The green flag drops on a brand new NTT INDYCAR SERIES this weekend at the series’ traditional season-opening location – the streets of St. Petersburg, Fla. <\/p>\n
Following a record-setting 2025 season, the Arrow McLaren IndyCar Team will look to get off to a strong start in 2026 at the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. <\/p>\n
The team returns all three of its drivers – Pato O’Ward, Nolan Siegel and Christian Lundgaard – for the upcoming campaign. Following last week’s Unser INDYCAR Open Test at Phoenix Raceway on Feb. 17-18, the trio of Arrow McLaren pilots will be on track in St. Pete on Friday, Feb. 27 ahead of race day on March 1. <\/p>\n
See what the drivers are saying ahead of the season-opening race weekend:<\/p>\n
Location<\/p>\n
St. Petersburg, Fla.<\/p>\n
Race Date<\/p>\n
March 1<\/p>\n
Round<\/p>\n
1 out of 18<\/p>\n
Total Laps<\/p>\n
100<\/p>\n
Total Race Distance<\/p>\n
180 miles \/ 289.68 km<\/p>\n
Track Length<\/p>\n
1.8 miles \/ 2.9 km<\/p>\n
Number of Turns<\/p>\n
14<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The green flag drops on a brand new NTT INDYCAR SERIES this weekend at the series’ traditional season-opening…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-168949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}