INDIANAPOLIS — Next season, the Indy Pro Series will feature a record-tying 16 races divided evenly among eight ovals and eight road/street courses.
For the sixth consecutive season, the series will begin competition at Homestead-Miami Speedway March 29. The series then heads to the streets of St. Petersburg, Fla., April 5-6 for the first of four doubleheader race weekends.

2008 Indy Pro Schedule

March 29 Homestead-Miami Speedway, Homestead, Fla.; April 5 Streets of St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Fla.; April 6 Streets of St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Fla.; April 27 Kansas Speedway, Kansas City, Kan.; May 23 Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis, Ind.;  June 1 The Milwaukee Mile, West Allis, Wis.; June 21 Iowa Speedway, Newton, Iowa; July 5 Watkins Glen Int’l, Watkins Glen, N.Y. (same-day doubleheader); July 12 Nashville Superspeedway, Lebanon, Tenn.; July 19 Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Lexington, Ohio; July 20 Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Lexington, Ohio; Aug. 9 Kentucky Speedway, Sparta, Ky.; Aug. 23 Infineon Raceway, Sonoma, Calif.;  Aug. 24 Infineon Raceway, Sonoma, Calif.;  Sept. 7 Chicagoland Speedway, Joliet, Ill.

On April 27, Indy Pro Series teams will return to Kansas Speedway, site of the first race in series history, before beginning preparations for the series’ premier event, the Freedom 100, at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in May.
“We’re very excited to offer a 16-race schedule for the second consecutive season,” Indy Pro Series Executive Director Roger Bailey said. “Just like the IndyCar Series, our champion will have to succeed on all types of racing circuits from short ovals, speedways and the 2.5-mile oval at Indianapolis, to road and street courses.
“The opportunity to compete on Carb Day at Indianapolis in front of more than 100,000 fans is an experience that is second to none for our drivers, teams and sponsors.”
The Freedom 100 begins a stretch of three consecutive races on ovals before the season ends with alternating road-course and oval events. All road-course events will be doubleheader weekends, including the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, which debuted on the Indy Pro Series schedule with a single race in 2007, and a same-day doubleheader at Watkins Glen Int’l July 5.
“The doubleheader race weekends are very important to us,” Bailey said. “They allow us to maximize the amount of racing we do while helping us to contain costs.
“The inverted fields in the second races have allowed for a lot of passing and exciting racing for the fans.”
For the third consecutive year, the season will conclude at Chicagoland Speedway, which saw the closest finish in Indy Racing League history in 2007 when Logan Gomez beat Alex Lloyd by 0.0005-second.