IndyCar has unveiled the primary portion of its 2027 schedule. On August 5, Phoenix Raceway introduced that IndyCar would return for a second straight 12 months together with the NASCAR Cup Sequence, which verified that IndyCar would start 2027 with the identical three races as 2026. Now, the collection has confirmed that the season will begin with the identical eight races as 2026.
This is how the beginning of the 2027 season will look, with every race being broadcast on Fox.
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Sunday, March 7: St. Petersburg, Florida (road)
Saturday, March 13: Phoenix Raceway (oval)
Sunday, March 21: Arlington, Texas (road)
Sunday, April 4: Barber Motorsports Park (street)
Sunday, April 18: Lengthy Seaside (road)
Saturday, Might 15: Indianapolis Motor Speedway street course (street)
Sunday, Might 30: Indianapolis 500 (oval)
Sunday, June 6: Detroit (road)
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Indianapolis 500 2026: Race motion from begin to end at Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Drivers take the inexperienced flag Sunday, Might 24, 2026, through the a hundred and tenth operating of the Indianapolis 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
(Tyler Ward/For IndyStar)
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Indianapolis 500 2026: Race motion from begin to end at Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Drivers take the inexperienced flag Sunday, Might 24, 2026, through the a hundred and tenth operating of the Indianapolis 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
(Tyler Ward/For IndyStar)
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Indianapolis 500 2026: Race motion from begin to end at Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Brendan Fraser waves the inexperienced flag Sunday, Might 24, 2026, through the a hundred and tenth operating of the Indianapolis 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
(Michael Johnson/For IndyStar)
As the beginning of the season has been pushed again per week, IndyCar’s seventeenth race at Barber Motorsports Park will likely be in April once more. IndyCar wished to return to Phoenix Raceway alongside NASCAR, which owns the monitor, whereas additionally wanting three straight race weekends to start the season once more. Pushing again the beginning of the season by per week allowed that to occur. With Memorial Day being per week later, each races at IMS are additionally per week later, inflicting the Detroit Grand Prix to be per week later.
“It has been one other outstanding 12 months of development by means of our highly effective partnership with Fox Sports activities, and we sit up for specializing in even better alternatives by means of the 2027 NTT IndyCar Sequence schedule,” Penske Leisure CEO and president Mark Miles stated in a information launch. “We’re happy to substantiate Part Considered one of subsequent 12 months’s championship alongside one other accelerated begin with races in St. Petersburg, Phoenix and Arlington. 2026 has been proof of idea that our sport is fueled by an increasing presence throughout marquee occasions and locations, and we sit up for carrying that momentum into 2027.”
Stated IndyCar president Doug Boles: “The begin to this 12 months’s 2026 season was action-packed, and it is gratifying to know the stage is ready for a return to that frantic tempo in 2027. St. Pete has develop into a great host to start our season, and the response to the collection’ return to historic Phoenix Raceway made our partnership with NASCAR and Fox all of the extra particular. To complete that stretch with a marquee occasion on the Streets of Arlington will likely be a becoming solution to lead into one other heated season-long battle for the NTT IndyCar Sequence championship.”
There are a number of races and dates to be decided for the again half of the schedule. It is unclear if IndyCar will select to race World Vast Expertise Raceway per week after Detroit, because it did this 12 months to finish a grueling stretch, or if the race will fall later in the summertime. The collection should additionally determine if its race at Nashville Superspeedway will return because the season finale after being scheduled for July 19 (and raced on July 20 after a rain postponement) this 12 months.
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After the groundbreaking Freedom 250 Grand Prix on the streets of Washington, D.C., on Aug. 23, IndyCar must determine if it returns to the nation’s capital. IndyCar’s brass has repeatedly referred to as it a one-time occasion, however D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has lobbied for it to develop into an annual race.
With a lot to be finalized concerning the second half of the 2027 season, IndyCar has solidified an early-season schedule that is not too totally different from the beginning of 2026.
