{"id":18195,"date":"2022-06-15T05:06:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T05:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/gone-forever-part-1-5-indycar-ovals-that-disappeared-from-the-face-of-the-earth"},"modified":"2022-10-09T05:57:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T05:57:52","slug":"gone-forever-part-1-5-indycar-ovals-that-disappeared-from-the-face-of-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/gone-forever-part-1-5-indycar-ovals-that-disappeared-from-the-face-of-the-earth","title":{"rendered":"Gone Forever, Part 1: 5 IndyCar Ovals That Disappeared from the Face of the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. open-wheel racing has competed over the years on countless racetracks, in this country and internationally. Today, we start a 3-part series on tracks that are only memories now. For more than 60 years (not including the 106-year history of the Indianapolis 500), the various forms of the top open-wheel racing series in the United States &#8212; USAC, CART, Champ Car, the Indy Racing League and since 2008, the merged IndyCar Series &#8212; have raced on dozens of tracks in dozens of cities across the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Australia, Japan and other points beyond. But, with time, and the changing tastes of racing fans, as well as needs of corporate sponsors, support of cities and overall finances, many of these locations have fallen off the schedule. In this series, which we&#8217;re calling &#8220;Gone Forever,&#8221; we go one step further by exploring some of the most significant tracks that have gone beyond losing a scheduled date on the racing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. open-wheel racing has competed over the years on countless racetracks, in this country and internationally. Today, we start a 3-part series on tracks that are only memories now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[373,1],"tags":[374,241,58],"class_list":["post-18195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorsports","category-news","tag-motorsports","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}