Thanks to the vision of Roger Penske and the Downtown Detroit Partnership, the event – which was a Formula 1 round from 1982 to 1988 – returned last year as a flagship IndyCar Series round in the shadow of General Motors’ imposing towers of its Renaissance Center that forms its global HQ. For now, at least.
The streets of Detroit are also no stranger to sportscars, with Trans-Am (which supported F1 in the mid-1980s and IndyCar from 1989-91) and the American Le Mans Series (in the late 2000s) gracing previous events.
