The Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg will open the 2024 IndyCar season on Sunday, March 10. The season will conclude on September 15 at Nashville Superspeedway. That is a change from prior years, when IndyCar’s Nashville finale had taken place on an 11-turn street circuit since 2021, but the 2024 course was set to be redesigned and would have included just seven turns to accommodate construction of the new home of the Tennessee Titans. This will be the first IndyCar race at Nashville Superspeedway since 2008, when Scott Dixon won for the third year in a row. Let’s check out the IndyCar betting odds for each driver to win the 2024 championship as well as the schedule and some observations about the changes.
IndyCar Betting Analysis: 2024 Calendar and Odds to Win for the Top 10 Drivers
- Alex Palou +500
- Patricio O’Ward +610
- Josef Newgarden +740
- Scott Dixon +800
- Marcus Ericsson +940
- Alexander Rossi +1025
- Scott MacLaughlin +1125
- Will Power +1375
- Kyle Kirkwood +1700
- David Malukas +1700
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This season will feature seven oval races, the most in an IndyCar season since 2011. Of the last eight races, six are on ovals; the only other oval on the schedule is the Indianapolis 500. Four of the six races are the doubleheaders at Iowa Speedway and the Milwaukee Mile.
The track that may have had the most exciting IndyCar race in 2023 – Texas Motor Speedway – will not host an IndyCar race in 2024. It looked like TMS would be on the schedule for the 28th consecutive year, and the reason given was conflicts with other event dates. So TMS might return to the calendar in 2025, but IndyCar has also indicated openness to other venues in Texas so that they would not abandon that huge fan base.
As far as this year’s title chase, Alex Palou is the favorite for a reason. He won in 2023 as the first champion to win five races since 2016, and he became the first driver to lock up a title before the last race of the season since 2007. He also finished an entire season finishing no worse than eighth, the first driver to accomplish that in 101 years. However, it’s been 13 years since any driver repeated as IndyCar champion; Dario Franchitti (who also drove the No. 10 Honda for Chip Ganassi Racing) won the title three straight years, 2009-2011.
Palou won the title in 2021, and he finished in a tie for fourth in 2022. He bounced back to win the title again in 2023. If you want another bullet point for his dominance, you could take all of his wins from 2021 and 2023 and turn them into second-place finishes, and he would still have had enough points to win.
2024 Schedule
| March 10 | Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg |
| March 24 | Thermal $1 Million Challenge |
| April 21 | Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach |
| April 28 | Children’s of Alabama Indy Grand Prix |
| May 11 | Sonsio Grand Prix |
| May 26 | 108th Running of the Indianapolis 500 |
| June 2 | Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix |
| June 9 | Road America |
| June 23 | Firestone Grand Prix of Monterey |
| July 7 | Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio |
| July 13-14 | Hy-Vee IndyCar Race Weekend Races 1 & 2 |
| July 21 | Honda Indy Toronto |
| August 17 | Bommarito Automotive Group 500 |
| August 25 | Bitnile.com Grand Prix of Portland |
| August 31-September 1 | Milwaukee Mile 250 Races 1 & 2 |
| September 15 | Big Machine Music City Grand Prix |
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2023 IndyCar Season
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The 2023 IndyCar campaign will consist of 17 races, 13 of which will be broadcast on NBC. The opening race is on Sunday, March 5, in St. Petersburg, Florida. The 107th Indianapolis 500 will take place on Sunday, May 28, and the season will come to a close on Sunday, September 10, in Monterey, California. There are eight races in the last nine weeks of the season, which means that sports betting on the sport will be possible just about every week of the late summer. IndyCar racing is growing in popularity, and this is reflected by the fact that 13 of the races will appear on network television. This is just the fourth time in the last 50 seasons that this many races have been on a national broadcast. Let’s take a look at the schedule, as well as some of the drivers set to return next year for your IndyCar betting.
| Date | Venue | Television |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday, March 5 | Streets of St. Petersburg | NBC / Peacock |
| Sunday, April 2 | Texas Motor Speedway | |
| Sunday, April 16 | Streets of Long Beach | |
| Sunday, April 30 | Barber Motorsports Park | |
| Saturday, May 13 | Indy500 (road course) | |
| Sunday, May 28 | Indy500 (oval) | |
| Sunday, June 4 | Streets of Detroit | |
| Sunday, June 18 | Road America | USA / Peacock |
| Sunday, July 2 | Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course | |
| Sunday, July 16 | Streets of Toronto | Peacock |
| Saturday, July 22 | Iowa Speedway | NBC / Peacock |
| Sunday, July 23 | Iowa Speedway | |
| Sunday, August 6 | Streets of Nashville | |
| Saturday, August 12 | Indianapolis Motor Speedway (road course) | USA / Peacock |
| Sunday, August 27 | World Wide Technology Raceway | NBC / Peacock |
| Sunday, Sept. 3 | Portland International Raceway | |
| Sunday, Sept. 10 | WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca |
Driver News
Alex Palou will stay with Chip Ganassi Racing (CGR) for one more season after a lengthy (and public) dispute about his contract. He had been trying to head to McLaren and get more money, but that will not happen until the 2024 campaign at least.
Scott Dixon is likely headed to retirement after 2023, as his contract with CGR expires at the end of this season, and his tenure in the sport and his age suggest that he will likely be moving on.
Marcus Ericsson has that big win at the Indianapolis 500 and his contention for a title in 2022 on his resume, and he is in the middle of a multi-year deal with CGR, so he’s not likely to be going anywhere anytime soon.
Jimmie Johnson struggled in his transition from NASCAR to IndyCar, and he does not have a deal going into 2023 yet. CGR and his sponsor, Carvana, would like him to return, simply because of the interest he brings, but he is also a veteran driver with a lot of miles, and he is still pondering how much he wants to push it again next year.
Colton Herta has dreams of racing in Formula 1, and he has a deal with McLaren as a testing and development driver for the F1 circuit. It remains to be seen how this will impact his IndyCar participation next year. He does not have the points that he needs for an F1 license, so it’s likelier that he will wait to make the jump until 2024.
Kyle Kirkwood will move to one of Andretti Autosport’s top cars, the #27, after a rookie year that saw him crash multiple times. His performance at the Indy Lights in 2021 still wows fans of the sport, so it will be interesting to see how he does in a faster car.
Romain Grosjean enters his third season in IndyCar after coming over from F1.
Devlin Defrancesco did not run all that well as a rookie, but he is returning for a second crack at things in 2023.
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