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# Podcast: Your insider guide to the 2021 Indy 500
- URL: https://www.the-race.com/indycar/podcast-your-insider-guide-to-the-2021-indy-500/
- Published: 2021-05-20T10:00:55.000Z
- Updated: 2023-09-16T16:41:05.000Z
- Description: The Race IndyCar Podcast’s co-host JR Hildebrand is back in the series for the Indianapolis 500 – which makes him exceptionally well-qualified to talk you through everything you need to know about the big race
- Author: Matt Beer
- Tags: IndyCar, #image-bottom-left

This week on the IndyCar Podcast, co-host JR Hildebrand gives you an expert preview ahead of what will be his 11th attempt to qualify for the Indianapolis 500.

This year Hildebrand is racing for the AJ Foyt team and driving a 60th anniversary throwback paint scheme of Foyt’s first win.

With practice under way and qualifying this weekend, Hildebrand gives you some insider tips on what to look for, how to asses the practice order and how to gain the most from the week’s action as a viewer, while also helping to explain the complicated schedule of the 500.

[May 20 : How to prepare for the Indy 500 + why Grosjean missed out on a first win](https://www.spreaker.com/episode/44925057?ref=the-race.com) 

As ever Hildebrand is joined by The Race’s American Editor Jack Benyon and the duo also look back on the Indianapolis road course race last weekend where Romain Grosjean took a stunning pole and Rinus VeeKay completed the unrivalled quartet of winning at every level of the Road to Indy and now in IndyCar, where he became its sixth youngest winner at just 20.

Hildebrand expertly breaks down the blue flag situation which [Grosjean said cost him the race](https://www.the-race.com/indycar/grosjean-traffic-cost-us-first-indycar-win/) having been on both sides of that story. That incident became a talking point for fans of F1 watching Grosjean as IndyCar doesn’t always enforce blue flags like its fellow series.

Don’t forget to rate and review the new-for-2021 podcast on your favourite listening platform of choice. To find the show, search ‘The Race IndyCar Podcast’.

– [Listen on Apple Podcasts](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-race-indycar-podcast/id1562111488?ref=the-race.com)  
– [Listen on Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/4eOLGE5C4CDMeYhYFrZGbm?ref=the-race.com)