IndyCar paint schemes for 2020 - MotorSportsTalk

IndyCar’s 2020 season has arrived and with it comes the first look at some of the paint schemes teams will sport throughout the year.

To help spot your favorite driver on the track, NBCSports.com has compiled the confirmed paint schemes (some featuring multiple designs on the same car) for the 2020 NTT IndyCar Series season.

Here’s a look at what teams have released so far, including many that will run in Sunday’s Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg (2:30 p.m. ET on NBCSN):

Josef Newgarden – Team Penske’s No. 1 Chevrolet

Hitachi will serve as Newgarden’s primary sponsor in eight races this season. (Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images)

PPG will serve as Newgarden’s primary sponsor in five races this season. (PPG)

XPEL will serve as Newgarden’s primary sponsor at the IndyCar GP and Texas. (Team Penske)

Charlie Kimball – A.J. Foyt Racing’s No. 4 Chevrolet

Novo Nordisk will serve as Kimball’s primary sponsor in seven races this season. (Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images)

Pato O’Ward – Arrow McLaren SP’s No. 5 Chevrolet

Oliver Askew – Arrow McLaren SP’s No. 7 Chevrolet

Marcus Ericsson – Chip Ganassi Racing’s No. 8 Honda

Scott Dixon – Chip Ganassi Racing’s No. 9 Honda

Felix Rosenqvist – Chip Ganassi Racing’s No. 10 Honda

Will Power – Team Penske’s No. 12 Chevrolet

Sebastien Bourdais – A.J. Foyt Racing’s No. 14 Chevrolet

Bourdais will drive for Foyt in four races this season. (Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images)

Graham Rahal – Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing’s No. 15 Honda

FVP will serve as Rahal’s primary sponsor at Gateway. (Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing)

Santino Ferrucci – Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser-Sullivan’s No. 18 Honda

Conor Daly – Ed Carpenter Racing’s No. 20 Chevrolet

Daly will driver for Carpenter in 13 races this season. (Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images)

Rinus VeeKay – Ed Carpenter Racing’s No. 21 Chevrolet

Simon Pagenaud – Team Penske’s No. 22 Chevrolet

Sage Karam – Dreyer & Reinbold Racing’s No. 24 Chevrolet

Zach Veach – Andretti Autosport’s No. 26 Honda

Alexander Rossi – Andretti Autosport’s No. 27 Honda

AutoNation will serve as Rossi’s primary sponsor in eight races this season. (Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images)

NAPA will serve as Rossi’s primary sponsor in nine races this season. (Andretti Autosport)

Ryan Hunter-Reay – Andretti Autosport’s No. 28 Honda

Takuma Sato – Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing’s No. 30 Honda

Felipe Nasr – Carlin’s No. 31 Chevrolet

Nasr will drive for Carlin at St. Petersburg. (Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images)

Alex Palou – Dale Coyne Racing with Team Goh’s No. 55 Honda

Max Chilton – Carlin’s No. 59 Honda

Chilton will drive for Carlin in 13 races this season. (Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images)

Jack Harvey – Meyer Shank Racing’s No. 60 Honda

Ben Hanley – DragonSpeed’s No. 81 Chevrolet

Hanley will drive for DragonSpeed at St. Petersburg. (DragonSpeed)

Colton Herta – Andretti Harding Steinbrenner Autosport’s No. 88 Honda

Capstone Turbine will serve as Herta’s primary sponsor in six races this season. (Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images)

Marco Andretti – Andretti Autosport’s No. 98 Honda

Travis Pastrana waited until the final trip around ERX Motor Park to take his Joker Lap – a longer way around the course that all drivers must do at least once in a race – and came out cleanly to win his first Nitro Rallycross race of 2022. With this win, Pastrana is the third driver to visit Victory Lane in the first three rounds of the 2022-23 season.

“This is the closest to a motocross track,” Pastrana told Katie Osborne on Peacock. “Thank you so much for a beautiful facility. It’s been a rough start to the season and I’m so thankful to be back out here. We had a good run in the side-by-side and now for this. This is much needed.”

Another thing needed was the sense of improvement. And Pastrana earned that affirmation each time he completed a lap around the course.

“I get my lap times read out and they said ‘fastest time of the week,’ ‘fastest time of the week’ (each time around) ” Pastrana said. “This is really special. We’re a long way behind in the championship, but welcome to America.”

In a pre-race press conference, Pastrana said that as Nitro Rallycross heads back to America, it was time for an American to win and he made good on his promise. Pastrana took the early lead over Robin Larsson and let the back of his Subaru hang out, taking risks he might not otherwise take if not for his need to win.

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Larsson’s second-place finish completed a perfect sweep of the podium in three rounds. In fact, he has not yet finished worse than second after winning the opening round at Lydden Hill in the United Kingdom and finishing second at Strangnas in Sweeden.

Fraser McConnel rounded out the podium for his best result of the season. He finished fourth in each of the first two rounds.

Last year, Pastrana finished second in this race to Scott Speed before narrowly edging his teammate for the championship.

Andreas Bakkerud crashed in prelims, but rebounded to finish just off the block in fourth. Bakkerud won the second round ahead of his teammate Larsson.

Oliver Bennett completed the top five.

Minneapolis is the first of three rounds scheduled in the United States. Next on the schedule is Glen Helen, Calif. on Octo 30 and then Phoenix at Wild Horse Pass on November 12th. Nitro Rallycross will then head to Saudi Arabia in December to continue their 2022-23 season.

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