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Penske Entertainment President & CEO Mark Miles \u201cwas steadfast in his assertion\u201d that it was the \u201ccomplications of next summer\u2019s FIFA men\u2019s World Cup — and that alone — that prevented IndyCar from racing at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez<\/a>,\u201d the permanent road course in Mexico City, according to Nathan Brown of the INDIANAPOLIS STAR. Miles said, \u201cWe were quite close on getting it done (for 2026). The World Cup and its effect on the economy and the business environment there for the summer next year really caused us to be more cautious.\u201d He added, \u201cWe\u2019re going to stay on it. I\u2019ll be in Mexico in the next month, and we\u2019ll be dealing with the folks at OCESA and CIE (the track promoters) to look for the opportunity. We want to be back there as soon as we can.\u201d As Miles \u201chinted at multiple times\u201d yesterday, Penske Entertainment has not yet \u201cdecided the way in which it will continue to pursue a future race in Mexico City — meaning either with or without a promoter on the ground serving as a middleman between Penske Entertainment and the track operators of Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez\u201d (INDIANAPOLIS STAR, 9\/16<\/i><\/a>).<\/p>\n 20\/20 VISION<\/b>: IndyCar and Penske Entertainment officials said that they \u201csaw the prospect of elevating two races\u201d — Laguna Seca as its future season finale, and Nashville Superspeedway in the prime TV window immediately following an eight-figure FIFA World Cup final audience — \u201cas reason enough\u201d to make its seventh change to the final race of the year since 2019. Brown in a separate piece wrote therein \u201clies the reason\u201d the third-most-watched race of 2025<\/a>, with an average audience of 1.142 million viewers, will \u201cvacate its spot as the potential championship decider and slide into the one-time role with a monster lead-in audience\u201d and hand the finale to Laguna Seca, a race that hasn\u2019t topped 750,000 in average audience since it rejoined the calendar in 2019. The shakeup \u201cseemed to leave many in the paddock as confused and curious as any development — appearing in the outset as a change for change\u2019s sake and a major step back in the quality and excitement for IndyCar\u2019s finale.\u201d The move is \u201cbelieved to have been an end product of a series of shifts in the potential landscape of the series\u2019 prospective 2026 calendar.\u201d Miles said that Penske Entertainment has \u201ca multi-year plan\u201d for Laguna Seca to \u201cremain the finale beyond 2026\u2033 (INDIANAPOLIS STAR, 9\/16<\/i><\/a>).<\/p>\n FUTURE LOOKING BRIGHT<\/b>: Brown in another separate piece wrote getting Phoenix back — in a shared weekend with NASCAR\u2019s Cup and Xfinity series<\/a>, no less — \u201cshould make for a high-interest second race of the year.\u201d He wrote a shared weekend with NASCAR on an oval \u201cis truly groundbreaking,\u201d though it would seem it \u201ctook the needling from Fox,\u201d which will broadcast both the IndyCar and Cup races that weekend, in order to \u201cbridge that gap between two series that see each other as competition — and the one in NASCAR who owns the track.\u201d He added if the series and its partners \u201ccan really tinker with the package\u201d over the offseason, there is \u201cevery reason to think IndyCar might hold the best racing of the weekend at the track.\u201d And \u201cdoing so in front of a much larger in-person crowd than they\u2019d otherwise get if they were the only show in town will only help contribute to exposing itself to a wider audience.\u201d If this goes well, perhaps there will be \u201cmore avenues to try shared weekends like this in the future\u201d (INDIANAPOLIS STAR, 9\/16<\/i><\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.sportsbusinessjournal.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Penske Entertainment President & CEO Mark Miles \u201cwas steadfast in his assertion\u201d that it was the \u201ccomplications of next summer\u2019s FIFA men\u2019s World Cup — and that alone — that prevented IndyCar from racing at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez,\u201d the permanent road course in Mexico City, according to Nathan Brown of the INDIANAPOLIS STAR. 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