PBIR new spot for IndyCar Series?
It looks like the IndyCar Series and Firestone Indy Lights might have a new testing place in Southern Florida. Palm Beach International Raceway, formerly known as Moroso Motorsports Park has completely renovated their facility. Vision racing tested their Daytona Prototype on the old road course a week prior to the Rolex 24 hours of Daytona with John Andretti, Vitor Meira, AJ Foyt IV, and Ed Carpenter behind the wheel a year ago. The new 2.034-mile, 11-turn, 6/10t -mile straightaway road course is boasting to have some of the fastest and most challenging corners, elevation changes and straightaways offered by any track in North America. It makes sense since their are not many places in the country where the IndyCar Series and Firestone Indy Lights can test in the winter. I am thinking this will be the potential replacement for Sebring this off season. The road course is still currently waiting FIA approval. This might be the second test location other than Homestead Miami Speedway. According to Homestead Miami Speedway’s web-site The IndyCar Series is set to test there February 23-26.
Video of Kyle Petty in Daytona Prototype at the new PBIR road course
January 12th, 2009 at 00:32
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January 13th, 2009 at 18:15
It looks like Palm Beach International Raceway will not be the test location this off-season. I would not scratch it out all together though. The IndyCar Series will be testing at Barber Motorsports Park again March 21-23, which is just under 2 weeks before the season opener at St. Pete.
January 28th, 2009 at 23:37
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