Besides the Indy 500, next year checks all the boxes for a prime CCWS schedule...

Random international/fly-away race ✅️

Street race in a stadium parking lot ✅️

A few short ovals in the name of "diversity" ✅️

No races in the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic ✅️

Portland ✅️

Addition or cancelation to the already announced schedule 🔜

Maybe all those years of trying and failing to secure a race outside North America weren't entirely IndyCar's fault after all!

Maybe...

I have added Indy Cars to my Oval game(yes ai has been used to help make a game I've always wanted to create), its totally free to play with ranked matchmaking, private lobbies with friends, career mode and more!

Play now - https://playstockcar.com/

I have a buddy who is on the board of the NJ motorsports park and he told me indycar reached out for discussing potential 2028 or 2029 race there. Mentioned they discussed even funding track improvements to make it possible.

Did anyone catch the Indycar drivers as sports events this week?? Pato was at the Cowboys game, Schumacher at the Jazz game, and JoNew at the Brewers-Rays World Series game tonight! I wonder if Fox is going to have drivers at other sporting events to put them into normal sports fan view in the offseason??