2024 Indy NXT

The 2024 Firestone Indy NXT Series will be the 37th season of the Indy NXT open wheel motor racing series and the 22nd sanctioned by IndyCar, acting as the primary support series for the IndyCar Series. This will be the second year of the championship running under the Indy NXT moniker following its acquisition by Penske Entertainment, the owner of the IndyCar Series, in 2022.[1]

2024 Indy NXT season
Firestone Indy NXT Series
Season
Races14
Start dateMarch 10
End dateSeptember 15
Awards

Team and driver chart

All teams will use Dallara IL-15 cars with an AER produced Mazda sourced 2.0 litre engine and Firestone tires. The following drivers and teams are scheduled to compete in the series.

Team No. Drivers Round(s)
Abel Motorsports 22 United States Yuven Sundaramoorthy[2]  R  All
Andretti Global[3] 26 United Kingdom Louis Foster[4] All
27 United States Bryce Aron[5]  R  All
28 United Kingdom Jamie Chadwick[6] All
29 Republic of Ireland James Roe Jr.[7] All
HMD Motorsports 7 United States Christian Bogle[8] All
10 United States Reece Gold[9] All
14 United States Josh Pierson[10] All
39 United States Nolan Siegel[11] All
HMD Motorsports with Force Indy 99 United States Myles Rowe[12]  R  All
R Eligible for Rookie of the Year

Team changes
  • On September 5, 2023, Andretti Autosport announced a rebrand that would take effect for the 2024 season, with all of its race teams running under the Andretti Global banner.[3]

Driver changes

Schedule


The 2024 schedule was announced on October 4, 2023. The IMS weekend in May became a double-header again as the second IMS weekend was removed, while the Detroit weekend will only hold a single race. The Laguna Seca double-header was moved to June following the rescheduling of the Monterey Grand Prix. The round at Nashville became the season finale to follow the same move for the Music City Grand Prix. The championship will return to the Milwaukee Mile for the first time since 2015.[15]

Rd. Date Race name Track Location
1 March 10 TBA  R  Streets of St. Petersburg St. Petersburg, Florida
2 April 28 TBA  R  Barber Motorsports Park Birmingham, Alabama
3 May 10 TBA  R  Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course Speedway, Indiana
4 May 11 TBA
5 June 2 TBA  R  Detroit Street Circuit Detroit, Michigan
6 June 9 TBA  R  Road America Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin
7 June 22 TBA  R  WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca Monterey, California
8 June 23 TBA
9 July 7 TBA  R  Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Lexington, Ohio
10 July 13 TBA  O  Iowa Speedway Newton, Iowa
11 August 17 TBA  O  World Wide Technology Raceway Madison, Illinois
12 August 25 TBA  R  Portland International Raceway Portland, Oregon
13 August 31 TBA  O  Milwaukee Mile West Allis, Wisconsin
14 September 15 TBA  R  Nashville Street Circuit Nashville, Tennessee
O Oval track
R Road/street course

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 50 40 35 32 30 28 26 24 22 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10
  • The driver who qualifies on pole will be awarded one additional point.
  • Every driver who leads at least one lap will be awarded a bonus point, the driver who leads the most laps will get two points.

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 will receive 3 bonus points as an equivalency to multi-car teams
  • Only the best two results will count for teams fielding more than two entries

See also

References
  1. "Indy Lights rebranded for 2023 as "INDY NXT by Firestone"". MSN. Retrieved November 3, 2022.
  2. Pruett, Marshall (October 19, 2023). "Sundaramoorthy joins Abel Motorsports for Indy NXT". Racer.com.
  3. "Andretti Autosport to Rebrand as Andretti Global". Andretti Autosport. Retrieved September 26, 2023.
  4. "Louis Foster to Return to Andretti Global in 2024 For Second INDY NXT Season". Andretti Autosport. Retrieved October 16, 2023.
  5. "Aron To Make INDY NXT by Firestone Debut with Andretti". IndyCar.com. Retrieved October 11, 2023.
  6. "Chadwick Staying in Andretti Lineup for 2024 Season". IndyCar.com. Retrieved October 19, 2023.
  7. Pruett, Marshall (October 9, 2023). "Bogle and Roe back in Indy NXT in 2024". Racer.com.
  8. "CHRISTIAN BOGLE REJOINS HMD MOTORSPORTS FOR THE 2024 INDY NXT BY FIRESTONE SEASON". RTD Media. October 3, 2023.
  9. Media, R. T. D. (September 26, 2023). "REECE GOLD RETURNS TO HMD MOTORSPORTS FOR THE 2024 SEASON". RTD Media. Retrieved September 26, 2023.
  10. "Pierson To Continue with HMD Motorsports in 2024". IndyCar.com. Retrieved October 24, 2023.
  11. "2023 INDY NXT ROOKIE OF THE YEAR NOLAN SIEGEL RETURNING TO HMD MOTORSPORTS FOR 2024". RTD Media. October 10, 2023.
  12. "Myles Rowe lands Indy NXT ride at HMD Motorsports with Force Indy". www.motorsport.com. September 6, 2023. Retrieved September 26, 2023.
  13. Wood, Ida (September 18, 2023). "Ganassi development driver Kyffin Simpson gets IndyCar seat for 2024". Formula Scout. Retrieved September 26, 2023.
  14. "Rasmussen To Race Partial Schedule for ECR in 2024". IndyCar.com. Retrieved October 25, 2023.
  15. "14-Race 2024 INDY NXT by Firestone Schedule Announced". IndyCar.com. Retrieved October 4, 2023.
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