The second appearance next year of the IMSA WeatherTech Championship at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway under the ownership of Roger Penske will become a major endurance event.
The 2024 race, as expected, will be a six-hour event on Sept. 22. Next month’s return of IMSA to Indianapolis will be a standard two hour, 40-minute affair.
The six-hour distance is within a traditional length of a sports car endurance race, but is designed not to overtax the track’s resources or the those of the teams, The Indy race joins the 24-hour at Daytona, the 12-hour at Sebring and the six-hour at Watkins Glen in the endurance ranks of the nine-race schedule released over the weekend.
Lime Rock Motorsports Park, which hosted the WeatherTech’s GT cars last month, is not on the 2024 schedule. Discussions about a date at Lime Rock after 2024 will be revisited.
2024 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship
Schedule
- Jan. 19-21: Roar Before the 24, Daytona, GTP/LMP2/GTD Pro/GTD
- Jan. 28: Rolex 24 at Daytona, GTP/LMP2/GTD Pro/GTD
- March 16: Sebring, Fla., GTP/LMP2/GTD Pro/GTD
- April 20: Long Beach, Calif., GTP/GTD
- May 12: WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, Calif., GTP/GTP Pro/GTD
- June 1: Detroit, GTP/GTD Pro
- June 30: Watkins Glen, N.Y., GTP/LMP2 /GTD Pro/GTD
- July 14: Canadian Tire Motorsports Park, Ontario, Canada, LMP2/GRD Pro/GTD
- Aug. 4: Road America, Elkhart Lake, Wis., GTP/LMP2/GTD Pro/GTD
- Aug. 25: Virginia International Raceway, GTD Pro/GTD
- Sept. 22: Indianapolis Motor Speedway, GTP/LMP2/GTD Pro/GTD
- Oct. 12: Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, GTP/LMP2/GTD Pro/GTD
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