Here are your Red Bull GRC TV times, entry lists for Daytona doubleheader - MotorSportsTalk

This is a big week for the Red Bull Global Rallycross championship, with its first doubleheader weekend of the season in Daytona Beach.

Coverage of the Daytona double will occur this Sunday, June 21, at 2 p.m. ET on NBC. Highlights of race one will be shown along with live coverage of the finals of race two.

Additionally, GRC Lites content from Daytona will be shown on Friday, June 26, at 2 p.m. ET on NBCSN.

Here’s more info, and additionally, the entry lists for the week:

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RED BULL GLOBAL RALLYCROSS – DAYTONA – SUNDAY AT 2 P.M. ET ON NBC

NBC presents the second event of the Red Bull Global RallyCross season this week with coverage from Daytona International Speedway on Sunday at 2 p.m. ET. In the first race of the season on May 31, Ken Block (Hoonigan Racing Division) took first place ahead of Scott Speed (Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross) to kick off 2015 with a victory.

Toby Moody (play-by-play) will call the action, alongside NBC Sports Group motorsports analyst Townsend Bell and reporter Kristen Kenney.

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Entry list notes in brief are that Nelson Piquet Jr. returns at SH Rallycross after missing the X Games due to his FIA Formula E commitments, where Andreas Bakkerud filled in. Meanwhile Jeff Ward makes his first start for Chip Ganassi Racing. Harry Cheung makes his first start in GRC Lites to bring that field up to 11 cars.

The Supercar entry list as follows:

No.	Driver	Hometown	Team
00	Steve Arpin	Fort Frances, ON	Chip Ganassi Racing Ford Fiesta ST
07	Nelson Piquet Jr.	Brasilia, BRA	SH Racing Rallycross Ford Fiesta ST
11	Sverre Isachsen	Hokksund, NOR	Subaru Rally Team USA WRX STI
14	Austin Dyne	Los Angeles, CA	Bryan Herta Rallysport Ford Fiesta ST
18	Patrik Sandell	Ostersund, SWE	Bryan Herta Rallysport Ford Fiesta ST
31	Joni Wiman	Pohja, FIN	Olsbergs MSE Ford Fiesta ST
34	Tanner Foust	Denver, CO	Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross Beetle
41	Scott Speed	Mt. Holly, NC	Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross Beetle
43	Ken Block	Park City, UT	Hoonigan Racing Division Ford Fiesta ST
81	Bucky Lasek	Dundalk, MD	Subaru Rally Team USA WRX STI
93	Sebastian Eriksson (R)	Hagfors, SWE	Olsbergs MSE Ford Fiesta ST
360	Jeff Ward (R)	Glasgow, SCO	Chip Ganassi Racing Ford Fiesta ST

The GRC Lites entry list is as follows:

No.	Driver	Hometown	Team
6	Geoff Sykes	Los Angeles, CA	Tim Bell Racing
07	Collete Davis (R)	San Francisco, CA	River Racing
15	Tanner Whitten (R)	Rochester, IL	DirtFish Motorsports
16	Oliver Eriksson	Osmo, SWE	Olsbergs MSE
24	Miles Maroney (R)	Topanga, CA	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing
42	Nur Ali (R)	Trophy Club, TX	AF Racing
57	Jackie Heinricher (R)	Mt. Vernon, WA	Rhys Millen Racing
61	Alex Keyes (R)	Folsom, CA	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing
77	Austin Cindric	Mooresville, NC	Olsbergs MSE
88	Harry Cheung	San Francisco, CA	Rhys Millen Racing
126	Alejandro Fernandez	Bogota, COL	AF Racing

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An IndyCar executive said there is “absolutely” disappointment that its long-awaited video game recently was delayed beyond its target date, but the series remains optimistic about the new title.

“Well, I don’t know how quick it will be, but the whole situation is important to us,” Penske Entertainment president and CEO Mark Miles said during a news conference Monday morning to announce IndyCar’s NTT title sponsorship. “Motorsport Games has spent a lot of money, a lot of effort to create an IndyCar title. What we’ve seen of that effort, which is not completely obvious, is very reassuring.

“I think it’s going to be outstanding. That’s our shared objective, that when it is released, it’s just widely accepted. A great credit both to IndyCar racing, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, something that our fans love.”

In June 2021, IndyCar announced a new partnership with Motorsport Games to create and distribute an IndyCar video game for the PC and Xbox and PlayStation consoles in 2023.

But during an earnings call last week, Motorsport Games said the IndyCar game had been delayed to 2024 to ensure high quality.

Somewhat compounding the delay is that IndyCar’s license for iRacing expired after the end of the 2022 season because of its exclusive agreement with Motorsport Games.

That’s resulted in significant changes for IndyCar on iRacing, which had provided a high-profile way for the series to stay visible during its 2020 shutdown from the pandemic. (Players still can race an unbranded car but don’t race on current IndyCar tracks, nor can they stream).

That’s helped ratchet up the attention on having a video game outlet for IndyCar.

“I wish we had an IndyCar title 10 years ago,” said Miles, who has been working with the organization since 2013. “We’ve been close, but we’ve had these I think speed bumps.”

IndyCar is hopeful the Motorsports Game edition will be ready at the start of 2024. Miles hinted that beta versions could be unveiled to reporters ahead of the time “to begin to show the progress in a narrow way to make sure we’ve got it right, to test the progress so that we’re ready when they’re ready.”

It’s been nearly 18 years since the release of the most recent IndyCar video game for console or PC.

“(We) better get it right,” Miles said. “It’s something we’re very close to and continue to think about what it is to make sure we get it over the line in due course.”