The 1.5-mile superspeedway has performed host to North America’s premier open-wheel championship yearly since 1997, together with two occasions per 12 months from 1998-2004 that additionally featured season finales.
A go to in June was historically held for almost all of the tenure, together with when TMS was known as upon to assist jump-start the IndyCar season in 2020.
In 2021, the date shifted to a double-header in Might. Then, the goal moved 20 March in 2022 earlier than selecting April 2 earlier this season.
Texas Motor Speedway Government Vice President & Common Supervisor Mark Faber offered an announcement on not internet hosting an IndyCar Sequence race subsequent season.
“Regardless of the perfect efforts by each Texas Motor Speedway and IndyCar, we’ve been unable to achieve settlement on a date that works for each events for 2024,” Faber mentioned.
“We all know that is as disappointing to our open-wheel race followers as it’s to us, however we’ve an important working relationship with IndyCar and sit up for additional discussions concerning the future.”
The observe remains to be anticipated to host one points-paying NASCAR Cup race within the 2024 season, though the date has not been finalized.
There have been rumblings of NASCAR seeking to transfer its current September date again to April, which doubtlessly offered the problems in scheduling and was additional compounded with the Summer season Olympics pushing motorsports on an prolonged break from late July to mid-August subsequent 12 months.
For its half, TMS hosted two NASCAR rounds from 2005 to 2022, solely just lately returning to internet hosting a single occasion for the inventory automobile collection this 12 months. It has hosted a NASCAR occasion yearly since 1997.
Scott Dixon, Chip Ganassi Racing Honda Josef Newgarden, Group Penske Chevrolet
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Amongst among the points which have plagued the observe was, beneath the earlier structure, it battled weepers on a routine foundation and led to a repave, reconstruction and reconfiguration in 2017.
There was an expansive French drainage system added on the entrance stretch and backstretch and a 4-degree discount of banking in Turns 1 and a couple of. There was 24-degree banking in all 4 turns.
Turns 3 and 4 remained unchanged, the banking of Turns 1 and a couple of was decreased to twenty levels with the racing floor width increasing from 60 toes to 80 toes in that part of the observe.
These changes got here after one of many closest races in IndyCar historical past, with Graham Rahal besting James Hinchcliffe by 0.0080 of a second within the 2016 race that began on June 11, postponed and at last ended on Aug. 27.
Scott Dixon’s mark of 5 wins is probably the most all-time for IndyCar at TMS.
