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# When is the next IndyCar race? Full 2024 schedule and Indy 500 dates
- URL: https://www.the-race.com/indycar/when-is-the-next-indycar-race-and-the-indy-500/
- Published: 2024-09-02T09:42:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-09-06T15:00:08.000Z
- Description: A blockbuster new finale, a $1million non-championship race and the fan-demanded return of a classic oval headline this year’s IndyCar calendar. Here's the full 2024 schedule and Indianapolis 500 dates
- Author: The Race Team
- Tags: IndyCar

A blockbuster new finale which changed locations before it even happened, a $1million non-championship race and the fan-demanded return of a classic oval headline this year’s IndyCar calendar.

The increasingly-popular Nashville round is hosted in one of America’s burgeoning tourism hot-spots, but a plan to move slightly but keep its city centre street race ultimately failed as a rejigged organising group elected to instead move the race to the Nashville oval used by NASCAR.

> .[@MusicCityGP](https://twitter.com/MusicCityGP?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=the-race.com) has announced updates to the 2024 season finale.[@NashvilleSuperS](https://twitter.com/NashvilleSuperS?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=the-race.com) will be the first oval in a decade to serve as the NTT [#INDYCAR](https://twitter.com/hashtag/INDYCAR?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=the-race.com) SERIES Championship finale. [pic.twitter.com/BWLe1OwgjA](https://t.co/BWLe1OwgjA?ref=the-race.com)
> 
> — NTT INDYCAR SERIES (@IndyCar) [February 14, 2024](https://twitter.com/IndyCar/status/1757796856086548565?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=the-race.com)

The site of last year’s pre-season test, the super-exclusive Thermal Club, [hosts a non-championship race](https://www.the-race.com/indycar/indycar-adds-1million-non-points-heat-format-event-for-2024/) to break up the gap between races one and two where the cancelled Texas oval race would have been, while former season finale venue Laguna Seca moves to a new June date.

[Milwaukee’s short oval returns](https://www.the-race.com/indycar/all-you-need-to-know-about-indycars-2024-calendar/) and there’s plenty of excitement for a double-header, which should set up a nice title fight as the penultimate round before Nashville - which now makes for a three-race oval run-in to conclude the campaign.

> Start your engines 🏎️ [pic.twitter.com/WBXcFnqSwV](https://t.co/WBXcFnqSwV?ref=the-race.com)
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> — NTT INDYCAR SERIES (@IndyCar) [September 25, 2023](https://twitter.com/IndyCar/status/1706328501836472713?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=the-race.com)

Of course, the Indy 500 takes its usual spot on the last weekend in May, which sadly follows the familiar trend of clashing with the Monaco Grand Prix, while a very quiet month from late-July to mid-August is down to a gap where TV partner NBC will dedicate almost its entire coverage to the Olympic Games, which has caused some of the aforementioned calendar shuffles.

## When is the next race?

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/dd/af/ddafbd99-2ccd-468c-b622-4b3cccf80b49/content/images/2024/09/Graham-Rahal---NTT-INDYCAR-SERIES-Test-at-the-Nashville-Superspeedway---By_-James-Black_Large-Image-Without-Watermark_m109586.jpg)

The next race is the Nashville Super Speedway season finale on September 15\. The 1.33-mile oval hasn't been on the IndyCar calendar since 2008.

Alex Palou leads the championship by 33 points heading in, and a ninth-place finish would guarantee him the title.

## Full 2024 calendar

St Petersburg (street course) - March 8-10 (won by Pato O'Ward)  
Thermal Club (road course) - March 22-24 (won by Alex Palou)  
Long Beach (street course) - April 19-21 (won by   
Barber Motorsports Park (road course) - April 26-28  
Indianapolis road course - May 10-11 (won by Alex Palou)  
Indy 500 (oval) - May 26 (won by Josef Newgarden)  
Detroit (street course) - May 31-June 2 (won by Scott Dixon)  
Road America (road course) - June 7-9 (won by Will Power)  
Laguna Seca (road course) - June 21-23 (won by Alex Palou)  
Mid-Ohio (road course) - July 5-7 (won by Pato O'Ward)  
Iowa double-header (oval) - July 12-14 (won by Scott McLaughlin, Will Power)  
Toronto (street course) - July 19-21 (won by Colton Herta)  
Gateway (oval) - August 16-17 (won by Josef Newgarden)  
Milwaukee double-header (oval) - August 30-June 1 (won by Pato O'Ward, Scott McLaughlin)  
Nashville Superspeedway (oval) - September 13-15