The Grand Prix at Indianapolis, an IndyCar race that was postponed from its original May date because of the coronavirus pandemic, will go off Saturday on the speedway’s road course. A NASCAR Xfinity Series race will follow on the same track. On Sunday, the Brickyard 400, a jewel of the NASCAR Cup Series, will be raced on Indy’s 2.5-mile oval. “This concept has been talked about for years,” said Scott Dixon, the Indianapolis 500 winner in 2008 and a five-time IndyCar Series champion. “But it took strange times — really strange times — to make the impossible finally happen.”NASCAR and IndyCars have not shared the same facility since 1959, when Daytona International Speedway opened with its banked design.

Source: International New York Times July 01, 2020 21:22 UTC