Texas 600 and Road America
The 600km oval race at Texas – just one week after the Dual in Detroit – then a week off followed by the Grand Prix at Elkhart Lake’s Road America.
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The Dual in Detroit
The Dual In Detroit: two Grands Prix in one weekend on the challenging and bumpy Belle Isle street course, just one week after the Indy 500. Find out how the points race changed during this difficult double.
With 4 races in June being too many for one post, I’ll look at the Texas oval and Elkhart Lake road course races in the next recap.
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The Month of May at Indianapolis
The famed “Month of May” at Indianapolis, the centrepiece of the Verizon IndyCar Series.
These days it constitutes two races, the Grand Prix on a version of the infield road course, followed by the Indy 500 and all that it entails, including a lot of practice.
A busy month with Long Beach, Barber and Phoenix.
There were 3 races in the month of April, starting with the iconic Long Beach Grand Prix, followed by the rolling hills of Barber Motorsports Park in Alabama, then just a week later the first oval of the year with a return to Phoenix. I’m not sure who designs the schedule but Florida-California-Alabama-Arizona must give the logistics people a real headache, surely this can be swapped around next year.
9th April: GP of Long Beach
23rd April: GP of Alabama
30th April: Phoenix GP
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I Watch Too Much Racing 