Chicago (AFP) – IndyCar will return to Watkins Glen in September with a race on the famed road course in upstate New York replacing a canceled event that had been set for Boston.
The event will be 60 laps over the 3.4-mile permanent road course at Watkins Glen on September 4, the same day a race had been set for the streets of Boston on the original series schedule before organizers called it off last month.
The race, the penultimate event on the 16-event IndyCar schedule, will be the first for the series at Watkins Glen since 2010, when Australian Will Power took the victory.
“Watkins Glen has great racing history and it’s a track that will showcase the on-track competition and overall excitement level of our series,” said IndyCar competition and operations president Jay Frye.
Watkins Glen, long a Formula One stop, hosted nine prior IndyCar races starting in 1979 when three-time Indianapolis 500 winner Bobby Unser captured the first of two consecutive titles on the 2.4-mile short course. Four-time Indy 500 champion Rick Mears won in 1981 over the longer layout.
IndyCars returned to the track in 2005 when New Zealand’s Scott Dixon won the first of his three titles in a row at Watkins Glen. American Ryan Hunter-Reay, Britain’s Justin Wilson and Power took the checkered flag in the other three series starts on the layout.
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