IndyCar: 2021 Texas – Full race 1 starting lineup

The starting lineup for the first of two IndyCar races at Texas Motor Speedway this weekend, the Genesys 300, is set after qualifying was rained out.

The starting lineups for both of the races of this weekend’s IndyCar doubleheader at Texas Motor Speedway were supposed to be set in the same qualifying session using a unique qualifying format that was introduced last season before the doubleheader at Iowa Speedway.

In typical non-Indy 500 oval qualifying fashion, each driver entered in the event was slated to make a two-lap qualifying attempt, with each driver’s first lap counting toward determining the starting lineup for the first race, this evening’s Genesys 300, and each driver’s second lap counting toward determining the starting lineup for the second race, tomorrow evening’s XPEL 375.

However, the qualifying session was canceled due to rain, meaning that IndyCar used championship entrant points to set the starting lineup for the first race.

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Championship entrant points will also be used to set the starting lineup for the second race, but that lineup will be based on how the entrant points look after the first race, not how they look entering the weekend.

For this evening’s Genesys 300, championship leader Alex Palou of Chip Ganassi Racing is slated to start from the pole position behind the wheel of his #10 Honda. Set to start alongside Palou on the front row for this 212-lap race around the four-turn, 1.44-mile (2.317-kilometer) oval in Fort Worth, Texas is Team Penske’s Will Power in second place behind the wheel of his #12 Chevrolet.

Not all drivers will line up where they rank in the championship standings, as entrant points are based on the cars, not the drivers. Only 20 of the 24 drivers in this race are set to drive the same cars they drove in the season’s first two races. One of the other four drivers is in a different car, the other three drivers have not yet competed this season.

Here is the full starting lineup for the 2021 Genesys 300 at Texas Motor Speedway.

Starting Lineup
1st – Alex Palou
2nd – Will Power
3rd – Scott Dixon
4th – Colton Herta
5th – Simon Pagenaud
6th – Jack Harvey
7th – Sebastien Bourdais
8th – Rinus VeeKay
9th – Marcus Ericsson
10th – Josef Newgarden
11th – Pato O’Ward
12th – Takuma Sato
13th – Graham Rahal
14th – Pietro Fittipaldi
15th – Scott McLaughlin
16th – Alexander Rossi
17th – Ed Carpenter
18th – Felix Rosenqvist
19th – Ed Jones
20th – James Hinchcliffe
21st – Ryan Hunter-Reay
22nd – Dalton Kellett
23rd – Tony Kanaan
24th – Conor Daly

The Genesys 300 is set to be broadcast live from Texas Motor Speedway on NBC Sports Network beginning at 7:00 p.m. ET this evening. The XPEL 375 is set to be broadcast live from the track on the same network beginning at 5:00 p.m. ET tomorrow evening.