The Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series recently announced its schedule for 2007 with 14 races listed. For the first time several of the events will have the Daytona Prototype cars and the production based GT class cars running in seperate races.
Here’s the schedule as announced;
Jan. 27-28 Daytona International Speedway – Daytona Beach, Fla. 24 hours
March 3 Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez – Mexico City, Mexico 400 km
March 24 Homestead-Miami Speedway – Homestead, Fla. 400 km
April 28-29 Virginia International Raceway – Alton, Va. * 400 km
May 19-20 Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca – Monterey, Calif. * 400 km
May 28 Lime Rock Park – Lakeville, Conn. # 400 km
June 9 Watkins Glen International – Watkins Glen, N.Y. 6 hours
June 23-24 Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course – Lexington, Ohio * 400 km
July 5 Daytona International Speedway – Daytona Beach, Fla. 250 miles
July 14 Iowa Speedway – Newton, Iowa * 400 km
July 21-22 Barber Motorsports Park – Birmingham, Ala. * 400 km
Aug. 3 Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve – Montreal, Quebec, Canada 400 km
Aug. 10 Watkins Glen International – Watkins Glen, N.Y. + 200 miles
Aug. 25 Infineon Raceway – Sonoma, Calif. + 400 km
Sept. 15 Miller Motorsports Park – Tooele, Utah 1,000 km
* – Daytona Prototype and GT classes to run separate events
# – GT class only
+ – Daytona Prototype class only
To the total surprise of no-one, NASCAR has confirmed that a Busch Series race will be held at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Monteal, Canada on August 4th, 2007. This will be the first NASCAR race north of the border and continues stock cars expansion plans.
The Busch race replaces the traditional Champ Car event at the circuit.
The full 2007 Busch Series schedule is as follows:
Feb 17 Daytona
Feb 24 California Speedway
Mar 4 Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez
Mar 10 Las Vegas Motor Speedway
Mar 17 Atlanta Motor Speedway
Mar 24 Bristol Motor Speedway
Apr 7 Nashville Superspeedway
Apr 14 Texas Motor Speedway
Apr 20 Phoenix International Raceway
Apr 28 Talladega Superspeedway
May 4 Richmond International Raceway
May 11 Darlington Raceway
May 26 Lowes Motor Speedway
Jun 2 Dover International Speedway
Jun 9 Nashville Superspeedway
Jun 16 Kentucky Speedway
Jun 23 The Milwaukee Mile
Jun 30 New Hampshire International Speedway
Jul 6 Daytona International Speedway
Jul 14 Chicagoland Speedway
Jul 21 Gateway International Raceway
Jul 28 O’Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis
Aug 4 Circuit Gilles Villeneuve
Aug 11 Watkins Glen International
Aug 18 Michigan International Speedway
Aug 24 Bristol Motor Speedway
Sep 1 California Speedway
Sep 7 Richmond International Raceway
Sep 22 Dover International Speedway
Sep 29 Kansas Speedway
Oct 12 Lowes Motor Speedway
Oct 27 Memphis Motorsports Park
Nov 3 Texas Motor Speedway
Nov 10 Phoenix International Raceway
Nov 17 Homestead-Miami Speedway
The Champ Car World Series has released its provisonal schedule for 2007.
April 8 – Las Vegas, Nevada – Street Course*
April 15 – Long Beach, California – Street Course
April 22 – Houston, Texas – Reliant Park
May 20 – Zhuhai, China – Road Course *
June 10 – Portland, Oregon – Portland International Raceway
June 24 – Cleveland, Ohio – Burke Lakefront Airport
July 1 – St. Jovite, Canada – Circuit Mont Tremblant
July 8 – Toronto, Canada – Exhibition Place
July 22 – Edmonton, Canada – City Centre Airport
July 29 – San Jose, California – Street Course
Aug. 12 – Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin – Road America
Aug. 19 – Denver, Colorado – Pepsi Center
Oct. 21 – Surfers Paradise, Australia – Street Course
Nov. 11 – Mexico City, Mexico – Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez
Dec. 2 – Phoenix, Arizona – Street Course*
*New races for 2007.
The season will be bookeneded by two new street course races in Las Vegas and Phoenix, an interesting development in two markets that already have well established oval speedways. The inclusion of a date in China shows another attempt by Champ Car to break into the expanding Asian market, but its place in the schedule seems like a logistics nightmare, I have to wonder why it wasn’t scheduled around the same time as the established Australian date so the teams could do one swing through the area rather than have two “fly away” races months apart. As expected the Montreal race date (which will most likely be taken over by a NASCAR Busch race) is being replaced by a race at the nearby Mont Tremblant road course.
After all the publicity and strident ruling from the FIA that no single country will be allowed to host two Grands Prix in a single season any more, it seems that as soon as the rule is set, it’s broken.
Germany agreed to drop the European GP and alternate its race between Hockenheim and the Nurburgring, and Italy lost the Imola hosted San Marino GP in favor of keeping its national race at Monza – But…
The BBC is now reporting that ”Imola’s chances of continuing to stage F1’s San Marino Grand Prix have been boosted by news that redevelopment work will start at the track on 4 October. The circuit is hoping to host the extra grand prix added to the F1 calendar this week when it was expanded from 17 to 18 races for the 2007 season. No race is currently scheduled for the last weekend in April. The Italian government said the aim was for “the grand prix to be held on 29 April 2007 and in following years”.
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