IMSA Announces Return to Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 2023

Indianapolis Motor Speedway is 1 of the most storied venues in not just racing, but in all of American sports activities. For around 80 a long time, the 2.5-mile speedway entirely hosted 1 party for every yr, the Indianapolis 500. This custom finished in 1994 with NASCAR traveling to the observe for the inaugural Brickyard 400, followed by Formula One in 2000 for the United States Grand Prix. IMSA has declared these days that its flagship sequence, the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, will be returning to the Brickyard following year.

IMSA President John Doonan reported in a assertion:

“There has been mutual interest and several discussions concerning IMSA and IMS management for quite some time to provide our brand of top quality endurance sports activities auto racing back again to the Speedway and our collective fans. As we launch an enjoyable new period in 2023 and introduce GTP as our major group of prototypes alongside several of our other profitable classes and sanctioned collection, the timing is ideal for a total weekend of IMSA action in Indianapolis and on NBC up coming fall.”

The IMSA Battle on the Bricks will be a two-hour and forty-moment race on the speedway’s 14-switch, 2.439-mile highway class on September 17th, 2023, which will provide as the penultimate celebration of the 2023 IMSA period. The 3-day celebration will also function the IMSA Michelin Pilot Problem assist series in a four-hour race on Saturday that will conclude in darkness. The sports automobile racing sanctioning physique has also verified that the 2024 and 2025 races at the Brickyard will be more time occasions ending at night, along with the Rolex 24 at Daytona and other marquee races as an Stamina Cup round.

IMSA had previous visited the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 2014 for the Brickyard Grand Prix. On the other hand, the weekend’s spectators in 2023 will also be made available the distinctive possibility to camp in the Indianapolis Motor Speedway infield. The famed location doesn’t make it possible for race attendees to camp in the infield in the course of any other race weekend at the speedway.