Edmonton gets the green light

[PSfan]

Green light for Edmonton Indy
Dan Barnes, edmontonjournal.com
Published: 4:27 pm
INDIANAPOLIS - The Edmonton Indy race is officially a go.

Northlands vice-president Mark Bamford signed a multi-year sanctioning agreement, believed to be three years, with Indy Racing League executive Terry Angstadt today prior to the start of the Indy 500.

The race organizers, Northlands and City of Edmonton will host a Wednesday news conference in the AgriCom to present details of the July 26 race.

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=0cc368fd-268a-4a2d-832e-89c312505d2d

So now we know :p :

[harvick#1]

:D

excellent, they have held some great races already at the fecility

[Madmonk]

Good on them, now how about Cleveland, Road America and Laguna Seca... PLEASE!

[champ car dave]

Unfortunately they cannot drop races this year to add Cleve,RA, and LS.
Edmonton got in because it was a scheduled on what was an open IRL weekend

[BenRoethig]

Nice to see the paperwork finally got through. I could see RA on the schedule next year, but Cleveland and Laguna Seca could be more troublesome. In Cleveland, they're try to redevelop Burke airport and Laguna is in the area more or less as Infineon.

[Dcon7681]

Greaat news !!! Finally ... have been holding off buying tickets until it became official.

I went last year and was quite impressed with the whole event and facilities. I have been to every Vancouver race, Portland and Cleveland, as well as two USGP's (2005 & 2006).

[Chamoo]

Good on them, now how about Cleveland, Road America and Laguna Seca... PLEASE!

You won't see Laguna because of the Mazda affiliation, but Cleveland and RA seem quite plausible. Expect Toronto, Cleveland, Edmonton, RA, Houston, and maybe Denver from the CC lineup, and obviously Long Beach.

[BenRoethig]

Long beach is affiliated with Toyota. However, it won't be on the schedule for other reasons.

[Chamoo]

Long beach is affiliated with Toyota. However, it won't be on the schedule for other reasons.

Long Beach is sponsored by the Toyota Dealerships of Southern California, not by Toyota itself.

[Spiderman]

Long beach is affiliated with Toyota. However, it won't be on the schedule for other reasons.

The most important reason ist perhaps the great tradition of Long Beach.

[ykiki]

Long beach is affiliated with Toyota. However, it won't be on the schedule for other reasons.

Won't be on the schedule? Didn't LB just sign an extension through 2013?

[BenRoethig]

Laguna won't be.

[Alfa Fan]

Yeah, you kinda phrased it poorly so most people are misreading it.