IndyCar has announced its calendar for the 2025 season, which sees all tracks on the 2024 schedule remaining and no new additions.
The Thermal Club remains on the programme but as a championship round, in contrast to the non-points $1 Millon Challenge, which ran in March this year.
The season will begin on the Streets of St. Petersburg, as it has in most years since 2009. The Music City Grand Prix at Nashville Superspeedway will conclude the season as it will in 2024.
Seventeen events remain as championship rounds, with the Milwaukee Mile dropping to a single race rather than a double-header following the addition of the Thermal Club outing.
The season starts one week earlier, on March 2, and finishes two weeks earlier, on August 31.
The opening six rounds remain the same: St. Peterburg and The Thermal Club are followed by the Grand Prix of Long Beach (April 13), Barber Motorsports Park (May 4), the Indianapolis Road Course (May 10), the 109th Running of the Indianapolis 500 (May 25), and the Streets of Detroit (June 1).
World Wide Technology Raceway’s round comes forward a month to June 15 and is followed by Road America (June 22), Mid-Ohio (July 6) and a double-header at Iowa Speedway (July 12-13)
The season concludes with rounds in Toronto (July 20), Laguna Seca (July 27), Portland (August 10), Milwaukee (August 24), and Nashville (August 31).
The schedule announcement coincided with the news of a new free-to-air partnership with American broadcaster Fox.
As a result of the deal, IndyCar becomes the only premier motorsport in the United States with exclusive major broadcast network coverage for all its races.
The broadcast deal includes Indy NXT, which means the majority of the second-tier series’ races will be broadcast on live television.
2025 IndyCar Calendar
March 2 | Grand Prix of St. Petersburg |
March 23 | The Thermal Club* |
April 13 | Streets of Long Beach* |
May 4 | Barber Motorsports Park |
May 10 | Indianapolis Road Course |
May 25 | Indianapolis 500* |
June 1 | Streets of Detroit |
June 15 | World Wide Technology Raceway |
June 22 | Road America |
July 6 | Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course |
July 12 | Iowa Speedway Race 1 |
July 13 | Iowa Speedway Race 2* |
July 20 | Streets of Toronto* |
July 27 | Laguna Seca |
August 10 | Portland International Raceway |
August 24 | Milwaukee Mile |
August 31 | Nashville Superspeedway |
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