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The Cup Series drivers? They might need more convincing about the change to the road course.

Projecting the future of the GMR Grand Prix, Ind圜ar-NASCAR doubleheader.

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Now, they can enjoy the rest of their summer and plan on coming back for another race later in the year.” “When it was around July 4, we only would have had about five weeks to get the track prepared and customers ready to make another commitment to IMS. “This also gives us some distance between the Indy 500 and the next big race at IMS,” he said. There had been excitement and additional programming around having another race weekend centered on a holiday at IMS this year before the pandemic.īoles said, though, he hopes this latest change can bring the Brickyard weekend to some date equity for the next several years, as NASCAR completes a massive overhaul of its schedule this week. In 2018-19, it was held the second weekend of September and clashed with Week 1 of the NFL season and college football. It brings the event back near its original spot on the NASCAR calendar it was held the first week of August until 2007, when it moved into the end of July for more than a decade. And then they had time to think things over a bit more, and that led us to today.”

"I kinda knew leaving that weekend that this year was probably the direction things were going to go.

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“(The Xfinity race) did so well, and just the craziness of the last 10 laps and having an Indiana driver (Chase Briscoe) win was just really exciting," Boles said. Privately though, Boles said Wednesday, the winds were already blowing this direction.

Publicly, this was about the initial year of an experiment.

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In January, Penske, Boles and NASCAR official Ben Kennedy mentioned the idea of Xfinity running a different configuration had been tossed around for several years, though it was the new track owner’s ingenuity that helped push the idea across the finish line.Īnd at the time, Kennedy and Penske asserted the focus was just on that year’s race and how to make the Xfinity race as good as possible. It was followed by Ind圜ar’s GMR Grand Prix during the massive weekend at the track that was held without fans due to the pandemic. The news comes months after the first NASCAR race held on the road course: the Xfinity Series on July 4. It freshens up the weekend with something brand new, and our fans normally enjoy that." There will be some customers that are oval fans, and frankly, the racing the last few years on the oval in Cup has been marginally better but this just adds a new twist. “At the end of the day, we are an oval track, and the Indy 500 sets the tone for what we’ve been about, but for the last 20 years, we’ve had an FIA Grade 1 road course. “I came in 10 years ago with a different idea of how they communicated, but they’ve been an unbelievable partner in trying to make this weekend better. “Most everything we’ve done around the NASCAR weekend, we’ve done in collaboration with (the sanctioning body),” Boles told IndyStar Wednesday.