This Weekend in Auto Racing (May 15th, 2021)
IndyCar's Month of May is underway with a short trip to the infield road course, IMSA is (finally) back to sprint racing, and NASCAR is back at Dover.
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IndyCar's Month of May is here. The Indianapolis Grand Prix on the track's infield road course is a young tradition, but it has been tradition long enough that there is some pattern to it. Racing at Indianapolis now opens with a wholly unrelated race, before preparations for the 500 takes over the oval for the next two weeks starting tomorrow.
The headline of the day is the shocking qualifying performance of Romain Grosjean. The former Haas and Lotus F1 driver was by no means slow in his first two races of the year, but he had been a clear step behind both the contenders of the field and fellow rookie Scott McLaughlin. This was not so yesterday, and, in a qualifying session where giants like Will Power, Scott Dixon, and Patricio O'Ward missed the Fast Twelve cut-off, he and his Dale Coyne Racing team found themselves in a perfect position to capitalize. The pole is Grosjean's first in an IndyCar, and it comes in just his third career race.