The NTT IndyCar Sequence is headed to Arlington, Texas, in 2026 for a road race that can hearth across the Dallas Cowboy’s Nationwide Soccer League stadium and the Texas Rangers’ Main League Baseball stadium.
Set for March, the identical month the place IndyCar historically launches its season at St. Petersburg in Florida, the two.73-mile observe “will weave by means of Arlington’s core sports activities and leisure district, which options an all-star line-up of occasions and venues and yearly sells greater than 1.6 million tickets to spectators close to and much,” in line with IndyCar.
Ideas of a Dallas-area road race bubbled up in the course of the 2010s with a doable run across the Rangers’ stadium as the primary idea to be floated, and with a brand new engagement from Cowboys’ proprietor Jerry Jones, Arlington mayor Jim Ross, and REV Leisure, a bigger spectacle has been created.
“We’re thrilled to affix forces with the Texas Rangers, Penske Leisure, and the Metropolis of Arlington to deliver Grand Prix racing to the streets of the Arlington Leisure District,” Jones mentioned. “The collaboration between our organizations will make the IndyCar Grand Prix of Arlington particular, offering a novel NTT IndyCar Sequence race expertise for followers attending, whereas additionally making a showcase with our pals at FOX and people watching all over the world. An occasion of this magnitude is one other nice reflection of what we imagined over 15 years in the past that AT&T Stadium could possibly be part of.”
Rangers COO Neil Liebman added, “As we speak is a historic day for the Texas Rangers and REV Leisure. We’re proud to be on the forefront of the IndyCar Grand Prix of Arlington alongside such esteemed organizations in Penske Leisure and the Dallas Cowboys. This occasion will set a brand new commonplace for the Arlington Leisure District, and we sit up for welcoming followers from all over the world to expertise what Arlington has to supply.”
IndyCar Sequence proprietor Roger Penske is assured the GP of Arlington will likely be a serious success.
“By means of a really outstanding and modern partnership, we’re going to construct racing’s subsequent world spectacle,” he mentioned. “Everybody concerned is totally dedicated to delivering an unimaginable and distinctive occasion weekend for the town of Arlington, anchored by the celebs of the NTT IndyCar Sequence. We’re grateful to the Cowboys, Rangers and REV Leisure for coming into into this partnership with us, and, after all, to Arlington’s management staff for his or her pleasure and ongoing help.”
Throughout its varied names and possession teams, IndyCar has a long-held presence in Texas relationship again to the Nineteen Seventies, with a mixture of oval, highway course and road races dotted all through its historical past. Its most up-to-date road race additionally made use of sports activities stadiums because the backdrop for the Houston Grand Prix which ran by means of 2014, and its final go to to the state got here in 2023 at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Price.
