IndyCar must stop hibernating
IndyCar produces some of the best racing on the planet, but its condensed schedule means it risks falling into oblivion during its five-month off-season. MARK GLENDENNING looks at the challenges facing the series
Right at this moment, your correspondent is sitting in an apartment in San Francisco watching the 49ers creep towards an unexpected second-consecutive win on the trot. Consequently, I'm apparently a very small part of the reason why we're all mired in a five-month IndyCar hiatus.
At least, that's the logic that helped dictate the ultra-compressed 2014 IndyCar season; a format that will be carried on in 2015. Next year's schedule has the same number of race weekends (15), slightly fewer actual races (16 instead of 18; a by-product of the number of double-headers dropping from three to one), and almost exactly the same span across the calendar. The entire season will be contested in just 154 days, one more than this year.
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