2015 IndyCar Schedule

I am like you guys. I would sure like to see the season last longer. Formula One keeps their season going longer by lengthening the time between the races in the fall. It would be nice if Indycar would last into October.

And like Robin Miller said, they need a big race as the last race. Watching the finale race with a bunch of empty seats looks pretty bad, in my opinion. I'd like to go to more races. Several of them are within a half day's ride for me. I love the atmosphere that Indycar has. The pits, the cars, being able to see the drivers and getting autographs. It is really thrill for me.

So, we'll just have to see what happens when the schedule comes out.

Hopefully they will get things straightened out in the near future and give the race fans more of what they want.
 
My ideal schedule would be about 25 races long. I would also want a mix of 70% ovals, 30% road/street courses.
 
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DanicaFan said:
My ideal schedule would be about 25 races long. I would also want a mix of 70% ovals, 30% road/street courses.
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25 races would be great. They could schedule the fall races farther south to get the warmer weather. This would extend the season.

I just wonder if the reason they schedule so many road races is because a lot of the available oval tracks are smaller and they don't like to race on them because of the high speeds. I'm just guessing, of course. I have never really heard how the drivers feel about it. I know Will Power would probably say that he likes the road races more, because he does so well on them. Maybe some day they will show a poll of how more of the drivers feel and what % they want to race on.
 
Well, here is the official 2015 IndyCar Series schedule. I am greatly disappointed..

3/8 Brazil (NBCSN)
3/29 St. Petersburg (ABC)
4/12 New Orleans (NBCSN)
4/19 Long Beach (NBCSN)
4/26 Barber (NBCSN)
5/9 GP of Indianapolis (Saturday, ABC)
5/16-17 Indianapolis 500 Qualifying (ABC)
5/24 Indianapolis 500 (ABC)
5/30-31 Detroit (Doubleheader, both ABC)
6/6 Texas (Saturday night, NBCSN)
6/14 Toronto (NBCSN)
6/27 Fontana (Saturday, NBCSN)
7/12 Milwaukee (NBCSN)
7/18 Iowa (Saturday night, NBCSN)
8/2 Mid-Ohio (NBCSN)
8/23 Pocono (NBCSN)
8/30 Sonoma (NBCSN)
 
I like that they add Indy qualifying to make the schedule look longer.
 
Why isn't Toronto a doubleheader? Too many road courses, not enough street courses or ovals. This schedule sucks.

Alabama, Mid-Ohio and Sonoma are consistently the worst races of the year. And the season concludes at Sonoma. After starting in Brazil. Just, awful.
 
The Sprint Cup Pennsylvania 400 at Pocono and the IndyCar race at Mid-Ohio on August 2nd are both scheduled to be on NBCSN.
 
I'm glad they managed to keep Toronto, Fontana, Pocono, and Texas on the schedule considering all the doubts surrounding those events.

I wasn't much of a fan of Houston until this year but NOLA and Brasilia could surprise. Brasilia should at least get a very solid crowd.
 
"We've said for some time that I think there's the potential for maybe four international races in the period after the [NFL] Super Bowl in early February into as late as the middle of March," he said. "Then once we get to that point, this schedule moves the series into North America and stays there until the finale and the championship is decided.

"We're very pleased that Brasilia is the first race to join us in this strategy at the beginning of March. I can tell you while Brasilia is alone at this point for 2015, there are ongoing, very active conversations that are serious with three other countries.

"We remain bullish and more confident than ever in our ability to expand that part of the series in February."

COMPACT SCHEDULE WILL EASE

Miles also said that the extraordinarily compressed nature of the 2014 schedule will be relaxed over the coming seasons. The 2015 schedule is a small reflection of that, with the championship set to be contested over 25 calendar weeks next year as opposed to 22 weeks in 2014.

The series plans to achieve part of that through opening the season with the earlier international events, and from 2016 onward it intends to finish it on the Labor Day weekend, which falls on the first weekend of September.

"Our intention over time is not just to start earlier, but it is to have the culmination, the finale of the championship, in the States on Labor Day weekend," Miles said. "This calendar doesn't do that. It concludes with Sonoma the week prior. But we intend to own the Labor Day weekend.

"There are, again, very active discussions with possible new cities that would be joining the series that particularly want to be on the Labor Day weekend. They think it will be perfect for them.

"Our options as they are developing are in major markets, they're in great timezones from the point of view of the broadcast of the finale.

"We're very, very bullish about being back with the finale in a great market on Labor Day weekend for 2016."

http://www.racer.com/indycar/item/110385-indycar-s-international-plan-still-on
 
Wish Toronto was a double-header, wish Detroit wasn't but understand why it is. I won't knock Brasilia and NoLa until I see the on-track product. Otherwise, seems like an awful lot of talk about changes for not a whole lot of changes.

Has to be the first time in 10 years or more that an American Open-Wheel series has ended the year on a US road course, right? Even the last years of CART closed in Mexico City.

EDIT: Just looked it up. 1996, Laguna Seca: http://racing-reference.info/raceyear/1996/R
 
I don't like street courses because they are mostly unpassable concrete canyons (IMSA had a good street course in Miami a long time go). I like ovals and road courses. But the cars have out grown some of the road courses. The Circuit of the Americas has become one of my favorite tracks.
 
Zerkfitting said:
I don't like street courses because they are mostly unpassable concrete canyons (IMSA had a good street course in Miami a long time go). I like ovals and road courses. But the cars have out grown some of the road courses. The Circuit of the Americas has become one of my favorite tracks.
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The street courses are the short tracks of Open Wheel.
 
Zerkfitting said:
I don't like street courses because they are mostly unpassable concrete canyons (IMSA had a good street course in Miami a long time go). I like ovals and road courses. But the cars have out grown some of the road courses. The Circuit of the Americas has become one of my favorite tracks.
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They had a couple of pretty good street course races last year I thought, but they can go straight to stupid pretty quickly. I like the schedule, I think Indycars look like they belong on road courses and a bit out of place on ovals. The constant droning sound on ovals puts me to sleep. Like to hear those little lunch box sized motors going thru the gears.
 
The constant droning sound on ovals puts me to sleep. Like to hear those little lunch box sized motors going thru the gears.
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The sound going through the gears is the best. I watched Gran Prix tonight and the sound in that movie is the best.
 
I hated that Baltimore lost the race so soon after picking it up. I always liked that race and I understand that most of the drivers did too.

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/20...rant-ohio-state-navy-football-game-grand-prix

>>Event organizer Race On LLC's top official called any reprise in later years "an uphill battle into the wind."
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Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said that "there are no conversations going on about" a 2016 Grand Prix.

"Everyone wanted the race to continue," said JP Grant, whose Race On LLC revived the event in 2012 after its original organizers became mired in financial difficulties. "The sheer number of calendar obligations that had to be reconciled could not be overcome. … The calendar conspired against us."

Holding the event on Labor Day weekend for its fourth and fifth consecutive years in 2014 and 2015 was already ruled out because of an Ohio State-Navy football game previously scheduled at M&T Bank Stadium next year and an American Legion convention the year after. City leaders, tourism officials and Race On then attempted to broker an alternative that meshed with the schedules for city conventions, the Orioles and Ravens, and IndyCar and Le Mans racing, but none could be found, they said.<<
 
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