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It won't be in the fall because of football, and due to the location, particularly the NFL.
If St. Petersburg has it in their contract to have the season-opener (except in cases of force majeur), then spring is already looking quite busy for IndyCar, unless you can get the boys in Florida to push their thing up to early March, or even late February.
As for future events, I'd like to see the Pit Straight widened a few feet, so it's also a full 3 lanes (40 ft). And they should be able to do more in the coming year, now that they know, about the surface on the bridge, at the transitions, and in the 2 big braking zones.
Maybe a slightly more open curb chicane down where Pit Lane rejoins would work better. Then again, even without walls anywhere near, the guys have repeatedly had trouble in the Festival Curves at Portland.
Surfers Paradise had enough room to allow for going behind the curbs to take evasive action at the chicanes there, but, well, we know they still had issues in 8 of the last 9 years CART/CCWS visited. Actually, i think they could have gone straight at Turn 1 (Turn 4) if they needed to, but nobody seemed to remember that.
And how much room was there at Cleveland to avoid messes at Turn 1 there?
The most comprehensive "solution" would be to address driving standards more directly.
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