The NTT IndyCar Collection will probably be headed again to the Lone Star State in 2026.
After holding its final race at Texas Motor Speedway in 2023, RACER has discovered Penske Leisure will take its marquee open-wheel collection to compete on the outskirts of Dallas. The road race is about to be held round AT&T Stadium, house of the Nationwide Soccer League’s Dallas Cowboys, on the crew’s expansive campus positioned in Arlington, Texas.
A consultant from Penske Leisure declined to debate the occasion when reached for remark.
IndyCar, beneath its earlier iterations as CART, the Indy Racing League and USAC, has an extended historical past of racing in Texas, with the newest stops being made at TMS on the outskirts of Dallas/Fort Price, which was a staple till 2023, and Circuit of The Americas in 2019. IndyCar returned to COTA for preseason testing the next yr, however the scheduled race was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the venue was dropped from the schedule in 2021.
Previous to that was the road race in Houston, which ran across the unused Astrodome and the stadium for the NFL’s Houston Texans, most just lately in 2014. IndyCar additionally raced on the grand two-mile oval at Texas World Speedway in Faculty Station in 1973, and once more from 1976-79.
System 1 held an eponymous Dallas Grand Prix in 1984 in southern Dallas at Honest Park, which was topic to excruciating warmth, and in 1988, the SCCA Trans Am collection made a go to to a revised structure at Honest Park earlier than the collection moved to Addison Airport and Reunion Area, finally calling time on the occasion after the 1996 season.
Affirmation of the IndyCar occasion coming to the property belonging to Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones is predicted to happen within the coming weeks.
