ] Year Overall Winner(s) Entrant Car Distance/Duration Race Title Report USAC Road Racing Championship 1961 [REDACTED] Augie Pabst Harry Woodnorth Scarab Mk II- Chevrolet 200 mi (320 km) Hoosier Grand Prix report 1962 [REDACTED] Jim Hall Chaparral Cars Lotus 18 - Climax 200 mi (320 km) Hoosier Grand Prix report Non-championship 1963 [REDACTED] Dan Gurney Frank Arciero Lotus 18 - Climax 200 mi (320 km) Hoosier Grand Prix report 1964 Not held USAC Championship Car 1965 [REDACTED] Mario Andretti Al Dean Brawner Hawk / Ford 150 mi (240 km) Hoosier Grand Prix report 1966 [REDACTED] Mario Andretti Dean Racing Enterprises Brawner Hawk / Ford 150 mi (240 km) Hoosier Grand Prix report 1967 [REDACTED] Mario Andretti Dean Racing Enterprises Brawner Hawk / Ford 150 mi (240 km) Indianapolis 150 report 1968 Heat 1 [REDACTED] Al Unser Retzloff Racing Team Lola T150 / Ford 100 mi (160 km) Indy 200 report Heat 2 [REDACTED] Al Unser Retzloff Racing Team Lola T150 / Ford 100 mi (160 km) 1969 Heat 1 [REDACTED] Dan Gurney Dan Gurney Eagle / Gurney- Weslake Ford 100 mi (160 km) Indy 200 report Heat 2 [REDACTED] Peter Revson Repco-Brabham Brabham BT25 / Repco 100 mi (160 km) 1970 [REDACTED] Al Unser Vel's Parnelli Jones Ford Lola T150 / Ford 150 mi (240 km) Indy 150 report 1971-1972 Not held IMSA GT Championship 1973 [REDACTED] Peter Gregg Peter Gregg Porsche Carrera 3 hours 3 Hours of Indianapolis report 1974-1993 Not held 1994 [REDACTED] Eliseo Salazar [REDACTED] Giampiero Moretti MOMO Ferrari 333 SP 2 hours Indy Grand Prix report External links [ edit ] Racing Sports Cars: IRP archive Champ Car Stats: IRP archive Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hoosier_Grand_Prix&oldid=1183030357 " Categories : IMSA GT Championship races American open wheel series races Motorsport in Indianapolis Sports car races 1961 establishments in Indiana 1994 disestablishments in Indiana Recurring sporting events established in 1961 Recurring sporting events disestablished in 1994 Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata Indianapolis Raceway Park In 1958, 15 Indianapolis-area businessmen and racing professionals led by Tom Binford , Frank Dickie, Rodger Ward , and Howard Fieber invested $ 5,000 each to fund
176-681: The road course, but track officials say it is a long term goal. In 2012, it was announced that the NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Lucas Oil Raceway would move to Indianapolis Motor Speedway as the Indiana 250 to replace the Kroger 200, and that it would be joined by Rolex Sports Car Series and Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge races under the banner " Super Weekend at the Brickyard ". The Camping World Truck Series event
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#1732780407972192-601: The track announced the track's renaming to Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park. As of May 2024, the fastest lap records at Indianapolis Raceway Park are listed as: Qualifying records Race lap records Source: 1967 USAC Championship Car season The 1967 USAC Championship Car season consisted of 21 races, beginning in Avondale , Arizona , on April 9 and concluding in Riverside, California , on November 26. This season saw three new road courses added to
208-596: The track. The premier feature of Lucas Oil Raceway is a 4,400-foot (1,300 m) long drag strip. The single NHRA event held at the facility is the oldest and most prestigious of the series. The NHRA U.S. Nationals , held every year during the Labor Day weekend, is the only event on the NHRA schedule with final eliminations scheduled on a Monday. An all-star style race, called the Traxxas Nitro Shootout,
224-632: Was a sports car , Formula Libre , and Champ Car race held at Indianapolis Raceway Park between 1961 and 1994. The race began as a round of the USAC Road Racing Championship . After being run for sports cars in its first year, the race switched to Formula Libre for the next two. After not being held in 1964, the race shifted to the USAC National Championship Trail for Champ Cars in 1965, running until 1970. The IMSA GT Championship revived
240-600: Was replaced with a new event at Eldora Speedway . As a result, the ARCA Racing Series became the lone national stock car racing series to sanction a race at the track, running its own 200-lap event. NASCAR announced in September 2021 that the Truck Series would return to Lucas Oil Raceway in 2022 as the first playoff race, marking the return by NASCAR after an eleven year absence. On December 8, 2021,
256-695: Was the first time in modern history that American Indy cars raced on a road circuit. For the next six years, the road course hosted the Hoosier Grand Prix , a round of the USAC National Championship Series , the same series that included the Indianapolis 500 , as well as the USAC Stock Car series, including the Yankee 300 . Notably, in the 1969 movie Winning , Paul Newman 's character, Frank Capua, competes in
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