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-’80s and IndyCar from 1989-’91) and the American Le Mans Series (in the late 2000s) gracing previous events.
