The organizers of the Music Metropolis Grand Prix held on the streets of Nashville and the NTT IndyCar Collection have accomplished a brand new multi-year settlement that may construct upon the preliminary three-year contract that concludes with this weekend’s go to to Tennessee.

As RACER lately wrote, the Nashville race will transfer in 2024 from its present place on the calendar to September 13-15, when it should host the IndyCar season finale and function the placement for the collection’ championship banquet on Sept. 16.

Subsequent 12 months’s Nashville occasion will characteristic a revised structure with the fewest variety of corners of any street or avenue course, and which contains the town’s hottest avenue. In accordance with IndyCar, “The brand new 2.17-mile, seven-turn circuit will proceed throughout the enduring Korean Battle Veterans Memorial Bridge and route instantly previous the Nation Music Corridor of Fame. The racecourse will run by the town’s honkytonk district, residence to bars owned by the largest names in nation music. Every day of racing will culminate with a takeover of Broadway and an enormous avenue celebration that solely Nashville can throw, that includes reside performances by lots of music’s largest artists.”

Penske Leisure CEO Mark Miles is assured the shift of season-ending venues from WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca to Nashville shall be a constructive for the collection.

“Nashville and the Music Metropolis Grand Prix group are able to host a can’t miss, action-packed occasion that transforms the NTT IndyCar Collection season finale and elevates it to a fair greater peak on the worldwide stage,” Miles stated.

“Subsequent 12 months’s race in Nashville shall be an unbridled celebration of essentially the most fierce and aggressive motorsport on the planet, set in opposition to the backdrop of an revolutionary and breathtaking stage that features one of many premier world leisure districts on the earth. We’ll have extra to share quickly on a whole weekend of actions, each on and off monitor, that totally faucets into the rising attain and relevance of an ascendant and marquee metropolis.”

Miles additionally confirmed Laguna Seca’s return, which RACER expects to shift to the early phases of the 2024 calendar.

“WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca stays a beloved, historic venue for our groups, drivers and followers in an vital and scenic market,” he stated.