|| *Comments on Streets of Baltimore:* View the most recent comment <#24> | Post a comment <#post> 1. martin-n-rusty posted: 07.05.2011 - 6:00 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Seeing the track diagram, the Indy Cars will be going across light rail tracks, like Champ Car did at San Jose a few years back. Unless things have changed, the first is on a straight, but the 2nd is right before a corner near the ballpark. Why do I feel there will be some fail with this. 2. Greg Gruver posted: 08.31.2011 - 8:18 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Chicane before both Tracks. 3. RaceFanX posted: 09.06.2011 - 1:52 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Chicanes worked fine, there was no repeat of the CART race at San Jose 4. RaceFanX posted: 09.03.2012 - 12:13 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) ...well the first year anyway. The tracks became an issue for the 2012 race where initially the chicanes were removed. After a few practice wrecks with airborne cars they were put back in place for the race. The race takes place in Baltimore's famed Inner Harbor area. The track itself loops through the area passing such features as Camden Yards, the home of the MLB's Baltimore Orioles and the Baltimore Convention Center. The M&T Bank Stadium, home of the NFL's Baltimore Ravens, can typically be seen in the background when the races are televised. 5. Anonymous posted: 02.03.2015 - 5:18 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) Killed off by bureaucratic bumbling and poor promoters. 6. HarperThornett posted: 05.28.2019 - 4:22 pm Rate this comment: (1) (3) Hearing that the Whelen Modifieds will be running the Baltimore road course in 2020 if ARCA agrees to a double-header. 7. Timothy_Eklund posted: 05.28.2019 - 4:52 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) @6 not happening, you must be the guy who said kraus was going to RCR. 8. RaceFanX posted: 05.28.2019 - 10:11 pm Rate this comment: (3) (0) Why would a major American city shut down a good section of its downtown waterfront tourist area to run races for two minor league series when major level ones failed to catch one on a long-term basis? 9. GoPM21 posted: 05.29.2019 - 12:40 am Rate this comment: (0) (1) @8 A dress rehearsal for NASCAR in 2021, perhaps? I've seen rumblings about street races in Cup. Both informal posts and through the Fan Council. 10. ScottB posted: 05.29.2019 - 6:54 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) The teams in the Modified series don't even own road racing chassis. Are they expected to build a car from scratch for one race? That doesn't make sense, they aren't operating on that level of budgeting. 11. ScottB posted: 05.29.2019 - 6:55 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) A Cup race on a street course might be fun in the video gaming world, but not so much in reality. Fan council is a joke. 12. HarperThornett posted: 05.29.2019 - 12:19 pm Rate this comment: (0) (3) This mayn't be that far fetched after all. Being invited twice in 1997, the NASCAR Featherlite Modifieds successfully brought out their road course chassis at Watkins Glen from 1996-2000 until the ARCA Racing Series outbid them in 2001 for rights to the road course scene. As for Baltimore's racing scene, the Indy Car Series successfully coupled up with AARN's Indoor Auto Racing in the Fall of 2012 until a "train tracks issue" arose with the insurance company, as #1 stated, prior to my diving career. 13. RaceFanX posted: 05.29.2019 - 12:41 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) The Mods ran at the Glen and Lime Rock Park back in the day but with a series like this I'm pretty most teams just have one car and set it up differently as opposed to having a whole separate road course racer. That said I still cannot see Baltimore shutting down the area around Camden Yards during baseball season for an ARCA race. ARCA has run a street course before, they did Des Moines in 1994 on the SCCA Trans-Am undercard, but neither ARCA or the mods is big enough to justify shutting down a major metropolis. If they were going to do a road course race in this part of the country why wouldn't they just use VIR? 14. GoPM21 posted: 05.29.2019 - 4:48 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @13 MLB teams do have extended road trips ya know. They could simply schedule the race when the Orioles are out of town. 15. ScottB posted: 05.29.2019 - 5:14 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) "If they were going to do a road course race in this part of the country why wouldn't they just use VIR?" Right, that would make a lot more sense. The push for the Baltimore location is likely coming more from the politicians & promoters there, not from the NASCAR side. The topic of an urban street course keeps popping up every few years, though. 16. Eklund posted: 05.29.2019 - 5:29 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Either way this is probably not happening as I have never seen any rumors about this track returning 17. OangeWaffle43 posted: 05.29.2019 - 5:29 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) IDK, I think Cup should do Long Beach haha 18. Corey posted: 05.29.2019 - 5:53 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) @14 You're still talking 4 months of interruption just to set up the course. 19. JunksRadio posted: 05.30.2019 - 7:27 am Rate this comment: (0) (3) #6/12, Thanks for the info Harper. I would love to see NASCAR, at least Xfinity, run the Baltimore Circuit in 2020. The Sports Junkies 1067FM DC also stated that if Baltimore doesn't live up to par, the backup plan is downtown Cleveland / Burke Lakefront Airport as the next road course 15-team parlay. 20. Red_Byrd posted: 05.30.2019 - 9:27 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) "If they were going to do a road course race in this part of the country why wouldn't they just use VIR?" Not sure how well the infrastructure has been developed yet, but Dominion Raceway is much closer to DC/Baltimore than VIR, which is almost in North Carolina (and in the middle of nowhere, to boot). 21. BaltimoreApproachPotomacDeparture posted: 05.31.2019 - 9:03 am Rate this comment: (0) (4) VIR happens to be near South Boston, but is still in the middle of nowhere. Dominion Raceway happens to be next to a landfill and is still in the middle of nowhere. They literally took jersey barriers from I-95 to make the walls around Dominion. Unsightly, hard to get to. I would pay big monies to see NASCAR run the Baltimore Grand Prix Course in conjunction with Indy Lights as long as they keep the Light Rail tracks as an obstacle. 22. rm posted: 06.01.2019 - 4:50 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) None of this is happening, if/when ARCA & Mods are together next year it sure as hell won't be on a road course, much less a dead street course. Can't believe this many people fell for the latest Malycke troll job 23. TwoPercent posted: 06.03.2019 - 9:58 am Rate this comment: (0) (2) Simon Pagenaud wins the 2013 Streets of Baltimore Indy Car race, then goes onto win many more, including this year's running of the 2019 Indy 500 and a couple gallons of milk! 24. Jericohol14 posted: 01.02.2021 - 7:43 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) This thread uhh... whiffed on a few predictions. No racing is likely to return to the streets of Charm City for a very long time, which is unfortunate because the course was actually pretty good. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: