IndyCar releases updated 14-race 2020 schedule with multiple changes

IndyCar has released an updated schedule for the 2020 season that features multiple changes, including three cancellations, five postponements and one race moved up a week.

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, IndyCar, like every other sporting league in the world, was forced to take action, and that action involved changing the schedule almost on a daily basis.

In recent days, those changes have somewhat leveled off, but the series made its biggest move toward the end of this past week. That involved moving the Indianapolis 500, which has never been held outside of May in its 103 editions, back by nearly three months.

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This change, which followed four of the season’s original 17 events being scrapped from the calendar, prompted the series to alter the schedule to make room for the traditional two-week Indy 500 period at Indianapolis Motor Speedway for practice, qualifying and the race itself.

Now the series has released an updated schedule. This updated schedule is not completely set and is obviously subject to change; one race is on there without having a date confirmed yet as it is.

This new schedule includes 14 races, including one of the four that was knocked off the calendar earlier in the year.

Of the other 13 races, the 13 that have been on the calendar since the schedule was released early last September, four were also postponed, with one of those four being the Indy 500. One race was also moved up by a week to clear space for Indy 500 practice and qualifying.

Here is the newly released 2020 IndyCar schedule.

NOTE: *=race date has changed

Race # – Location – Date
1 – The Raceway at Belle Isle Park – Saturday, May 30, 2020 
2 – The Raceway at Belle Isle Park – Sunday, May 31, 2020 
3 – Texas Motor Speedway – Saturday, June 6, 2020 
4 – Road America – Sunday, June 21, 2020 
5 – Richmond Raceway – Saturday, June 27, 2020 
6* – Indianapolis Motor Speedway (road course) – Saturday, July 4, 2020 
7 – Streets of Toronto – Sunday, July 12, 2020 
8 – Iowa Speedway – Saturday, July 18, 2020 
9* – Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course – Sunday, August 9, 2020 
10* – Indianapolis Motor Speedway (Indy 500) – Sunday, August 23, 2020 
11* – World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway – Sunday, August 30, 2020 
12* – Portland International Raceway – Sunday, September 13, 2020 
13 – WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca – Sunday, September 20, 2020
14* – Streets of St. Petersburg – Sunday, TBD, 2020

The three races that were completely scrapped from the calendar were the races at Barber Motorsports Park, the streets of Long Beach, California and Circuit of the Americas.

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An updated broadcast schedule for the 2020 IndyCar season is slated to be revealed at a later date. This, too, would obviously remain subject to change.