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Although its 2024 TV ratings were not good, IndyCar did exceptionally well for its Memorial Day Crown Jewel event. The Indy 500 TV ratings were up significantly and trounced the once more popular NASCAR prime-time offering of the Coca-Cola 600. As for the rest of the year it wasn’t anything to write home about. But there is legitimate hope that the 2025 season can mark the start of a turnaround for the IndyCar series. That is because FOX, known for its long and outstanding coverage of NASCAR, is taking over as the broadcast network for the NTT IndyCar Series in 2025.
Once upon a time, IndyCar style open wheel racing was the king of motorsports in the United States. In those days, NASCAR was considered a regional backwoods sport of moonshiners. The open-wheel circuit had the crown jewel of the Indianapolis 500, the biggest race of its time and arguably still the self-described “Biggest Spectacle in Racing.” IndyCar dominated the United States until 1996 when some disgruntled teams moved to form a new circuit with CART. To this day, open-wheel racing has never recovered.
Despite the end of this open-wheel racing civil war in 2008, a full recovery has never come close to developing. IndyCar remains confused about what it wants to be, alternating between road and Grand Prix races with some traditional oval tracks.
Although the IndyCar Series is second fiddle to NASCAR in terms of motor racing in America, it is a niche sport with some diehard fans. They will be happy to have events with fans in the stands again, especially the famous Indianapolis 500. The Indy 500 is the one thing that open-wheel racing can truly brag about. Fans who don’t watch racing or know of any drivers watch and bet on the Indy 500.
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2025 IndyCar Series Schedule
| DATE |
VENUE |
RACE |
| Mar 2 |
Streets of St. Petersburg |
Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg |
| Mar 23 |
The Thermal Club |
The Thermal Club $1 Million Challenge |
| Apr 13 |
Streets of Long Beach |
Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach |
| May 4 |
Barber Motorsports Park |
Children's of Alabama Indy Grand Prix |
| May 10 |
Indianapolis Motor Speedway (Road Course) |
Sonsio Grand Prix |
| May 25 |
Indianapolis Motor Speedway (Oval) |
109th Running of the Indianapolis 500 |
| Jun 1 |
Streets of Detroit |
Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix |
| Jun 15 |
World Wide Technology Raceway |
Bommarito Automotive Group 500 |
| Jun 22 |
Road America |
XPEL Grand Prix |
| Jul 6 |
Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course |
Honda Indy 200 |
| Jul 12 |
Iowa Speedway |
Hy-Vee INDYCAR Race 1 |
| Jul 13 |
Iowa Speedway |
Hy-Vee INDYCAR Race 2 |
| Jul 20 |
Streets of Toronto |
Ontaria Honda Dealers Indy Toronto |
| Jul 27 |
WeatherTech Raceway |
IndyCar Grand Prix of Monterey |
| Aug 10 |
Portland International Raceway |
Bitnile.com Grand Prix of Portland |
| Aug 24 |
Milwaukee Mile |
Milwaukee Mile |
| Aug 31 |
Nashville Superspeedway |
Big Machine Music City Grand Prix |
The 2024 IndyCar season champion was Álex Palou of Chip Ganassi Racing, thanks to an early-season incident when series owner Roger Penske's team was caught making illegal use of extra horsepower.
Caught and penalized for the infraction at the season opener, where Penske's Josef Newgarden won with ease and McLaughlin placed second, the series fined Penske and stripped Newgarden and McLaughlin of their points for the first race. Credited with fourth after the Penske drivers were deleted from the results, Palou's path toward his third IndyCar championship in four years was eased.
Citing another Penske gaffe at the midseason -- when Penske's Will Power took out Scott McLaughlin, and once more at the penultimate race when electrical gremlins struck Palou and Power was ready to capitalize on the misfortune before throwing it away with a solo spin -- the Spaniard was the recipient of championship help from his archrivals on multiple occasions.
Conor Daly went into the year with a single race on his calendar. The IndyCar veteran was meant to do only the Indianapolis 500 with Dreyer & Reinbold with Cusick Motorsports. Still, in a season of constant driver changes, the son of former Formula 1 and IndyCar racer Derek Daly was drafted into Dale Coyne Racing and Juncos Hollinger Racing to fill desperate needs.
He was one of more than 20 drivers who were hired for part-time positions or fired from their full-time roles before the final race.
Andretti Global's Kyle Kirkwood, a double race winner in 2023 and seventh-place finisher in the latest championship, is fond of the resurgence in short- and medium-size oval tracks, which featured the introduction of IndyCar's new hybrid engines.
Kirkwood's Andretti teammate, 2022 Indy 500 winner Marcus Ericsson, heads into his seventh year as an IndyCar driver filled with encouragement for all the series has coming in the future, including a new broadcast partnership with Fox that will place every race on network TV -- a change from decades of lower ratings due to blending network and cable broadcasts -- and a first-time race due in 2026 that will run around the Dallas Cowboys and Texas Rangers' stadiums in Arlington, Texas.
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