The busiest and greatest weekend in motorsports takes place this weekend from Monaco, Indianapolis and Charlotte, and you can see quite a bit of it today on NBCSN from 11 a.m. ET. The live stream link is here, via the NBC Sports App.
Indianapolis 500 Carb Day coverage will run from 11 a.m. through to 3:30 p.m. ET, in several chunks:
- IndyCar final practice for the 101st Indianapolis 500 presented by PennGrade Motor Oil runs from 11 a.m. to noon ET. Kevin Lee, Townsend Bell and Paul Tracy will be in the booth with Marty Snider, Jon Beekhuis, Katie Hargitt and Robin Miller on pit lane.
- From there, at noon, it’s the marquee race of the Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tires season - the Freedom 100. With finishes of 0.0024 (2016, Dean Stoneman over Ed Jones), 0.0026 (2013, Peter Dempsey over three others) and 0.005 (2014, Gabby Chaves over Matthew Brabham), the Freedom 100 is known for fantastic and close finishes. Lee and Anders Krohn will be in the booth with Hargitt and Beekhuis reporting from the pits. The starting grid for that is linked here.
- At 2 p.m. ET, it’s the Indy Pit Stop Competition, with the IndyCar crew back in for that. While some of the bigger teams are usually the ones that wins this, others such as Mikhail Aleshin for Schmidt Peterson Motorsports and Sage Karam for Dreyer & Reinbold Racing have stolen the show in this competition in recent years.
The coverage from Indianapolis runs for those four and a half hours, and leads straight into the now-annual NASCAR AMERICA Motorsports Special, which features live coverage from NBC crews in all of Indianapolis, Monaco and Charlotte and runs from 3:30 to 5 p.m. ET on NBCSN. A standard NASCAR AMERICA show runs from 5 to 6 p.m. ET.
Among the items to look forward to from Indy and Monaco in that show:
- An update on Fernando Alonso’s crazy month of May, ahead of his first Indianapolis 500
- Robin Miller tours the A.J. Foyt Exhibit at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum
- A look at Will Power, the dad, and the change that’s come to his life
- From Monaco, a look at this season’s stellar battle between Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel
- A look at the magic of Monaco and a simulation of the track
As a reminder, here’s the IndyCar times from this weekend, and a link to the F1 times as well.
#CarbDay is just a few short days away! Be sure to join us on @NBCSN for #Indy500 practice, #Freedom100 & pit stop competition! #IndyCar pic.twitter.com/4TvgCfEsOQ
— INDYCAR on NBC (@IndyCaronNBC) May 22, 2017
Here's your times for #MonacoGP across @NBC @NBCSN @NBCSportsApp; note trad'l Thurs. practice, not Fri. #F1onNBC pic.twitter.com/3DwXQS86V4
— Motorsports on NBC (@MotorsportsNBC) May 17, 2017