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# IndyCar’s Detroit GP could return to ex-F1 location
- URL: https://www.the-race.com/indycar/indycars-detroit-gp-could-return-to-ex-f1-location/
- Published: 2021-09-29T13:53:20.000Z
- Updated: 2023-09-16T15:49:08.000Z
- Description: The organiser of the Detroit Grand Prix is considering a move back onto the downtown streets of the city, an area where the event’s glory days boasted a round of the Formula 1 World Championship
- Author: Jack Benyon
- Tags: IndyCar, #image-bottom-center

The organiser of the Detroit Grand Prix is considering a move back onto the downtown streets of the city, an area where the event’s glory days boasted a round of the Formula 1 World Championship.

Formula 1 (pictured below) raced on a Detroit street course around a group of skyscrapers known as the Renaissance Centre from 1982-1988 before IndyCar took over from 1989-1991.

![Nelson Piquet Story 1979 91](https://storage.googleapis.com/the-race-com.appspot.com/1/2021/09/XPB_1032156_HiRes.jpg)

In 1992 the event moved to a temporary circuit on Belle Isle which would later become permanent. Since then it only had hiatuses from 2002-2006 and 2009-2011 but has run every year since then in the current IndyCar Series, aside from last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

[For 2022 the event moves to a single-header for the first time since 2012,](https://www.the-race.com/indycar/indycar-reveals-2022-calendar/) but the organising team has made clear its intentions to investigate a return to downtown Detroit in a move that would “represent a connection to the rich heritage of the Grand Prix” in a statement issued on Wednesday.

> It has been 30 years since the last [#DetroitGP](https://twitter.com/hashtag/DetroitGP?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=the-race.com) on the streets of downtown Detroit. The race returns to Belle Isle June 3-5, 2022 while event organizers have begun exploring a possible return to a [#Detroit](https://twitter.com/hashtag/Detroit?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=the-race.com) street circuit beginning in 2023\. [pic.twitter.com/uui4G8DmVG](https://t.co/uui4G8DmVG?ref=the-race.com)
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> — Detroit Grand Prix (@detroitgp) [September 29, 2021](https://twitter.com/detroitgp/status/1443168689100976135?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=the-race.com)

The event is looking to make the move for the 2023 season, so next year’s IndyCar race will remain on the Belle Isle track.

IndyCar added a new street course to its 2021 calendar, in downtown Nashville, which was a huge success for the event and for IndyCar in Tennessee.