2010 IndyCar Schedule Announcement

UPDATE (5:26 PM): The series will have 9 street/road courses in 2010 and 8 ovals - a change from 10 ovals and 7 street/road courses in 2009. Same number of races, but losing Richmond and Milwaukee tentatively. Gaining Brazil and Barber.

The schedule, as set out by IndyCar.com:

• Sunday, March 14 - Brazil (location TBA)
  
• Sunday, March 28 - Streets of St. Petersburg, Fla.
  
• Sunday, April 11 - Barber Motorsports Park
  
• Sunday, April 18 - Streets of Long Beach, Calif.
  
• Saturday, May 1 - Kansas Speedway
  
• Sunday, May 30 - Indianapolis Motor Speedway
  
• Saturday, June 12* - Texas Motor Speedway
  
• Sunday, June 20 - Iowa Speedway
  
• Sunday, July 4 - Watkins Glen International
  
• Sunday, July 18 - Streets of Toronto
  
• Sunday, July 25 - Edmonton City Centre Airport
  
• Sunday, August 8 - Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course
  
• Sunday, August 22 - Infineon Raceway
  
• Saturday, August 28* - Chicagoland Speedway
  
• Labor Day Weekend - Kentucky Speedway
  
• Saturday, September 18 - Twin Ring Motegi
  
• Saturday, October 2 - Homestead-Miami Speedway
  

Click here to watch the release of the 2010 IndyCar schedule.

Looking over the tweets from Curt Cavin, some of the schedule looks remarkably similar:

• Watkins Glen keeps the 4th of July date.
• Texas is still 2 weeks after Indianapolis (leaving a spot open for Milwaukee to get its act together).
• New Hampshire is once again denied a date (hopefully this is rectified soon).

I'll have more thoughts after the official schedule release.