- Kyle Larson scored himself another victory Wednesday, this time in a rare type of USAC NoS Energy Drink Midget National Championship race. He won the Stoops Pursuit, a 25-lap race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway's dirt track where cars that get passed are eliminated. He took the lead from Kyle Cummins with two laps to go to
win.
- In Free Practice No. 2 Wednesday night, Toyota GAZOO Racing's Sebastien Buemi was fastest with a lap at 145.633 mph, roughly three seconds off of the provisional pole time (see below). He was three-eighths of a second faster than teammate Kamui Kobayashi. Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus' Pipo Derani was third fastest, then Signatech Alpine's Nicolas
Lapierre and Ryan Briscoe in the second Glickenhaus.
LMP2 saw JOTA Sport's Anthony Davidson go fastest with a lap at 143.549 mph, good for sixth overall. Davidson's lap was two-tenths of a second faster than Realteam Racing's Norman Nato, fresh off of his Formula E victory Sunday in Berlin. United Autosports' Filipe Albuquerque was third fastest, then G-Drive Racing's Franco Colapinto and
DragonSpeed's Ben Hanley.
WeatherTech Racing's Laurens Vanthoor was fastest in GTE-Pro with a lap at 133.127 mph in his Porsche 911 RSR-19. The lap was nine-tenths of a second faster than the factory-entered Porsche of Frederic Makowiecki. AF Corse's Sam Bird was third fastest in his Ferrari, then Neel Jani in the second factory Porsche. HubAuto Racing's Maxime Martin was
fifth.
GTE-Am was led by Dempsey-Proton Racing's Julien Andlauer, who turned in a lap at 131.727 mph, seventh fastest of all GT entries and quicker than both of the Corvettes. Andlauer's lap was a half-second quicker than the Ferrari of Rinaldi Racing's Jeroen Bleekemolen. Team Project 1's Riccardo Pera was third fastest, then Absolute Racing's Alessio
Picariello. Spirit of Race's David Perel was fifth quickest.
- The FIA announced Thursday morning that the three FIA-sanctioned events scheduled to be held in Macau this year (the FIA GT World Cup, FIA Formula 3 World Cup, and the World Touring Car Cup Race of Macau) have all
been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Macau Grand Prix weekend on the 3.8-mile Guia Circuit will go ahead, but it will be a much smaller race weekend.
- For the World Touring Car Cup, the entire Asian swing of races in South Korea, China and Macau have been cancelled, mainly due to the strict quarantine requirements in the region. For the equipment to reach the Far
East via container ship, they would have to leave Europe in the next 10-15 days to get to South Korea in time. With no idea when the quarantine requirements would end, the races have had to be scrubbed once again.
Three new races have been added to the schedule to replace the Asian events. One is at Autodrom Most in the Czech Republic. Another will be at the upgraded Circuit Pau-Arnos, a 1.883-mile road course in France. The third new venue is the Sochi Autodrom in Russia.