Looks like NASCAR is leaving Lucas Oil Raceway for IMS. This is straight from the Lucas Oil Raceway website.

NASCAR Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series to not return to Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis on traditional date for 2012

So will this be the end of the Oval Track? That was about the only race that made them money.

Indians, Pacers, IMS celebrating, while Lucas Oil Raceway takes hit
http://www.ibj.com/the-score/2011/07...AMS/post/28130

This is straight from the IMS web site.

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Super Weekend At The Brickyard Coming To IMS in July 2012

By Paul Kelly

Wednesday, July 06, 2011

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Super Weekend Schedule

The Indianapolis Motor Speedway will be the epicenter of American stock car racing and North American sports car racing July 26-29, 2012, as the NASCAR Nationwide Series and GRAND-AM Road Racing will join the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series for four exciting races during the inaugural Super Weekend at the Brickyard.

It will be the first time in IMS history that races will take place on the 2.5-mile oval and 2.534-mile Grand Prix road course during the same weekend, and the NASCAR Nationwide Series and GRAND-AM Road Racing will make their IMS debuts.

The 19th annual Brickyard 400 for the Sprint Cup Series will race on the oval Sunday, July 29, with the Nationwide Series also racing on the oval Saturday, July 28. GRAND-AM will conduct separate races for its Rolex Sports Car Series and Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge on the 13-turn IMS road course Friday, July 27.

“The Super Weekend at the Brickyard will offer non-stop excitement for every auto racing fan with the addition of the NASCAR Nationwide Series and GRAND-AM Road Racing,” said Jeff Belskus, Indianapolis Motor Speedway Corporation president and chief executive officer. “There will be competitive, fender-rubbing action from many different types of machinery for four days, featuring established stars and rising talents, on both the IMS oval and road course.

“This will be an unforgettable event and the start of a great new racing tradition at the Speedway.”

It's a pretty bad deal IMO, that makes the year for the oval. Let's take a watchable stockcar race on a good track and put it on a terrible track to add another terrible race to the weekend. Love IMS, but the track is a terrible place for stockcars to race. Guess money stopped the gentleman's agreement to not move it all these years. IMS just needs to admit the Brickyard is a turd and move on. Adding more bad racing won't help.

This is a real shame. NASCAR, especially with the Truck Series has put on some great shows at IRP. IMS is going to run this Grand Am Series on the Road Course instead of putting the Trucks on the oval, which would be the BEST SHOW OF THE WEEKEND HANDS DOWN!

If only Lucas Oil Raceway could go out and talk to Randy Bernard and get an Indycar date for that weekend and find a way to undercut the NASCAR show as a way to say thanks for their loyalty. Not going to happen with the relationship between IMS and the Indycar series, but it would make it a very interesting weekend. The size of the track might be an issue as well. I don't see how this will improve ticket sales for the cup race. Its a shame some of the greatest drivers in the world race in a series sanctioned by one of the most pathetic and greedy organizations in all of motorsports.

The last race that Dad and I went to see together was at IRP, the old Busch Series in 1987, not long before his passing.

Somehow I don't think he'd be pleased at this development.

Sean did a fine documentary on following the corn. Maybe he should do one called Follow the $$$.

Call me old fashioned but to me this is a form of desecration of the Speedway.

What's next, mini-van races on the big oval?

I hope that NHRA doesn't bulldoze the oval in favor of more parking for the U.S. Nationals or something equally stupid.

My family use to attend to kroger speed fest. It was a great weekend with the silver crown cars on thurs, trucks fridayn and the busch series on sat. Our last speedfest was 4 or 5 years back when someone(nascrap or irp) decided that the practice was off limits to fans. With that we were done and started to look elsewhere to fill the void. Hello sprintweek! That was the beginning of my dirt love affair. Perhaps others will discover what we love after they get this disappointing news
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