2025 Indycar series - News/rumours/hijinx

[John]

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[Everso Biggyballies]

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Zak and Michael have long been pissing in each others pockets. They collectively (with Ryan,son of Tom Walkinshaw) own Walkinshaw Andretti United in V8Supercars. Just last week they. confirmed having attracted Toyota to join V8SC with WAU as their official works / Homoligation team.

Zak has always been an ally of Andretti in the F1 team selection discussions or quotes.

An article from a couple of years ago: Michael Andretti and Zak Brown: Joined at the hip, with chance of more closeness to come?

The Andretti Aquisitions Co was set up by Andretti and Towriss ('the benefactor' and now Michaels Boss) some 18 months ago primarily to fund the F1 dream

A growing division between Andretti and Towriss has been alleged by numerous paddock sources in recent months, but no proof of the matter has been established.

In a statement provided by the team, Andretti Global suggests Andretti — a lifelong racer — is willingly handing over the reins of the team and company that bears his name.

....by 2021, Andretti and Towriss were actively searching for a Formula 1 team to purchase.

Unable to buy their way into F1 with Towriss’s financial backing, the duo established a new business, Andretti Global, in an effort to gain entry to F1 as a constructor. In 2022, Andretti Acquisitions Corporation was formed and registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission with a stated goal of raising $250,000,000 for business-related investments and purchases.

With Towriss’s rumored and separate investment into Andretti Global said to match or exceed that figure, Andretti’s new partner is understood to have taken a directorial role within the expansive racing organization, and within the IndyCar paddock, is often characterized as Andretti’s new boss.
Drawing from the alleged nine-figure infusion from Towriss and Group 1001, Andretti’s footprint in the sport expanded at a rapid rate.
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All from https://racer.com/2024/09/27/michael-an ... ship-role/.

Interesting scenario for sure but is it more to do with the proposed F1 team or Indycar. It will no doubt come out in the wash over the next days. But yeah I dont understand Zak as CEO of McLaren buying into a potential opponent in F1. Not to mention the Arrows McLaren set up he is also CEO of . Conflicts of interests and all that.

I dont think (am quite sure) Zak is not a shareholder of McLaren. Would be a strange time to do this given McLaren F1s sudden excellence from shitbox transformation. I cant believe Zak is about to jump ship from Papaya to Andretti and all the uncertainty re their (F1) future

[Everso Biggyballies]

Crikey its all go in Indycar-land. .... another street race. Not for 2025 but 2026.

Dont want to pre-judge it but the concept doesnt sound too flash.....set to be held around AT&T Stadium, home of the National Football League’s Dallas Cowboys, on the team’s expansive campus located in Arlington, Texas.

Sounds like a bit of a car park job to me.


IndyCar set for Dallas street race in 2026

The NTT IndyCar Series will be headed back to the Lone Star State in 2026.

After holding its last race at Texas Motor Speedway in 2023, RACER has learned Penske Entertainment will take its marquee open-wheel series to compete on the outskirts of Dallas. The street race is set to be held around AT&T Stadium, home of the National Football League’s Dallas Cowboys, on the team’s expansive campus located in Arlington, Texas.

A representative from Penske Entertainment declined to discuss the event when reached for comment.

IndyCar, under its previous iterations as CART, the Indy Racing League and USAC, has a long history of racing in Texas, with the most recent stops being made at TMS on the outskirts of Dallas/Fort Worth, which was a staple until 2023, and Circuit of The Americas in 2019. IndyCar returned to COTA for preseason testing the following year, but the scheduled race was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the venue was dropped from the schedule in 2021.

Prior to that was the street race in Houston, which ran around the unused Astrodome and the stadium for the NFL’s Houston Texans, most recently in 2014. IndyCar also raced on the grand two-mile oval at Texas World Speedway in College Station in 1973, and again from 1976-79.

Formula 1 held an eponymous Dallas Grand Prix in 1984 in southern Dallas at Fair Park, which was subject to excruciating heat, and in 1988, the SCCA Trans Am series made a visit to a revised layout at Fair Park before the series moved to Addison Airport and Reunion Arena, ultimately calling time on the event after the 1996 season.

Confirmation of the IndyCar event coming to the property belonging to Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is expected to take place in the coming weeks.

https://racer.com/2024/09/27/indycar-se ... e-in-2026/

[MonteCristo]

Without seeing a layout... yay? Will wait until a layout - if ever - emerges.

Hopefully the series gets some good money out of it, and teams can sell sponsorship into a big market.