2021 Indy Lights

The 2021 Indy Lights season was the 35th season of the Indy Lights open wheel motor racing series and the 19th sanctioned by IndyCar, acting as the primary support series for the IndyCar Series. After going into a hiatus in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the season started on April 17 at Barber Motorsports Park and was held over 20 races spanning ten meetings.[1]

2021 Indy Lights season
Indy Lights
Season
Races20
Start dateApril 17
End dateOctober 3
Awards
Drivers' championUnited States Kyle Kirkwood
Teams' championHMD Motorsports
Rookie of the YearUnited States Kyle Kirkwood

Series news
  • On October 7, 2020, Indy Lights announced a series of changes for the 2021 season. The champion's scholarship increased to $1,250,000. The top-three finishers in the championship each earned an IndyCar Series test and all cars were now equipped with a titanium halo to increase driver safety.[2]

Team and driver chart

The following drivers and teams competed in the series.

Team No. Drivers Round(s)
Andretti Autosport 27 United States Robert Megennis[3] All
28 United States Kyle Kirkwood[4] All
68 Singapore Danial Frost[5] All
Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport 17 Canada Devlin DeFrancesco[6] All
Carlin[7][8] 5 Australia Alex Peroni[7][9] 1–14
7 United States Christian Bogle[10] All
Global Racing Group
with HMD Motorsports[11][12][13]		 24 United States Benjamin Pedersen[14] All
26 Sweden Linus Lundqvist[15] All
HMD Motorsports[16] 59 Russia Nikita Lastochkin[17] 1–12
Mexico Manuel Sulaimán[18] 15–20
79 United States David Malukas[19] All
Juncos Racing[20]
Juncos Hollinger Racing1[21]		 2 United States Sting Ray Robb[22] All
51 United Kingdom Toby Sowery[23] 1–14
Sweden Rasmus Lindh[24] 15–20
Pserra Racing/AS Promotions 11 Canada Antonio Serravalle[25] 1–14, 19–20
1Juncos Racing were rebranded as Juncos Hollinger Racing in August 2021

Schedule

The provisional 2021 race calendar was announced on October 21, 2020, with the final round to be announced at a later date.[26] This last round was later confirmed to be at Barber Motorsports park, after the IndyCar series moved its season opener there.[27] The calendar was the first since 2002 to not feature the Freedom 100 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The Toronto round originally scheduled was replaced by a standalone second weekend at Mid-Ohio in October.

Rd. Date Race name Track Location
1 April 17–18 Indy Lights Grand Prix of Barber Motorsports Park
Presented by Cooper Tires		  R  Barber Motorsports Park Birmingham, Alabama
2
3 April 24–25 Indy Lights Grand Prix of St. Petersburg
Presented by Foundation Building Materials		  R  Streets of St. Petersburg St. Petersburg, Florida
4 Indy Lights Grand Prix of St. Petersburg
Presented by Andersen Interior Contracting
5 May 14–15 Indy Lights Grand Prix of Indianapolis
Presented by Cooper Tires		  R  Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course Speedway, Indiana
6
7 June 12–13 Indy Lights Grand Prix of Detroit
Presented by Cooper Tires		  R  The Raceway at Belle Isle Park Detroit, Michigan
8
9 June 19–20 Cooper Tires Grand Prix of Road America
Powered by AER		  R  Road America Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin
10
11 July 3–4 Cooper Tires Indy Lights Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio  R  Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Lexington, Ohio
12
13 August 20–21 Cooper Tires Indy Lights Oval Challenge of St. Louis  O  Gateway Motorsports Park Madison, Illinois
14
15 September 11–12 Cooper Tires Indy Lights Grand Prix of Portland  R  Portland International Raceway Portland, Oregon
16
17 September 18–19 Indy Lights Grand Prix of Monterey
Presented by Cooper Tires		  R  WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca Monterey, California
18
19 October 1–3 VP Racing Fuels Champhionship Weekend
Presented By Cooper Tires		  R  Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Lexington, Ohio
20
References: [28][29]

Race results
Round Race Pole position Fastest lap Most laps led Race Winner
Driver Team
1 Birmingham 1 Sweden Linus Lundqvist United Kingdom Toby Sowery Sweden Linus Lundqvist Sweden Linus Lundqvist HMD Motorsports
2 Birmingham 2 United States David Malukas United States David Malukas United States David Malukas United States David Malukas HMD Motorsports
3 St. Petersburg 1 United States Kyle Kirkwood United States Kyle Kirkwood United States Kyle Kirkwood United States Kyle Kirkwood Andretti Autosport
4 St. Petersburg 2 United States David Malukas United States Kyle Kirkwood United States David Malukas United States David Malukas HMD Motorsports
5 Indianapolis GP 1 Sweden Linus Lundqvist Sweden Linus Lundqvist Sweden Linus Lundqvist Sweden Linus Lundqvist HMD Motorsports
6 Indianapolis GP 2 United States David Malukas United States Kyle Kirkwood United States David Malukas United States David Malukas HMD Motorsports
7 Detroit 1 United States Kyle Kirkwood Sweden Linus Lundqvist United States Kyle Kirkwood United States Kyle Kirkwood Andretti Autosport
8 Detroit 2 Sweden Linus Lundqvist United States David Malukas United States Kyle Kirkwood United States Kyle Kirkwood Andretti Autosport
9 Road America 1 Singapore Danial Frost United States Kyle Kirkwood United States Kyle Kirkwood United States Kyle Kirkwood Andretti Autosport
10 Road America 2 Singapore Danial Frost United States Robert Megennis United States David Malukas United States David Malukas HMD Motorsports
11 Mid-Ohio 1 United States Kyle Kirkwood United States Kyle Kirkwood United States Kyle Kirkwood United States Kyle Kirkwood Andretti Autosport
12 Mid-Ohio 2 Singapore Danial Frost Singapore Danial Frost United States Kyle Kirkwood United States Kyle Kirkwood Andretti Autosport
13 Gateway 1 United States David Malukas United States David Malukas United States David Malukas United States David Malukas HMD Motorsports
14 Gateway 2 United States Kyle Kirkwood United States Kyle Kirkwood United States Kyle Kirkwood United States David Malukas HMD Motorsports
15 Portland 1 United States David Malukas United States Kyle Kirkwood United States David Malukas United States David Malukas HMD Motorsports
16 Portland 2 United States David Malukas United States Benjamin Pedersen United States Kyle Kirkwood United States Kyle Kirkwood Andretti Autosport
17 Laguna Seca 1 United States Kyle Kirkwood United States Kyle Kirkwood United States Kyle Kirkwood United States Kyle Kirkwood Andretti Autosport
18 Laguna Seca 2 United States Kyle Kirkwood United States Kyle Kirkwood United States Kyle Kirkwood United States Kyle Kirkwood Andretti Autosport
19 Mid-Ohio 3 United States Kyle Kirkwood Singapore Danial Frost United States Kyle Kirkwood United States Kyle Kirkwood Andretti Autosport
20 Mid-Ohio 4 United States David Malukas United States David Malukas Sweden Linus Lundqvist Sweden Linus Lundqvist HMD Motorsports

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 (R) 30 25 22 19 17 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Points (O) 45 38 33 29 26 23 21 20 18 17 15 14 12 11 9 8 6 5 4 2
  • 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.
Pos Driver ALA STP IMS DET ROA MOH1 GAT POR LAG MOH2 Points
1 United States Kyle Kirkwood  RY  9 5 1* 2 4 4 1* 1* 1* 12 1* 1* 2 2* 2 1* 1* 1* 1* 5 537
2 United States David Malukas 13 1* 3 1* 2 1* 5 3 7 1* 3 3 1* 1 1* 2 4 2 2 2 524
3 Sweden Linus Lundqvist  R  1* 2 9 3 1* 5 2 2 4 5 4 4 9 4 3 3 2 3 6 1* 449
4 United States Benjamin Pedersen  R  2 7 10 6 10 9 11 6 2 7 7 8 3 3 4 4 3 5 9 3 356
5 Singapore Danial Frost  R  7 12 2 4 6 8 6 12 11 3 2 2 6 10 8 6 8 4 4 6 338
6 Canada Devlin DeFrancesco  R  3 3 12 5 7 6 7 5 10 6 5 5 4 5 11 7 9 8 8 4 326
7 United States Robert Megennis 6 13 4 7 8 7 8 8 3 2 8 7 7 7 5 5 10 6 3 9 319
8 United States Sting Ray Robb  R  8 8 6 13 9 10 10 10 8 9 11 10 12 11 9 11 6 9 5 7 249
9 United Kingdom Toby Sowery 4 4 13 9 3 2 3 4 5 13 6 6 11 8 236
10 Australia Alex Peroni  R  5 6 5 8 5 3 4 13 13 4 9 9 5 6 228
11 United States Christian Bogle  R  10 10 11 12 12 12 13 7 9 8 10 13 8 9 10 8 11 11 12 10 227
12 Canada Antonio Serravalle  R  12 11 7 10 11 11 12 11 6 10 13 12 10 12 11 12 175
13 Russia Nikita Lastochkin  R  11 9 8 11 13 13 9 9 12 11 12 11 123
14 Sweden Rasmus Lindh  R  7 9 5 7 10 8 81
15 Mexico Manuel Sulaimán  R  6 10 7 10 7 11 75
Pos Driver ALA STP IMS DET ROA MOH1 GAT POR LAG MOH2 Points
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
* Led most race laps
(1 point)
1 Qualifying cancelled
no bonus point awarded
 R  Rookie
 RY  Rookie of the Year
  • Ties in points broken by number of wins, or best finishes.

Teams' championship
Scoring system
Position  1st   2nd   3rd   4th   5th   6th   7th   8th   9th   10th+ 
Points 22 18 15 12 10 8 6 4 2 1
  • Single car teams received 3 bonus points as an equivalency to multi-car teams
  • Only the best two results counted for teams fielding more than two entries
Pos Team ALA STP IMS DET ROA MOH1 GAT POR LAG MOH2 Points
1 HMD Motorsports[n 1] 1 1 3 1 1 1 2 2 2 1 3 3 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 1 665
2 2 7 3 2 5 5 3 4 5 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 5 2
2 Andretti Autosport[n 2] 3 3 1 2 4 4 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 3 622
6 5 2 4 6 6 6 5 3 3 2 2 4 4 4 4 6 4 3 4
3 Juncos Racing
Juncos Hollinger Racing		 4 4 5 6 3 2 3 4 5 7 5 5 8 6 5 6 4 5 4 5 324
7 7 9 9 7 7 7 7 7 9 8 7 9 8 6 7 5 6 6 6
4 Carlin 5 6 4 5 5 3 4 6 8 4 6 6 5 5 7 5 7 7 8 7 249
8 8 8 8 9 9 9 9 9 6 7 9 6 7
5 Pserra Racing/AS Promotions 9 9 6 7 8 8 8 8 6 8 9 8 7 9 7 8 118
Pos Team ALA STP IMS DET ROA MOH1 GAT POR LAG MOH2 Points

Notes
  1. Entry list has Global Racing Group as a separate team of two cars, while official points list HMD and GRG as the same team.
  2. Entry list has Andretti / Andretti Steinbrenner as two teams with one and three cars, while official teams standings list it as a single team.

See also

References
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