When Randy Bernard was first hired as CEO of IndyCar, the one comment Robin Miller had was the man needs to learn how to lie. Come the final weekend of September 2012, I think he has.
On the eve of the 2013 IndyCar schedule announcement, you have got reporters from the USA Today and Associated Press reporting different schedules, Robin Miller unbelievably quiet and Randy Bernard saying none of the "leaked" schedules are correct.
What have we been hearing? From Jeff Olson of the USA Today, 19 races at 16 venues, doubleheaders at Detroit, Toronto and Sonoma, long gaps in July and August with a month off between Baltimore and Houston and Fontana ON THE SAME NIGHT as the NASCAR chase race in Charlotte.
Jenna Fryer from the AP said Houston will be a doubleheader, not Sonoma, and some Brazilian source is saying Providence will happen the week after Mid-Ohio. Marshall Pruett of SPEED, reported the season will begin a few weeks earlier.
Kentucky Speedway was thrown in the mixer earlier this week, with a possibility of an unprecedented IndyCar-Nationwide Series double in September. The Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car series announced it would be going to Austin on Saturday March 2, Kansas Saturday August 17 and not going back to Montreal. With Edmonton falling off the schedule, one must consider the possibility of Octane Motorsports making IndyCar apart of the Montreal NASCAR weekend.
OPINION: Montreal and Kansas seem like a stretch, but Austin makes sense. The thought of two two week breaks and a month break is, in my opinion, the opposite of what IndyCar should be doing.
The good news for IndyCar, nobody seems to know what is going to happen. After years of publicly discussing negotiations, could this be the year Bernard kept the cards to his chest in hopes of surprising us all? Or are we going to hear more groaning that the series blew it? We are going to have turn on SPEED at nine o'clock tomorrow night to find out.
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