BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — IndyCar is staying at Barber Motorsports Park no less than by way of 2027.

The sequence and ZOOM Motorsports introduced an extension to proceed racing on the everlasting street course on Sunday, a number of hours forward of the thirteenth working.

The Kids’s of Alabama Indy Grand Prix has been held on the monitor since 2010. Medical Properties Belief, an actual property funding belief, reached a five-year sponsorship settlement for the naming rights earlier this yr and gifted them to the Birmingham youngsters’s hospital.

“With its distinctive structure and dramatic options, this stunning facility is a favourite with our followers and inside our paddock,” Penske Leisure Corp. president and CEO Mark Miles mentioned.

Andretti Autosport’s Romain Grosjean begins on the pole Sunday for the second time this yr and third total. The Swiss-born Frenchman is searching for his first IndyCar win. Alex Palou of Chip Ganassi Racing additionally begins up entrance after ending first and second the previous two years.

Defending champion Pato O’Ward certified third, adopted by Scott McLaughlin, six-time sequence champion Scott Dixon and Christian Lundgaard. Dixon has six runners-up finishes at Barber however remains to be searching for his first win on the course.