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IndyCar's '16 Season To Start Earlier, End Later Than Previous Couple Years

IndyCar this week will release its '16 schedule, and it will be "more than a month longer than the past two seasons," according to Curt Cavin of the INDIANAPOLIS STAR. Next season "will start and end in familiar places -- opening in St. Petersburg, Fla., concluding at Sonoma Raceway in northern California -- but the gap between those events will be 36 days longer, a response to criticism that IndyCar wasn’t covering enough of the calendar." The St. Pete race will move "forward two weeks and the Sonoma race back three weeks." There will be a "single race in March, three in April, two in May, four in June, three in July, one in August and two in September." The circuit's trip to Pocono Raceway will be the lone race in August, but the "combination of Mid-Ohio, Pocono and Boston gives IndyCar three events in a 50-day stretch." A pair of "popular venues" -- Phoenix Int'l Raceway and Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wis. -- are set to return, while three tracks -- Auto Club Speedway, the Milwaukee Mile and NOLA Motorsports Park -- will not. A Boston street race is on the schedule, thought local organizers "are trying to derail resistance from residents in the Seaport District" regarding the event. There also are "concerns for the cost of preparing the circuit" (INDIANAPOLIS STAR, 10/26).

REPORTED '16 VERIZON INDYCAR SCHEDULE
VENUE
DATE
St. Petersburg (Street Circuit)
March 13
Phoenix Int'l Raceway (Oval Track)
April 2
Long Beach (Street Circuit)
April 17
Barber Motorsports Park (Road Course)
April 24
Indianapolis Motor Speedway (Road Course)
May 14
Indianapolis Motor Speedway (Oval Track)
May 29
Detroit (Street Circuit)
June 4
Detroit (Street Circuit)
June 5
Texas Motor Speedway (Oval Track)
June 11
Road America (Road Course)
June 26
Iowa Speedway (Oval Track)
July 9
Toronto (Street Circuit)
July 17
Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course (Road Course)
July 31
Pocono Raceway (Oval Track)
August 21
Boston (Street Circuit)
September 4
Sonoma Raceway (Road Course)
September 18

NEXT MAN WALKER: Hulman & Co. CEO Mark Miles said that former IndyCar President of Competition Derrick Walker's successor "is ready to been identified and might be revealed after next week's IndyCar schedule is published." Miles when asked if Walker's replacement would be someone familiar to those in the IndyCar paddock said, "I don't want to play a guessing game, but this person isn't a total stranger." Sources said that the person's identity "has been kept clear of the rumor mill, and even from high-ranking series officials" (RACER.com, 10/23).

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