FRESH START FOR NEWGARDEN: moves to for 2017 and will drive the No. 2 which carried to victory at St. Pete the last two seasons.

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WHAT TO WATCH FOR THIS WEEKEND: • of Team Penske begins defense of his 2016 Verizon IndyCar Series championship at St. Petersburg. Pagenaud captured the title in dominating fashion, winning five times, including the last Verizon IndyCar Series race, the GoPro Grand Prix at . Now he aims to be Team Penske’s first repeat champion since – a driver Pagenaud calls “his Yoda” – captured back-to-back CART championships in 2000 and 2001.

• aims for a rebound season as Racing joins for 2017. Dixon’s four season championships tie him with greats Mario , Sebastien Bourdais and for second on the all-time Indy car list, trailing only the seven titles collected by A.J. Foyt. Dixon is fourth on the all-time Indy car victory list with 40. He has three runner-up finishes at St. Petersburg but has never won at the circuit.

• Drivers may engage their “push to pass” for total of 150 seconds during the race, with a maximum duration of 15 seconds for any one activation. The push-to-pass is not available on the initial start or any restart unless it occurs in the final two laps or three minutes of a timed race. The feature increases the power of the engine by approximately 60 horsepower for 2017.

LED DISPLAY PANELS:

POSITION: RED PUSH-TO-PASS: FLASHES GREEN TIMER: GREEN Primary display, showing the car’s position Display flashes “PP” in green while the Display shows a running clock in the running order. Blinks when the car’s push-to-pass is active. during a pit stop in seconds. position has changed from previous lap. Example: Car with active P2P. Example: 7.9-second pit stop. Example: Car is running in P12.

If you traveled at race across the Sunshine Skyway Bridge spanning Tampa Bay, your right rear Firestone race would rotate nearly 3,000 times during the drive. That’s roughly 18 revolutions per second! WHAT TO WATCH FOR THIS WEEKEND:

LED DISPLAY PANELS: 5 2017 SCHEDULE

MARCH 12, 12:00PM APRIL 9, 4:00PM APRIL 23, 3:00PM STREETS OF ST. PETERSBURG STREETS OF LONG BEACH BARBER PARK

APRIL 29, 9:00PM MAY 13, 3:30PM (ROAD COURSE) MAY 20, 4:00PM (QUAL DAY 1) PHOENIX INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY MOTOR SPEEDWAY INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY

MAY 21, 4:00PM (QUAL DAY 2) MAY 28, 11:00AM (OVAL) JUNE 3, 3:30PM (RACE 1) INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY THE RACEWAY AT BELLE ISLE PARK

JUNE 4, 3:30PM (RACE 2) JUNE 10, 8:00PM JUNE 25, 12:30PM THE RACEWAY AT BELLE ISLE PARK

JULY 9, 5:00PM JULY 16, 3:00PM JULY 30, 3:00PM STREETS OF MID-OHIO SPORTS CAR COURSE

AUGUST 20, 2:00PM AUGUST 26, 9:00PM SEPTEMBER 3, 1:00PM GATEWAY MOTOSPORTS PARK WATKINS GLEN INTERNATIONAL

SEPTEMBER 17, 6:30PM SONOMA RACEWAY *SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. ALL TIMES EASTERN. 5

EVENT SCHEDULE All times local. Schedule subject to change.

7:55 am USF2000 Qualifying 1 8:20 am Pro Mazda Practice 1 9:05 am Practice 1 10:05 am Pirelli World Challenge GT, GTA & GT Cup Qualifying 10:40 am USF2000 Qualifying 2 11:15 am Verizon IndyCar Series Practice 1 11:30 am Pro Mazda Autograph Session (INDYCAR Fan Village) 12:15 pm Indy Lights Autograph Session (INDYCAR Fan Village) 12:15 pm Pirelli World Challenge GTS Race 1 1:30 pm Pro Mazda Qualifying 1 2:15 pm Indy Lights Qualifying 1 3:00 pm Verizon IndyCar Series Practice 2 3:30 pm USF2000 Autograph Session (INDYCAR Fan Village) 4:00 pm Stadium Super Trucks Practice 4:30 pm Verizon IndyCar Series Autograph Session (INDYCAR Fan Village) 6:15 pm 5K Run North Straub Park FRIDAY MARCH 10

7:30 am Pro Mazda Qualifying 2 7:55 am Indy Lights Qualifying 2 8:40 am USF2000 Race 1 9:35 am Pirelli World Challenge GT, GTA, GT Cup Race 1 10:50 am Verizon IndyCar Series Practice 3 11:50 am Pro Mazda Race 1 12:55 pm Pirelli World Challenge GTS Race 2 2:00 pm USF2000 Race 2 2:55 pm Verizon IndyCar Series Qualifying & Fast 6 4:25 pm Stadium Super Trucks Race 1

SATURDAY MARCH 11 5:10 pm Indy Lights Race 1

9:00 am Verizon IndyCar Series Warm-Up 9:45 am Indy Lights Race 2 11:00 am Stadium Super Trucks Race 2 11:35 pm Verizon IndyCar Series Pre-Race 12:30 pm Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg 3:15 pm Pirelli World Challenge GT, GTA & GT Cup Race 2 4:30 pm Pro Mazda Race 2 SUNDAY MARCH 12 * DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME BEGINS MARCH 12, 2:00AM CLOCKS MOVE FORWARD 1 HOUR

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