Rumored 2009 IC Schedule

[Osiris333]

According to AR1:

1. St. Petersburg 1.78 Mile Street[/*:m:2ioxi3kl]
2. Long Beach 1.97 Mile Street[/*:m:2ioxi3kl]
3. Motegi, Japan Sat 1.549 Oval[/*:m:2ioxi3kl]
4. Queensland, Au 2.795 Mi Street[/*:m:2ioxi3kl]
5. Kansas City 1.5 M Oval[/*:m:2ioxi3kl]
6. Indianapolis, IN 2.5 mile Oval[/*:m:2ioxi3kl]
7. West Allis, WI 1.032 Mile Oval[/*:m:2ioxi3kl]
8. Ft Worth, TX (Sat. Nite)[/*:m:2ioxi3kl]
9. Newton, IA 0.875 Mile Oval[/*:m:2ioxi3kl]
10. Richmond, VA (Sat. Night)[/*:m:2ioxi3kl]
11. Watkins Glen 3.37 Mile RC[/*:m:2ioxi3kl]
12. Lexington, OH 2.258 Mile RC[/*:m:2ioxi3kl]
13. Toronto, CN 1.721 Mile Street[/*:m:2ioxi3kl]
14. Edmonton CN 1.96 Mi Airport[/*:m:2ioxi3kl]
15. Sparta, KY (Sat Nite) 1.5 Mile Oval[/*:m:2ioxi3kl]
16. Sonoma, CA RC[/*:m:2ioxi3kl]
17. Detroit, MI 2.096 Mi. RC[/*:m:2ioxi3kl]
18. Joliet, Ill. 1.5 Mile Oval[/*:m:2ioxi3kl]
19. TBA[/*:m:2ioxi3kl]

I don't have a problem with it, really. It's a decent transitional schedule. I love that Australia is back in the spring where it belongs. I'd dump Iowa and Richmond for Road America and NH, and finish in Vegas myself. I'd also dump Sonoma for Fontana if I could.

I'd also change the rules to make new smaller front and rear wings to lower the downforce and equalize the competition, put the Handford device on the cars for Kentucky, Motegi, Texas and Chicago, to take the droning boredom out of the 1.5 mi tracks, and hire Panoz to build a variant of the DP-01 for 2010. As long as we're stuck with the CW's for '09 we may as well make the best of it though by cutting some of the downforce to shake up the grid.

Then, put Paul Tracy in a competitive car for '09, 010, and 011, buy AJ Almendinger's and Scott Speed's contracts from Red Bull and I'd be one happy camper.

Too bad I'm not Tony George.

[drewdawg727]

No, more like thank GOD you're not Tony George, cus he's the most unreasonable and sick being on this Earth.

But back to the topic at hand...I want to see Cleveland and Portland back, IMHO. Those are the roots of CART Racing, and we need to see those back on the schedule.

[Dr. Krogshöj]

Here we go again. MarkC is onto things in the ICS now, starts putting things together.

[NickFalzone]

7 road or street out of 19 races is not bad. #19 (if it happens) will hopefully be Vegas. Although Chicago is a great track I'd prefer to see Vegas as the closer.

[fugariracing]

I think it's still in Chicago's contract for 09 to be the finale, but not sure of that. It depends on whether the SMI deal of five races is added or not (NHIS and LVMS).

[nigelred5]

TG, Repeat after me: ROAD AMERICA!

[anthonyvop]

8 races in the Midwest and 1 in the south!

Yep. The brand marketers would love that schedule.

[Rex Monaco]

8 races in the Midwest and 1 in the south!

Yep. The brand marketers would love that schedule.

Kentucky, Virginia and Texas are part of the South. So with Florida, that makes 4.

[icehammer97]

Not really much of a different schedule then this year which was really just the IRL schedule with some CC races added last second. The schedule needs to get rid of tracks like Iowa and Richmond that are really too small for Indy Cars espically with this many on the track. Replace them with any two 1 mile tracks you want as long as they have two lines for passing. I wish Detroit could be off the schedule since it is always a parade but Penske has so much money in it he won't allow it. I would get rid of Edmonton and Sonoma and replace them with Cleveland (one airport track for a better one) and Road America.

I would also like to see a 20 race schedule with 10 ovals and 10 Road/Street courses and at least 5 or 6 of the CC tracks. Hopefully the reason alot of the IRL races are still on the sechedule for next year is that their contracts are not up and the IRL can phase them out and bring in new races as those contracts come up.

[gofastandwynn]

According to AR1:

1. St. Petersburg 1.78 Mile Street[/*:m:2mp961w5]
2. Long Beach 1.97 Mile Street[/*:m:2mp961w5]
3. Motegi, Japan Sat 1.549 Oval[/*:m:2mp961w5]
4. Queensland, Au 2.795 Mi Street[/*:m:2mp961w5]
5. Kansas City 1.5 M Oval[/*:m:2mp961w5]
6. Indianapolis, IN 2.5 mile Oval[/*:m:2mp961w5]
7. West Allis, WI 1.032 Mile Oval[/*:m:2mp961w5]
8. Ft Worth, TX (Sat. Nite)[/*:m:2mp961w5]
9. Newton, IA 0.875 Mile Oval[/*:m:2mp961w5]
10. Richmond, VA (Sat. Night)[/*:m:2mp961w5]
11. Watkins Glen 3.37 Mile RC[/*:m:2mp961w5]
12. Lexington, OH 2.258 Mile RC[/*:m:2mp961w5]
13. Toronto, CN 1.721 Mile Street[/*:m:2mp961w5]
14. Edmonton CN 1.96 Mi Airport[/*:m:2mp961w5]
15. Sparta, KY (Sat Nite) 1.5 Mile Oval[/*:m:2mp961w5]
16. Sonoma, CA RC[/*:m:2mp961w5]
17. Detroit, MI 2.096 Mi. RC[/*:m:2mp961w5]
18. Joliet, Ill. 1.5 Mile Oval[/*:m:2mp961w5]
19. TBA[/*:m:2mp961w5]

I don't have a problem with it, really. It's a decent transitional schedule. I love that Australia is back in the spring where it belongs. I'd dump Iowa and Richmond for Road America and NH, and finish in Vegas myself. I'd also dump Sonoma for Fontana if I could.

I'd also change the rules to make new smaller front and rear wings to lower the downforce and equalize the competition, put the Handford device on the cars for Kentucky, Motegi, Texas and Chicago, to take the droning boredom out of the 1.5 mi tracks, and hire Panoz to build a variant of the DP-01 for 2010. As long as we're stuck with the CW's for '09 we may as well make the best of it though by cutting some of the downforce to shake up the grid.

Then, put Paul Tracy in a competitive car for '09, 010, and 011, buy AJ Almendinger's and Scott Speed's contracts from Red Bull and I'd be one happy camper.

Too bad I'm not Tony George.

I would like to see Cleveland added, and don't really see the need to drop Homestead. It is a warm weather date, and TG said he wants to lengthen the time frame of the schedule.