"IndyCar 2010: Brazil, Birmingham In; Richmond Out; Milwaukee in Limbo"
The IndyCar Series announced a 17 race schedule for 2010 at Kentucky Speedway, making it the first of the major American racing series to announce their schedule.
The season begins on March 14 in Brazil at a venue to be desigend by the league and announced at a later time. The US opening race will be in St. Petersburg, FL on March 28. The Barber Motorsports Park hosts its first IndyCar race on April 11.
The schedule does not show a race at the Milwaukee Mile after the Indianapolis 500 on May 30. The promotional turmoil at Milwaukee is the reason that the race was not able to be scheduled--IRL commercial President Terry Angstadt says the series would like to return to Milwaukee.
Richmond International Raceway, as you read here earlier, is not on the 2010 schedule.
The race here will be contested on Labor Day Weekend in 2010.
The season will end in Homestead, FL on October 2.
The league has been talking with Road America in Elkhart Lake, and has also considered a return to racing at Cleveland's Burke Lakefront Airport.
New Hampshire Motor Speedway was again considered and left off the schedule. Angstadt addressed the New Hampshire issue and says that two NASCAR Sprint Cup dates, and the prevailing weather conditions in New Hampshire makes "a very compressed window to try to make anything (races) work."
We'll tweet on Twitter if IndyCars do get on track this evening.
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