Menstuff® has compiled the following information on the IRL
schedule for 2007. See also ALMS
and Champ
Cars
(Start/finish/qual
speed/laps/status)
The IRL released the schedule for 2007 with seventeen races.
IRL
March 24 - Homestead-Miami
Speedway 
FL 1.5-mile oval (Night) 
(13 14 211.431 154 0 0 Accident)
IRL
April 1 - Streets of St.
Petersburg ,
FL 1.8-mile street course 
( 11 8 101.901 100 0 0 Running)
IIRL
April 21 - Twin
Ring Motegi ,
Japan 1.5-mile oval
(4 11 204.270 198 0 0 Running)
IRL
April 29 - Kansas
Speedway ,
KS 1.5-mile oval
(10 7 211.796 198 0 0 Running)
IRL
May 27 - Indy 500, Indianapolis
Motor Speedway
IN, 2.5-mile oval 
(8 8 0.000 166 0 0 Running)
IRL
June 3 - The
Milwaukee Mile ,
West Allis, WI 1-mile oval
IRL
June 9 - Texas
Motor Speedway ,
TX 1.5-mile oval (Night)
IRL
June 24 - Iowa
Speedway, .875-mile oval
IRL
June 30 - Richmond
International Raceway ,
VA, .75-mile oval (Night)
IRL
July 8 - Watkins
Glen International Raceway ,
NY, 3.37-mile road course
IRL
July 14 - Nashville
Superspeedway ,
TN 1.33-mile oval (Night)
IRL
July 22 - Mid-Ohio Sports
Car Course ,
Lexington, OH, 2.258-mile road course
IRL
August 5 - Michigan
International Speedway ,
MI 2-mile oval
IRL
August 11 - Kentucky
Speedway ,
KY 1.5-mile oval (Night)
IRL
August 26 - Infineon
Raceway ,
Sonoma, CA 2.4-mile road course
IRL
Sept. 2 - The Raceway at Belle Isle, Streets of Detroit,
MI, 2.096-mile street course
IRL
September 9 - Chicagoland
Speedway ,
IL 1.5-mile oval
The Indy Racing League will switch its race at Kansas Speedway from July to late April next year as a buildup to the start of practice for the Indianapolis 500.
The July slot vacated by Kansas instead will be used for a road race at Watkins Glen, and a feasibility test eventually could produce an IRL race at Daytona International Speedway, NASCAR's most famous track.
The earlier date for Kansas would provide cooler weather and a more comfortable atmosphere for fans, 70 percent of whom had voiced support for the switch, said track president Jeff Boerger. Having a race the July 4 holiday week at Watkins Glen, meanwhile, would enhance the upstate New York area's attractiveness to summertime tourists, said president Craig Rust.
Barnhart said moving the Kansas race to one week before the Indianapolis Motor Speedway opens for practice would fill a seven-week gap in which the only race the past two years has been in Japan.
"The race at Twin Ring Motegi is also an important event for us because of our partners at Honda and Firestone," he said. "But it is difficult to get the mainstream media to follow you when you're on the other side of the planet, and we kind of disappear off the radar screen for the 10 or 12 days that we're over on the other side.
"It certainly gets us back into the mainstream media and the public eye the week before practice opens for the Indianapolis 500."
