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The IndyCar Series welcomes a new era as the much-anticipated hybrid power unit makes its official race debut at the 13-turn, a 2.258-mile permanent road course in Lexington, Ohio.

This weekend will be the second time North America’s premier open-wheel championship will race on the completely resurfaced 4.014-mile, 14-turn natural terrain road course.

Just seven days on from IndyCar’s fastest and most prestigious race at the Indianapolis 500, the paddock journeyed just under 300 miles northeast to its shortest and bumpiest street track on the schedule.

The Penske PC27 is a somewhat improbable choice for Al Unser Jr’s favourite car. A two-time Indianapolis 500 winner and two-time IndyCar champion, he had his greatest successes at the wheel of the Lola T90/00, Galmer G92 and Penske PC23-94 in US open-wheel racing. By contrast, he went winless in the radical PC27…

Excitement is at an all-time high with the build-up to the Indy 500 well underway - but the weather is not looking so kind.  Rain is forecasted for race day, which could severely impact proceedings as the Indy 500 does not run in the wet, due to the threat of…

Qualifying commences at 11am ET on Saturday, 18 May. Each car is given a single, four-lap run to set an average speed – and goes in an order selected by random draw on Friday night (listed at the bottom of this story).

The latest edition of the championship rivalry building between Abel and Nolan Siegel (HMD Motorsports) took to the 2.439-mile, 14-turn circuit, with the former successfully defending the lead despite a restart with three laps to go to win by 0.5470s.

A 23-year-old Kentucky native, Abel fended off the challenges of Nolan Siegel and managed all 35 laps around the 2.3-mile, 17-turn natural terrain road course, which ended under caution.

Last month, the IndyCar Series confirmed the switch of its final race on September 15 from the downtown streets of Nashville to the 1.33-mile D-shaped concrete oval in nearby Lebanon, Tennessee.

Kirkwood, who won at street tracks at Long Beach and Nashville last year, failed to progress from the first stage of qualifying and blamed a strategy call for pushing too late on the alternate compound Firestone tires, having missed the sweet spot of the rubber.

The addition of the 21-year-old British racer sees Abel’s program expand to three entries, which also features veteran Jacob Abel and another incoming rookie in Yuven Sundaramoorthy.