Road America announces 2027 IndyCar date

Open-wheel racing fans can officially mark their calendars as Road America announced the 2027 XPEL Grand Prix will take place from June 24–27.

The event comes shortly after the IndyCar Series revealed Phase One of its 2027 schedule earlier this week. chickenroadslot.pro

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Mystery surrounds a highly regarded British Athletics coach who has not been heard from since visiting Morocco around two months ago.

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Leon Baptiste, 41, who coaches a number of elite athletes including the Paris Olympic 4x400m relay bronze medallist Charlie Dobson, is believed to have gone to Morocco for the weekend with some close friends for a stag do or golf trip.

Blikra sprinted to the finish in Andenes after the main field caught the breakaway riders. The stage covered 18 miles starting from Bø in Vesterålen.

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Giovanni Lonardi won the opening stage, while the next challenge awaits on Saturday with a 146km ride to Storheia. The race concludes in Narvik on Sunday.

Markham, Ontario — Jared Odrick is about 50 pounds lighter than when he was playing in the NFL at around 300-315 pounds. But the 38-year-old still stands at 6-foot-5. And for a man that tall who weighs about 250 pounds, getting into a race car can be tough. In fact, when he was in Las Vegas several years ago and attended a racing experience, he could only fit into a GT3 Porsche. But it was that trip that helped fuel his love of fast cars. He later bought a 901.1 Porsche Cup so that he could compete in SCAA amateur racing about four years ago. Odrick has progressed to a successful racer in TransAm and will make his second career NASCAR Canada Series start on Saturday on the streets of Markham, where INDYCAR is the headliner this weekend. "We had to move the footbox back a few inches," Odrick said during a virtual news conference earlier this week. "The seat was good. The height was good. But just the length for the legs had to be adjusted. ... Sliding through the window is kind of difficult. "I have a former football injury where I tore my labrum in my right shoulder, so I have some scar tissue there. But I also have a little bit of extra flexibility that I might not be able to have unless I had that happen that allowed me to get into the car." Having played seven years in the NFL where he totaled 170 tackles (135 solo) for the Miami Dolphins and the Jacksonville Jaguars, the 2010 first-round pick from Penn State finished 22nd in his series debut last week at Trois-Rivieres. He was running well until getting collected in a wreck. "The competition was high, but we were so happy to see how competitive we were in a racing situation and how good the car was late in the race," Odrick said. Odrick would love to race Cup one day but he isn’t focused on it. Currently driving for BC Race Cars in NASCAR's stock car series in Canada, he just wants to keep competing no matter the series, whether it's in NASCAR’s international series or in any national series. He does feel he could compete on any level if given the time to properly train and prepare with a team. He has competed against some of the top NASCAR prospects on road courses. "Everybody says they want to get to Cup, especially with the young drivers I’m driving against in TransAm," Odrick said. "Sometimes when you’re competing against 15-, 16-year-old kids — whether it’s the Tristan McKees, Thomas Annunziatas and Brent Crews and stuff like that — sometimes you look and feel silly that your goals and aspirations are the same as a 16-year-old kid who hasn’t got a chance or is trying to actively prove themselves as a man. "Then you sit there. ‘Did I not do that with the NFL?’" With a home in Toronto near the clinic and a doctor who has treated him throughout his athletic career, Odrick said he wants to show he can switch to another sport. "I don’t miss playing the game," Odrick said about football. "It’s a young man’s game, and I think if I missed it at 38 years old, I’d be doing something wrong. ... Racing definitely has given my life new meaning, new purpose. "And it feels like a lot of the discipline that I missed as a young 20-something professional football player, I’m definitely thinking about a lot."