A little-known fact about Firestone Indy Lights: the field includes a few sharp dressers.

While Ontario native David Ostella stands above the rest with his fedoras and zoot suits, he’s not the only one that’s going to be excited to visit one of Edmonton’s most popular attractions: the West Edmonton Mall. The mall is the largest in North America and fifth largest in the world, as Sam Schmidt Motorsport’s Oliver Webb recently discovered.

"I didn't know this,” he exclaimed when told. “I will be attending this on Thursday then. Normally, I like to go into the Mac store and play about. I also go clothes shopping and generally eat all the food the mall has to offer."

While the shopping will offer a small comfort to the 21-year-old Englishman, he’s more excited to get back to the Edmonton City Centre Airport course for the July 21 (3:30 p.m. local time) race, where he made his Firestone Indy Lights debut last season. He burst onto the scene with a third-place finish, and followed up in the second half of last year’s doubleheader format with a top five.

After competing in those races, plus the inaugural Grand Prix of Baltimore and the season finale at Las Vegas, Webb impressed enough to land a deal with Sam Schmidt Motorsports for the full 2012 season. Since then, he’s gathered three top-five finishes, including a third place at Belle Isle where he started from pole.

“(Edmonton) was my first introduction into the series and the first real time I considered moving to the States as a career path for my racing after Formula 3 and Renault World Series 3.5,” Webb said. “I was very pleased to get the deal with Sam in the No. 7 Lucas Oil machine for 2012. I hope with this being the only track so far this year that I've actually done before that a good result is in the cards.”

He’ll be joined by the same field he faced in the Toronto 100 two weeks ago, an eventful race that saw the top two championship contenders run into major trouble early and gave room to those close behind to draw closer.

Argentine Esteban Guerrieri has increased his lead in the championship to 21 points over teammate Tristan Vautier when the two made contact on the first lap of the race. Guerrieri was able to recover with a nose and tire change, but Vautier was not as lucky.

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Colombian Gustavo Yacaman went on to win the race, with countryman Sebastian Saavedra and Brazil’s Victor Carbone also on the podium. Saavedra, who had quietly fallen back in the championship race after a strong start to the season, made up some ground and now sits 11 points behind Vautier, with Yacaman 15 points out of third position going into the 13-turn, 2.224-mile Edmonton circuit.

“It’s a very brake-dependent track,” Webb said of the track. “Good clean braking and overtaking moves in the three hairpins will certainly aid for a win. Avoiding the crashes on Lap 1 will normally see you in a good position to pick people off further in the race should you need to if you’re not on pole. New front tire compounds recently brought in by Firestone will help make tire wear more of a factor and make for exciting racing as well.”

This is the ninth event on the 2012 Firestone Indy Lights schedule, with three events remaining at Trois Rivieres, Baltimore and Auto Club Speedway. The Edmonton 100 will be broadcast on July 22 at 12:30 p.m. (ET), immediately preceding the IZOD IndyCar Series race on NBC Sports Network.