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● The compressed schedule (March 26-Sept. 10) will allow for continuity with ABC/ESPN to provide fans with an IndyCar Series event almost every week, which will develop “appointment viewing.”
● The 2007 schedule will grow in the March and April window, along with some gaps in this year’s calendar. “We are committed to ending our season in early September,” he said.
● Venues that have previously hosted the IndyCar Series as well as venues that have little or no history with the IndyCar Series are on the “radar screen.”
● Multi-year agreements with venues currently on the schedule have been discussed with track personnel.
● The league is working with track personnel to have large-screen video boards at each venue to be used as vehicles to tell the stories of teams and drivers as they prepare for each race, take fans behind the scenes and make pauses in racing action entertaining.
● A car tracking system will be added to ABC/ESPN telecasts.
● There will be minimal changes to the technical specifications of the Honda Racing Indy V-8. “That is a tribute to the specs we have now. The reliability and performance we have witnessed has been outstanding,” Barnhart said. “There will be a level playing field, putting victory more in the hands of driver ability and crew capability with all teams will having exactly the same program.”
● The cost to teams of engine lease programs has been reduced $500,000 for a full season. For 2007, the lease will be about half the cost of 2005.
● Transition from methanol to 100 percent fuel-grade ethanol over the next two IndyCar Series seasons will have no significant technical barriers. “Our cars don’t sound differently, smell differently or run differently than they have in the past. It’s been a seamless transition so far,” Barnhart said.
● The 2007 schedule will grow in the March and April window, along with some gaps in this year’s calendar. “We are committed to ending our season in early September,” he said.
● Venues that have previously hosted the IndyCar Series as well as venues that have little or no history with the IndyCar Series are on the “radar screen.”
● Multi-year agreements with venues currently on the schedule have been discussed with track personnel.
● The league is working with track personnel to have large-screen video boards at each venue to be used as vehicles to tell the stories of teams and drivers as they prepare for each race, take fans behind the scenes and make pauses in racing action entertaining.
● A car tracking system will be added to ABC/ESPN telecasts.
● There will be minimal changes to the technical specifications of the Honda Racing Indy V-8. “That is a tribute to the specs we have now. The reliability and performance we have witnessed has been outstanding,” Barnhart said. “There will be a level playing field, putting victory more in the hands of driver ability and crew capability with all teams will having exactly the same program.”
● The cost to teams of engine lease programs has been reduced $500,000 for a full season. For 2007, the lease will be about half the cost of 2005.
● Transition from methanol to 100 percent fuel-grade ethanol over the next two IndyCar Series seasons will have no significant technical barriers. “Our cars don’t sound differently, smell differently or run differently than they have in the past. It’s been a seamless transition so far,” Barnhart said.
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