Finalized 2010 IndyCar Schedule Breaks Season Into Four Segments

The Indy Racing League (IRL) recently announced their finalized schedule for 2010, and it's broken into four distinct parts emphasizing road courses and oval tracks.

The first four races of the season (Brazil, St. Petersburg, FL, Alabama, and Long Beach) take place on closed-track or closed-street road courses, followed by four races (Kansas, Indy, Texas, and Iowa) on oval tracks. It's back to the road courses for five straight races (Watkins Glen, Toronto, Edmonton, Mid-Ohio, and Infineon) before ending the season with four oval track races (Chicagoland, Kentucky, Twin Ring Motegi in Japan, and Homestead-Miami).

The 2010 schedule consists of nine road course races and eight ovals, which is somewhat amusing since the IRL was formed because former sanctioning body CART placed too much emphasis on road course racing.

The complete 2010 IndyCar schedule:

March 14th - Brazil (course to be determined)
March 28th - Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, streets of St. Petersburg, FL
April 11th - Grand Prix of Alabama, Barber Motorsports Park, Birmingham, AL
April 18th - Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, streets of Long Beach, CA
May 1st - RoadRunner Turbo Indy 300, Kansas Speedway, Kansas City, KS
May 30th - the 94th running of the Indianapolis 500, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Speedway, IN
June 5th - Bombardier Learjet 550, Texas Motor Speedway, Ft. Worth, TX
June 20th - Iowa Corn Indy 250, Iowa Speedway, Newton, IA
July 4th - Camping World Watkins Glen Grand Prix, Watkins Glen International, Watkins Glen, NY
July 18th - Honda Indy Toronto, streets of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
July 25th - Rexall Edmonton Indy, Edmonton City Centre Airport, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
August 8th - Honda 200, Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Lexington, OH
August 22nd - Peak Antifreeze and Motor Oil Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma County, Infineon Raceway, Sonoma, CA
August 28th - Peak Antifreeze Indy 300, Chicagoland Speedway, Joliet, IL
September 4th - Meijer Indy 300 presented by Red Baron and Edy's, Kentucky Speedway, Sparta, KY
September 19th - Indy Japan 300, Twin Ring Motegi, Motegi, Japan
October 2nd - GAINSCO Auto Insurance Indy 300, Homestead-Miami Speedway, Homestead, FL