National Speed Sport News talks of IRL sched changes....

[SUBARUTEAM]

IndyCar needs to ADD ovals, drop roads, and add streets. It needs to be a street and oval series imo. The road courses are an abomination that simply need to be eliminated from the schedule.

if you could get PAYING customers to ovals, that may be true but..............

[SUBARUTEAM]

And it would still be cool to get the indy cars to the gold coast for a one off non championship race October 21 (that would also shorten up the off season)

[call_me_andrew]

I'm no expert on the domestic schedule so I will leave it to you guys to discuss that, however I find that the indycar off season is way too long. based on the above schedule, that is almost 6 months of no racing. Is there any reason why we can't start the season early/mid February in say Phoenix?

perhaps have phoenix and brazil before St. Pete, then slot Road America (or Homestead if its too cold at RA) into late March?

There is a reason, we call it NASCAR.

I think we could try starting in mid-January, but we'd have to be careful to not conflict with the NFL Playoffs.