NBC Sports Network will broadcast the Milwaukee IndyFest at 2 p.m. (ET) today, starting with the Firestone Indy Lights race. The IZOD IndyCar Series race gets the green flag at 4:40 p.m. (ET). It's the ninth of 19 races on the schedule. Helio Castroneves is the championship points leader.
Chief announcer Leigh Diffey will be joined in the broadcast booth by former driver and current Formula One analyst David Hobbs and Townsend Bell. For the broadcast, Hobbs was a passenger for a track lap in a 1932 Miller.
Click it: Milwaukee IndyFest starting lineup
Radio broadcast: IMS Radio Network affiliates, Sirius and XM 211, American Forces Network, INDYCAR 13 app, indycar.com
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Chief announcer: Mike King
Timing & Scoring: INDYCAR 13 app, Race Control on indycar.com
Twitter: @IndyCar (#indycar), @MKE_IndyFest (#IndyFest)
Track layout: 1-mile oval with 9 degrees of banking in turns
Length: 250 laps
Start: Rolling ... Restarts: Double file
Verizon P1 Award winner: Marco Andretti, No. 25 RC Cola car for Andretti Autosport (170.515 mph, two-lap average)
He said it: “We knew James Hinchcliffe was going to be the one to beat. I knew I was going to have to go flat in Turns 1 and 2 on both laps and I was able to pull it off," Andretti said. "It was tough to find the balance on end to end because the wind was doing different things. The car so far is right where we need to be in race trim, too. There is no magic; it’s just doing everything right."
What to watch: The Milwaukee Mile is considered a “driver's track,” where race setup is the key and a driver has the ability to thread his way through the field with traffic playing a key role in the ebb and flow of the race. Once the fast group of drivers catches up to the tail end of the field the fun begins as the driver that is able to best use traffic to his advantage can determine the outcome.
Did you know: Ryan Hunter-Reay scored his second career Indy car victory when he won the Champ Car race at Milwaukee on June 4, 2004. He started on the pole and led all 250 laps. Hunter-Reay is also the last IndyCar Series race winner at Milwaukee, driving to victory on June 16, 2012.