Last year's Firestone Indy Lights Grand Prix of Baltimore was not without its fair share of drama. After seemingly qualifying on pole, Gustavo Yacaman's fastest lap was disqualified due to a local yellow on the track. Relegated to third, Yacaman was the victor at the end of the race after a wild finish.

Conor Daly led the first 22 laps of the race before teammate Esteban Guerrieri passed him for the lead. Looking to be well on his way to a win with just seven laps to go, Guerrieri clipped the inside of a wall that ended his day. Anders Krohn inherited the lead and maintained it until Lap 31, where he locked up his brakes in Turn 1 and sped into the runoff. And there sat Yacaman, who took the last four laps with ease to get his first win as a Firestone Indy Lights driver.

"Getting my first win at Baltimore was really important for me last year, a lot of hard work during many years was put into making that happen," Yacaman said. "This gave us a very big energy boost to keep going."

This season, he'll be joined by twelve other cars for a field of thirteen, including new entry Adderly Fong and Emerson Newton-John, who returns for his second Firestone Indy Lights start. Fong, from Hong Kong, China, will run the No. 8 car with Brooks Associates Racing, which is making its first start in the series since the Grand Prix of Long Beach. Newton-John returns to Fan Force United in the No. 42 Pink & Blue For Two car.

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This is the penultimate race of the 2012 season, and the championship is no where near settled. Points leader Guerrieri is locked in yet another tight battle with a teammate, just seven points ahead of rookie Tristan Vautier. Andretti Autosport's Sebastian Saavedra and Yacaman are close behind in third and fourth. With new track changes, including the removal of the chicane on the Pratt Street main straightaway, the right-hand Turn 1 widening and a shape change to Turns 5 and 6, the track will be a new challenge even to the veterans.

"Baltimore is a really hard track" Yacaman said. "In a lot of street tracks there's a gap between the apex and the wall, here the wall is the apex, the last two corners are completely blind, really fast, almost flat out and really scary."

The Firestone Indy Lights Grand Prix of Baltimore will be broadcast live on NBC Sports Network Sunday, Sept. 2 at 12:30 p.m. ET.