2026 Indy NXT

2026 Indy NXT season
Firestone Indy NXT Series
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The 2026 Firestone Indy NXT Series is scheduled to be the 40th season of the Indy NXT open wheel auto racing series and the 24th sanctioned by IndyCar, acting as the primary support series for the IndyCar Series. This will be the fourth year of the championship running under the Indy NXT moniker following its acquisition by Penske Entertainment, the owner of the IndyCar Series, in 2022. ^[1]

Teams and drivers

All teams will use Dallara IL-15 cars with an AER produced Mazda sourced 2.0 litre engine and Firestone tires. The following drivers and teams are scheduled to compete in the series.

Team No. Drivers Status Round(s) Abel Motorsports with Force Indy 99 Myles Rowe [2] All Cusick Morgan Motorsports [3] [4] TBA TBA TBC TBA TBA TBC HMD Motorsports [3] TBA TBA TBC TBA TBA TBC TBA TBA TBC TBA TBA TBC Juncos Hollinger Racing [5] TBA TBA TBC

Icon Status R Eligible for Rookie of the Year  RY  Rookie of the Year

Team changes

• On August 27, 2025, IndyCar team Cusick Motorsports announced it would enter two cars in the Indy NXT series in a technical partnership with HMD Motorsports that would also see the latter team scale back its Indy NXT program to four cars. ^[3] On September 5, 2025, Cusick Motorsports announced it had rebranded to Cusick Morgan Motorsports after its team director Billy Morgan. ^[4]
• On September 8, 2025, Juncos Hollinger Racing announced its return to the Indy NXT series. The team had previously competed in the series until the 2024 season, when it had elected to temporarily step back from competing in Indy NXT to focus on its IndyCar efforts. ^[5]

Championship standings

Scoring system

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th	16th	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st
Points	50	40	35	32	30	28	26	24	22	20	19	18	17	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9

• The fastest driver in each qualifying session will be awarded one additional point.
• Every driver who led at least one lap will be awarded a bonus point, the driver who led the most laps will get two points.

Entrants will score points in the same way drivers score points, including bonus points for pole position and laps led.

See also

• 2026 IndyCar Series

References

1. "Indy Lights rebranded for 2023 as "INDY NXT by Firestone"". MSN. Retrieved November 3, 2022.
2. Wood, Ida (September 5, 2025). "Myles Rowe commits to third Indy Nxt season and second with Abel". Formula Scout. Retrieved September 8, 2025.
3. "Cusick Team Joins Series in 2026 in Technical Alliance with HMD". Indy NXT . August 27, 2025. Retrieved September 8, 2025.
4. "Cusick Team Rebrands to Cusick Morgan Motorsports". Indy NXT . September 4, 2025. Retrieved September 9, 2025.
5. "Juncos Hollinger Racing Returning to INDY NXT in 2026". Indy NXT . September 8, 2025. Retrieved September 8, 2025.

External links

• Indy NXT website