Indy Light season
The2016 Indy Lights season was a season ofopen wheel motor racing . It was the 31st season of theIndy Lights series and the 15th sanctioned byIndyCar , acting as the primary support series for theIndyCar Series .
Dubai born British sophomore driverEd Jones won the championship by a narrow two point margin over rookie UruguayanSantiago Urrutia . Jones won two races compared to Urrutia's four wins but Jones more consistently finished on the podium. AmericanKyle Kaiser won twice and made few mistakes and finished third in points. Kaiser finished just ahead of AmericanZach Veach whose season began poorly but won three of the last ten races.Dean Stoneman andFélix Serrallés also captured two wins, but were much less consistent and finished fifth and sixth in the championship respectively. SwedeFelix Rosenqvist won three races but missed much of the season due to his role as aMercedes factory driver in Europe.
Jones'Carlin team won the teams' championship and in the final race of the season, Jones' Carlin teammate Serrallés ceded fourth place to Jones on the final lap, allowing him to win the championship.
Team and driver chart [ edit ] Team Pelfrey purchased the assets of 8Star Motorsports The 2016 schedule was released on October 27, 2015.[ 20]
TheGrand 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 theBoston 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.[ 21] Watkins Glen International , on the same weekend.[ 22]
The season will expand to 18 races, two more than the previous season. All races on road courses and street circuits will be double headers with the exception of Watkins Glen, which, like the oval tracks, will have only one race.
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 TV 1 March 12 Indy Lights Grand Prix of St. Petersburg Presented by Lucas School of Racing Streets of St. Petersburg St. Petersburg, Florida NBCSN 2 March 13 3 April 2 Indy Lights Grand Prix of Phoenix Phoenix International Raceway Phoenix, Arizona NBCSN 4 April 23 Legacy Indy Lights 100 Barber Motorsports Park Birmingham, Alabama NBCSN 5 April 24 6 May 13 Mazda Indy Lights Grand Prix of Indianapolis Indianapolis Motor Speedway road courseSpeedway, Indiana NBCSN 7 May 14 8 May 27 Mazda Freedom 100 Indianapolis Motor Speedway ovalSpeedway, Indiana NBCSN 9 June 25 Mazda Indy Lights Grand Prix of Road America Road America Elkhart Lake, WI NBCSN 10 June 26 11 July 10 Indy Lights Iowa Challenge Iowa Speedway Newton, Iowa NBCSN 12 July 16 Cooper Tires Grand Prix of Toronto Exhibition Place Toronto NBCSN 13 July 17 14 July 30 Cooper Tires Indy Lights Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Lexington, Ohio NBCSN 15 July 31 16 September 3 Mazda Indy Lights Grand Prix of Watkins Glen Watkins Glen International Watkins Glen, New York NBCSN 17 September 10 Mazda Indy Lights Grand Prix of Monterey Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca Monterey, California NBCSN 18 September 11
Oval/Speedway
Road Course
Temporary Street Circuit
Championship standings [ edit ] [ edit ] 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. Color Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green 4th & 5th place Light Blue 6th–10th place Dark Blue Finished Purple Did not finish Red Did not qualify Brown Withdrawn Black Disqualified White Did not start Blank Did not Not competing
In-line notation Bold Pole position Italics Ran fastest race lap * Led most race laps 1 Qualifying cancelled Rookie
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USAC Mini-Indy SeriesCART American Racing SeriesCART Firestone/Dayton Indy LightsIRL Infiniti/Indy Pro SeriesFirestone Indy Lights Series Indy Lights Series presented by Cooper Tire Firestone Indy NXT Series
Ed Jones
Carlin
Santiago Urrutia
Dalton Kellett[2]
Shelby Blackstock[3]
Felix Rosenqvist[5]
Félix Serrallés[7]
André Negrão[13]
Heamin Choi
Juan Piedrahita[16]