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INDIANAPOLIS -- IndyCar announced Wednesday that the racing series will start its 2027 season March 7 on the streets of St. Petersburg.
The series released the locations and dates for the first eight races of the upcoming season. This will be the 17th time IndyCar has started a season at St. Petersburg.
"The start to this year's 2026 season was action-packed, and it's gratifying to know the stage is set for a return to that frantic pace in 2027," IndyCar President J. Douglas Boles said. "St. Pete has become an ideal host to begin our season."
IndyCar will open 2027 racing three straight weekends with the series going to Phoenix Raceway on March 13 and the streets of Arlington in Texas on March 21. This will be the second straight year and only the fifth time in the IndyCar series' 118 years that a season starts with races on three consecutive weekends.
The series takes a break before two races in April at Barber Motorsports Park on April 4 and Long Beach on April 18. Then it's off to Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the road course race May 15 and the 111th Indianapolis 500. The final race announced will be June 6 on the streets of Detroit.
All-Star site
NORTH WILKESBORO, N.C. -- NASCAR's All-Star race is returning to North Wilkesboro Speedway in 2027.
The midseason exhibition is moving back to the 0.625-mile asphalt oval in the picturesque North Carolina foothills after a one-year stop at Dover Motor Speedway. North Wilkesboro hosted the All-Star event for three years, from 2023-25.
The Sunday, May 23 race will be televised on Fox Sports in prime time. It also will be part of a tripleheader weekend that includes the Craftsman Truck Series on Friday and the O'Reilly Auto Parts Series on Saturday.
Cadillac change
SILVERSTONE, England -- Formula 1's newest outfit Cadillac fired its first team principal Graeme Lowdon and replaced him with former Alpine director Marcin Budkowski on Wednesday.