IndyCar setup sheet: Road America

What: Sonsio Grand Prix at Road America / Race 8 of the 2023 NTT IndyCar Series

Where: Natural road course at Elkhart Lake, Wis.

When: Sunday, June 18, 1:00pm ET (green flag 1:15pm ET)

From the near-flat and often flat-out turns of Indianapolis Motor Speedway, to the first and second-gear point ’n’ squirt, bump ’n’ grind street course in Detroit, to the hold-your-breath open sweepers and technical medium-speed turns at Road America this weekend. There’s no sequence in the 17-race NTT IndyCar Series schedule where the series more obviously demands its drivers to be the most versatile racers on earth.

People — drivers and fans alike — wax lyrical about Road America, calling it the United States’ greatest road course, with frequent comparisons to Formula 1’s Spa-Francorchamps. And with good reason, too: huge elevation changes, varied track surfaces, and unforgiving corners. Even where there’s runoff it can be hard to return to the asphalt

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