Indycar News & Rumors.

[Yannick]

From the outside looking in, I find it weird that the schedule ends by mid-September now at the latest, when it used to run until the end of October back when I got interested in the sport during the 90s. Maybe Football was not so prominent then? I find that hard to believe.

NASCAR still makes life hard for IndyCar, as the drop of TMS from the IndyCar schedule is showing. But NASCAR is back on the oval at Indianapolis next year. How long until they demand the Brickyard to be sprayed with PJ1, too? If it ever came to that, Indianapolis better not oblige to that and rather not have a Brickyard 400 than to do that.

The Texas and Northeast markets are missing from the 2024 schedule, and so is Arizona where back in the day, the local ostrich festival proved more popular than the F1 race in downtown Phoenix.

The best recent calendar is still the one from 2019 which has not been improved upon lately. If that had had Milwaukee and the Glen, it would probably have been perfect.

We will see where this is heading next year when the calendar for 2025 will be announced. Filling up the front end of the schedule will remain complicated due to the weather, unless it's Phoenix which is not a good idea at this point anymore.
Can COTA get another chance? The racing was really good there.
Will the new date in June work for Laguna?