{"id":18978,"date":"2026-01-30T23:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/indycar-adds-washington-d-c-to-2026-calendar\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T23:33:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:33:00","slug":"indycar-adds-washington-d-c-to-2026-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/indycar-adds-washington-d-c-to-2026-calendar\/","title":{"rendered":"INDYCAR adds Washington D.C. to 2026 calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/01-30-DCGP-IC.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/01-30-DCGP-IC.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18968\" srcset=\"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/01-30-DCGP-IC.png 1000w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/01-30-DCGP-IC-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/01-30-DCGP-IC-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><strong>INDYCAR announced today that a brand new race &#8211; the Freedom 250 Grand Prix &#8211; will take place in Washington D.C. this August as part of the United States&#8217; 250th anniversary celebrations<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The event &#8211; which will mark the first motor race in history to take place in the U.S. capital &#8211; is scheduled for August 21-23. A street course layout is currently being devised for the occasion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The addition of D.C. expands the 2026 INDYCAR calendar to 18 races, up from the original tally of 17. It will also set up a ferocious run-in to the championship with five consecutive weekends of racing to round out the campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>INDYCAR 2026: <a href=\"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/calendar\/\" title=\"Calendar\">full calendar<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indycar.com\/news\/2026\/01\/01-30-freedom250gp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Read the full press release announcement for the Freedom 250 Grand Prix here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<!-- wp:themify-builder\/canvas \/-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INDYCAR announced today that a brand new race &#8211; the Freedom 250 Grand Prix &#8211; will take place in Washington D.C. this August as part of the United States&#8217; 250th anniversary celebrations&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[170],"class_list":["post-18978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news3","tag-ntt-indycar-series-2026","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"aioseo_notices":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18978"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18984,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18978\/revisions\/18984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}