Grand Prix of St. Petersburg: By the numbers

20 million: Pounds of concrete along the track

40,000: Feet of chain-link fencing at the track

12,000: Tires used as safety barriers along the course

500: Local volunteers involved in the event

1,564: Firestone tires supplied for IndyCar’s weekend. Each car gets seven primary sets, four alternate sets and five rain sets.

154,594: Estimated number of rotations for each front tire over the race’s 110 laps

4: Previous Grand Prix winners expected to be in the field (Graham Rahal, Will Power, James Hinchcliffe, Sebastien Bourdais)

2: Consecutive Grand Prix wins for Bourdais, a St. Petersburg resident

3: Consecutive years with a record crowd, according to race officials

$411,000: Money donated to Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital over seven years of the Kart 4 Kids Pro-Am Race

8: Grand Prix victories by Team Penske

5: IndyCar Series titles won by reigning series champion Scott Dixon

107.914: MPH by Jordan King, who set the track record during qualifying last year

49: States represented among advanced ticket buyers last year