IndyCar will return to Texas in 2026 with a road race in Arlington in a three way partnership between the Dallas Cowboys and the official occasions companion of the Texas Rangers.

The IndyCar Arlington Grand Prix can be held in March 2026 on a 2.73-mile circuit that may characteristic AT&T Stadium, the place the Cowboys play, and Globe Life Area, the place the Rangers play. The course will weave via Arlington’s core sports activities and leisure district.

Extra particulars on the occasion can be introduced at a Tuesday ceremony that may embody IndyCar proprietor Roger Penske, Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones, Rangers chief working officer Neil Leibman, two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Josef Newgarden, three-time IndyCar champion Álex Palou and Main League Baseball Corridor of Famer Pudge Rodriguez.

“By way of a really outstanding and revolutionary partnership, we’ll construct racing’s subsequent world spectacle,” Penske stated in a Monday assertion. “Everybody concerned is totally dedicated to delivering an unbelievable and distinctive occasion weekend for the town of Arlington.”

The occasion in Arlington will get IndyCar again into Texas after Texas Motor Speedway dropped off the schedule this yr. IndyCar had raced on the Fort Price oval yearly because the sequence debut 1997 season via 2023. IndyCar and observe operator Speedway Motorsports have been unable to return to an settlement for 2024.

Penske placing collectively a deal in Arlington is a sign that the connection between IndyCar and Texas Motor Speedway is probably going over. The Texas observe was one of many sequence’ first and most loyal supporters up till the late Eddie Gossage retired as observe president in 2021.

However the market stays essential to IndyCar, and Penske has an present relationship with Jones relationship again to the 2006 Tremendous Bowl in Detroit, which Penske each helped safe and served as chairman of the host committee.

“We’re thrilled to affix forces with the Texas Rangers, Penske Leisure, and the Metropolis of Arlington to carry Grand Prix racing to the streets of the Arlington Leisure District,” Jones stated in a press release. “An occasion of this magnitude is one other nice reflection of what we imagined over 15 years in the past that AT&T Stadium may very well be part of.”

Motorsports veteran Invoice Miller on Monday was named president of the Grand Prix of Arlington. Miller was beforehand president of California Speedway and senior vice chairman of operations on the Specialty Tools Market Affiliation (SEMA) commerce present.