Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Rumors Race On IZOD IndyCar Series Euro Event Date

Is there a more beautiful setting for a race circuit? I don’t think so. Here is Mugello portrayed as an oil painting. Caption and Image Credit: RacePainter via intentsgp.com

Rumors Race On IZOD IndyCar Series Euro Event Date

Rumors are in full swing about a race in the 2013 season to be held in Europe in the late summer. It appears that on September 15, 2013, an IZOD IndyCar Series (IICS) race has been posted on the Mugello circuit near Florence, Italy.

Found On Twitter:

Graham Rahal
22 minutes ago via Twitter ·
Anyone else find it interesting that the Mugello circuit in Italy has an @IndyCar race listed on its website for Sept. 15th all the sudden?

Mugello Circuit (Autodromo Internazionale del Mugello) is a race track in the Mugello region of Italy near Florence. Its length is 5.245 km (3.259 mi). It has 15 turns and a long straight.Grand Prix motorcycle racing host an annual event here (MotoGP and smaller classes). Also, the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters hold an annual event. The track is property of Scuderia Ferrari which uses it for Formula One testing. The first race of the A1GP 2008/09 season was originally planned to be held at the Mugello circuit on 21 September 2008. However, the race had to be cancelled due to the delay in building the new chassis for the new race cars. Caption Credit: Wikipedia - Image Credit: Wallpapers via mugellocircuit.it

This excerpted and edited from mugellocircuit.it

Event 

Title: Indy Car Series 

When: 15.09.2013 

Category: Races 

Description Sorry, no description available 
[Reference Here]

Testing begins this week in Sebring, Florida ... followed next week at Sonoma Raceway in Northern California. These rumors will continue as the pre-silly season hits full stride.

UPDATE (from Twitter):

Graham, there were some discussions, but there will not be a race in Italy in 2013 or the foreseeable future.

Matt Breeden is the current Vice President of Business Affairs at IndyCar Series. If anyone may have the real inside scoop, it's Matt (at least until IndyCar changes its mind - example: read that as the Randy Bernard tenure).

... notes from The EDJE

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

That's brilliant, I really hope it's true and I certainly wish for a good size crowd if it is.
I'll watch it for sure.