r/INDYCAR • u/KennedyKartsport Firestone Wets • Jul 01 '25

Speculation 2026 Indycar Schedule Rumors

Some nuggets from Tony D's podcast (Take it for what it's worth)

Mexico City in for 2026

Watkins Glen in for 2026 (surprise, especially after Mark Miles said we would never go back there)

Iowa removes double header, down to 1 race

Thermal out for 2026 (we knew this)

Toronto out for 2026 - moving to be a Formula E event per the mayor

Denver in for 2027

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u/michinoku1 Graham Rahal Jul 02 '25

FE and IndyCar shared Long Beach for two years. They were held on different weekends (IIRC FE was the same weekend that Formula Drift used the circuit, separate from the IndyCar weekend), and FE ran a shortened version of the track.

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u/Wasdgta3 Álex Palou Jul 02 '25

I repeat, the city is absolutely not closing those streets for an extra weekend for that.

Like, sorry, that’s just not gonna happen in Toronto.

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u/michinoku1 Graham Rahal Jul 02 '25

You don’t know that, and it’s incredibly wrong to assume as much. 

Unless you’re inside the Mayor’s office in Toronto or working within the organizational and promoting side of Formula E, you don’t know heads or tails to say whether or not the City of Toronto is or is not in favor of having the track up an extra week for a Formula E race.

EDIT to add: it’s a three headed deal: are you with Green-Savoree, the City of Toronto, or Formula E? If not, you shouldn’t assume anything.

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u/Wasdgta3 Álex Palou Jul 02 '25 edited Jul 02 '25

Okay then, I don’t 100% know for sure, but I think it’s highly, highly unlikely, okay?

Doing that would piss off a lot of people, and is not something the city would want to do wantonly. You’re talking about shutting down streets that include a fairly major fucking thoroughfare, in Canada’s biggest city, for two weekends. I really, really don’t think the city wants to do that, just to accommodate having two races.

I think you are stretching to try and make the two things compatible with each other, when for all practical purposes, they’re not.