Six-time IndyCar champion Scott Dixon is eagerly anticipating heading back to Milwaukee in IndyCar for the first time since 2015.
The event will be a doubleheader at the Milwaukee Mile and make up the penultimate round of the championship.
Dixon said: “(I’m) excited to go back to Milwaukee, I’m excited to see how the partnerships work. I love the circuit, I love the track. I love how difficult it is.
“So there’s so many positives. I just hope it’s a great execution. I think it’s going to be a fantastic show. It’s just hoping that we can have a sell out and make it what it’s worth.
“I think we have a great kind of roadmap with what they’ve done, and at Iowa with Hyvee, and things like that. So if we can create partnerships like that, it’s going to be huge. But I love the circuit. It’s cool.”
Despite the New Zealander’s optimism ahead of Milwaukee’s return, the Chip Ganassi Racing driver isn’t overly excited about the prospect of a doubleheader.
“I don’t think I’m super excited about a doubleheader on another short track, but that’s the way it is,” he added matter-of-factly
IndyCar will also run a non-championship $1 million dollar challenge at The Thermal Club after the opening round of the season at St. Petersburg.
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The event will feature a qualifying session and two heat races, with the top six from each heat advancing to an All-Star showcase.
Dixon spoke of his mixed feelings about the event and expressed his concerns about the Firestone tyres being too durable to create an exciting spectacle.
“I don’t think they’ve finalised a lot of this stuff, just how they’re going to break it down. The difficult part, I think if the feature race becomes a sprint race, unless you got a super soft tyre that degrades a lot, then that will create some action.
“It’s not a track that’s going to be easily passable, so maybe you’d be waiting for some mistakes. And things like that. I don’t know.
“I think that the idea is great, and I think it’s an idea that could really expand in other areas, especially new circuits that we go to, maybe offseason stuff.
“So I think the platform is really good. We’ll just have to see how to make it work well to create the spectacle that it needs to be.
“Kudos to everybody who’s been involved to create something like that. And that’s the starting point. So I think everybody’s really excited about it.”
