IndyCar announced Wednesday that the racing series will start its 2027 season March 7 on the streets of St. Petersburg. The series released the locations and dates for the first eight races of the upcoming season. This will be the 17th time IndyCar has started a season at St. Petersburg. Then IndyCar goes to Phoenix Raceway on March 13 and Arlington on March 21. This will be the second straight year the season starts with races on three consecutive weekends. The April races are at Barber Motorsports Park and Long Beach. Then it’s off to Indianapolis Motor Speedway in May for the road course race and the 111th Indianapolis 500.
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Alex Palou and Alexander Rossi were sold on the new IndyCar at first glance. Then they climbed inside the cockpit, took it around Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s 14-turn, 2.439-mile road course and were even more impressed. Palou, the four-time series champ, and Rossi, the 2016 Indianapolis 500 winner, became the first drivers to test the new IndyCar models this weekend, and both gave the car rave reviews.
Dennis Reinbold would come to the Indianapolis 500 each May and explain he desperately wanted to return to full-time IndyCar racing. The late team-owner's dream is now on the cusp of becoming reality. A little more than a month after Reinbold died at 65, his oldest son announced Wednesday that Dreyer & Reinbold Racing had purchased one of the series’ 25 charters from Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing. The transaction paves the way for DRR to run one full-time car next season for the first time since 2012. Series officials still must approve the move, but that appears to be a formality.
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