The race was held on Friday, June 4, in Lexington, Ohio at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, a 2.258 miles (3.634 km) permanent road course.

The track is a road course auto racing facility located in Troy Township, Morrow County, Ohio, United States, just outside the village of Lexington.

Mid-Ohio has also colloquially become a term for the entire north-central region of the state, from south of Sandusky to the north of Columbus.

There is grandstand seating for 10,000 spectators and three observation mounds alongside the track raise the capacity to over 75,000.

Corey Heim of Venturini Motorsports would win the pole, setting a time of one minute, 27.877 seconds and an average speed of 92.502 miles per hour (148.868 km/h).