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INDIANAPOLIS - The IRL will be making three more stops
in 2007. The IRL on Wednesday released the complete 17-race schedule for
the 2007 season, which features 12 ovals, three permanent road
courses and two temporary street circuits. Along with returning to all 14 of the venues it visited in 2006,
the open-wheel series will run new events at Iowa Speedway,
Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, and the Raceway at Belle Isle near
Detroit. "The 2007 schedule is clearly the most diverse schedule in
IndyCar Series history and one of the most diverse in
motorsports today," IRL president Brian Barnhart said. "The
schedule offers night races, short ovals, superspeedways, street
courses and road courses with each track offering its unique
personality that should produce exciting racing." For the sixth consecutive year, Homestead-Miami Speedway will
host the season opener, which will be run as a night race for
the first time. The schedule also includes night races at Texas
Motor Speedway, Richmond International Raceway, Nashville
Superspeedway and Kentucky Speedway. The 91st Indianapolis 500 is slated for May 27, while
Chicagoland Speedway will host its second consecutive season
finale on September 9. "We are committed to continuing the compacted schedule we
introduced in 2006 with 17 races in a 25-week period, including
the Month of May at Indianapolis and the two-week lead time for
the event at Twin Ring Motegi," Barnhart said. "In completing
the schedule, we achieved our two primary goals of returning to
all of the venues that were on our 2006 calendar while adding
three events."
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