INDIANAPOLIS — Roger Penske added one other main occasion to Indianapolis Motor Speedway for 2023 with the return of the IMSA sports activities automobile championship.

The “IMSA Battle on the Bricks” will carry the NASCAR-owned collection to Indy’s 14-turn, 2.439-mile highway course for a 160-minute race. The occasion scheduled for Sept. 17 returns IMSA to Indy for the primary time since 2014.

“Indianapolis Motor Speedway is hallowed floor on this planet of motorsport, and we’re honored to carry IMSA and the WeatherTech Championship again to IMS,” IMSA president John Doonan mentioned. “There was mutual curiosity and plenty of conversations between IMSA and IMS management for fairly a while to carry our model of premium endurance sports activities automobile racing again to the Speedway and our collective followers.”

IMSA returns because the collection transitions into a brand new period of vehicles in its prime prototype class. The weekend will embody the IMSA Michelin Pilot Problem on Sept. 16, adopted by a four-hour, bumper-to-bumper site visitors jam of production-based race vehicles.

“Our popularity because the Racing Capital of the World will probably be additional enhanced by the IMSA Battle on the Bricks, as IMSA will be part of the most important collection competing at IMS in 2023,” mentioned Doug Boles, president of IMS. “IMSA options a number of the most evocative producers and machines in world motorsports, so a return to IMS is an ideal match for our loyal followers.”