IRL To Open ’07 Season With Night Race At Homestead-Miami

The IRL season will open with a night race for the first time in ’07, with the March 24 Homestead-Miami Speedway event scheduled for primetime on ESPN2. The event is the first of five in primetime on the 17-race schedule, which returns to all ’06 venues and adds new events at Iowa Speedway, the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course and the Raceway at Belle Isle near Detroit. All races will air nationally, with seven on ABC and five each on ESPN and ESPN2 (IRL).

DATE	TRACK	NETWORK
March 24	Homestead-Miami Speedway	ESPN2^
April 1	Streets of St. Petersburg	ESPN
April 21	Twin Ring Motegi	ESPN
April 29	Kansas Speedway	ESPN2
May 27	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	ABC
June 3	The Milwaukee Mile	ABC
June 9	Texas Motor Speedway	ESPN2^
June 24	Iowa Speedway	ABC
June 30	Richmond Int'l Raceway	ESPN^
July 8	Watkins Glen Int'l	ABC
July 14	Nashville Superspeedway	ESPN^
July 22	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	ABC
August 5	Michigan Int'l Speedway	ESPN2
August 11	Kentucky Speedway	ESPN2^
August 26	Infineon Raceway	ESPN
September 2	The Raceway at Belle Isle	ABC
September 9	Chicagoland Speedway	ABC

^ = Primetime races