INDYCAR’s expanded presence on network television in 2019 through its new partnership with NBC Sports Group will not only include the 103rd Running of the Indianapolis 500, along with other action at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in May, but also the IndyCar Series’ new season finale at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca near Monterey, California.
Ryan Hunter-Reay and Josef Newgarden, the two most recent American champions of the IndyCar Series, will be flying the U.S. flag later this month at the Race Of Champions in Mexico City.
The driving duo was named Friday by the all-star event’s officials to form Team USA for the two-day competition Jan. 19-20 at the Foro Sol, the amphitheater that forms part of the Formula One road course at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez.
Americas Rallycross (ARX) will be supported by the biggest rallycross tire supplier in the world as ARX and ARX2 makes its first visits to the Midwest in 2019.
The Cooper Tires ARX of Mid-Ohio will be held twice in 2019, on June 8-9 and October 5-6, at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, where Cooper Tires has been the official tire since 2016.
New Fan Website Also Launched
LEXINGTON, Ohio (December 13, 2018) – Mid-Ohio Season Race Passes are on sale now for the 58th season of racing at the legendary road course in Lexington, Ohio. As announced last week, Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course will feature its largest and most diverse spectator schedule in 2019 with three additional event weekends added.
Rallycross fan favorite Steve Arpin, is excited by the new Mid-Ohio addition to the 2019 ARX schedule. ARX’s first Midwestern events will take place on June 8-9 and October 5-6 next season.
Canadian star Arpin raced a Ford Focus RS RX in the inaugural ARX season as teammate to Gymkhana legend Ken Block in the Loenbro Hoonigan team. Arpin finished on the podium in the final round at the Circuit of The Americas and is enjoying the expansion of the sport in the US.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (Dec. 6, 2018) – Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course will join the Americas Rallycross (ARX) Championship calendar for the 2019 season. The Cooper Tires ARX of Mid-Ohio will mark the first-ever Midwestern events for ARX as well as Mid-Ohio’s first rallycross events, June 8-9 and October 5-6 next year.
The ARX Championship comes to the Midwest for the first time, June 8-9, then returns for a second weekend, October 5-6. The ARX and ARX2 events will be held on a temporary 0.7-mile, 10-turn asphalt and dirt configuration with a jump constructed near the “Keyhole” section of Mid-Ohio.
NASA Championships also Returns to Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course
LEXINGTON, Ohio (December 6, 2018) – The 58th season of racing at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course will feature its largest and most diverse spectator schedule in 2019. Eight event weekends are slated for the 330-acre permanent facility in Lexington, Ohio, which will extend into fall next season.
As he left his first press conference at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in May 2017, Fernando Alonso stepped on a motorized skateboard and quickly disappeared into the crowd, sublimely cool yet mostly unnoticed by fans milling behind the Pagoda in the track’s infield.
Alonso won’t be as inconspicuous or as subtle this time around, but he will be as cool as ever.