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.

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