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46. This is actually something they are very good at. Actually planning the circuit...

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #36)

Sun Feb 1, 2026, 01:55 PM

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...will be the hardest part. Once that is done the setup for a street course usually only takes about two weeks since the series does this for fully a third of their races. It takes about another week to take it all down.

Seven months is a very short time to actually plan the circuit though. Because of this I really expect it to be a simple circuit geared more towards dramatic shots of cars running around iconic monuments than a true racing circuit. You can bet they will want to race under the vanity Arc if they can.

With 60% of the drivers in INDYCAR being foreign-born--and only approximately 35% of races being won by American-born racers over the last decade--there's a good chance one of them will win the race--which would be fitting IMO.

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