Race Title: | Pennzoil 150 |
Track Map: | Indianapolis IndycarGP.svg |
Series Long: | NASCAR Xfinity Series |
Venue: | Indianapolis Motor Speedway |
Location: | Speedway, Indiana, United States |
Sponsor: | Royal Dutch Shell |
First Race: | 2020 |
Last Race: | 2023 |
Distance: | 151.218miles |
Laps: | 62 Stages 1/2: 20 each Final stage: 22 |
Most Wins Driver: | All winning drivers had 1 |
Most Wins Team: | All winning teams had 1 |
Most Wins Manufacturer: | Ford (2) |
Surface: | Asphalt |
Length Mi: | 2.439 |
Turns: | 14 |
The Pennzoil 150 was a NASCAR Xfinity Series auto race held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course from 2020 to 2023. The race was held on the Saturday before the NASCAR Cup Series' Brickyard 400 in 2020 and Verizon 200 at the Brickyard from 2021 to 2023. The IndyCar Series' Grand Prix of Indianapolis was also held on the same day as this race in all four years it was run. The Xfinity and Cup Series races at the track were moved back to the oval in 2024, reviving the Pennzoil 250 and the Brickyard 400.
After longtime NASCAR and IndyCar team owner Roger Penske purchased Indianapolis Motor Speedway from the George family in 2019, it announced on January 15, 2020 that the Xfinity Series race at Indianapolis would move from the oval to the track's infield road course. However, the NASCAR Cup Series race at the track would remain on the oval.[1] The Cup Series race would end up moving to the road course the following year. On February 4, 2020, it was announced that Royal Dutch Shell, a Penske sponsor of their No. 22 Cup Series car driven by Joey Logano, would become the title sponsor of the race, renaming it the Pennzoil 150 after their Pennzoil brand.[2]
On March 26, 2020, as part of changes to the 2020 IndyCar Series schedule due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was announced that the series' GMR Grand Prix, an IMS road course race typically held as a prelude to the Indianapolis 500, would be postponed to July 4, 2020, and this would form an IndyCar/NASCAR double-header with the Pennzoil 150.[3]
Year | Date | Driver | Team | Manufacturer | Race Distance | Race Time | Average Speed (mph) | Ref | |||
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Laps | Miles (km) | ||||||||||
2020 | July 4 | 98 | Chase Briscoe | Stewart-Haas Racing | Ford | 62 | 151.218 (243.362) | 2:02:48 | 73.885 | [4] | |
2021 | August 14 | 22 | Austin Cindric | Team Penske | Ford | 62 | 151.218 (243.362) | 2:02:54 | 73.825 | [5] | |
2022 | July 30 | 16 | A. J. Allmendinger | Kaulig Racing | Chevrolet | 62 | 151.218 (243.362) | 1:56:35 | 77.825 | [6] | |
2023 | August 12 | 19 | Ty Gibbs | Joe Gibbs Racing | Toyota | 62 | 151.218 (243.362) | 1:57:34 | 77.174 | [7] |
| Make | Years Won |
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2 | Ford | 2020, 2021 |
1 | Chevrolet | 2022 |
Toyota | 2023 |