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From 2000 to 2008, ABC and ESPN were the exclusive television partners of the Indy Racing League. [51] In 2009, Versus (later NBCSN) and ABC began a 10-year deal with IndyCar, NBCSN broadcast 13 IndyCar races per season, whereas the remaining races, including the Indianapolis 500, would remain on ABC. [52]
The 1996–97 Indy Racing League was the second season contested by the Indy Racing League.Tony Stewart was the champion, while Arie Luyendyk won the Indianapolis 500.The lengthy season was a result of the league abandoning the concept of ending each season with the Indianapolis 500.
Team Menard, who had been running an Indy 500 one-off program with stock-block engines for a decade, planned to compete in the Indy Racing League with a two-car program. Since 1985, their only Indy Car race outside Indianapolis was the 1990 Autoworks 200 at Phoenix International Raceway, with Jim Crawford. The team bought two brand-new Lola T95 ...
The Indianapolis 500, formally known as the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, [1] [2] and commonly shortened to Indy 500, is an annual automobile race held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana, United States, an enclave suburb of Indianapolis. The event is traditionally held over Memorial Day weekend, usually the last weekend of May.
Montoya would not race in the Indy 500 again until 2014. After one year of retirement, two-time Indy 500 winner Arie Luyendyk returned to the cockpit. After an experimental two-week schedule was used for the Indy 500 from 1998 to 2000, the Speedway reverted to a more traditional three-week schedule for practice, time trials, and the race.
The 2001 Indy Racing Northern Light Series saw the addition of five races and loss of one to bring the total to 13. Chip Ganassi Racing returned to the Indy 500 with four cars and were joined on the grid by Penske Racing and Team Kool Green .
The VisionAire 500K was an Indy Racing League race held at Charlotte Motor Speedway from 1997 to 1999. During the 1999 event, three spectators were killed when debris from a crash on the track went into the grandstands. The race was stopped and canceled, and the event was removed from the Indy Racing League schedule.
The 1998 Pep Boys Indy Racing League was one of relative stability compared to the previous two seasons. For the first time the season consisted of a single and complete spring, summer, and fall like all other motorsports. 15 drivers completed the entire 11 race schedule, twice as many as the previous season.