In 2017, the Stadium Super Trucks will be racing at the Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth. The event was announced on Saturday before the IndyCar Series resumed the rain-delayed Firestone 600 at the track.
In a conference held by series founder Robby Gordon and TMS owner Eddie Gossage, the two stated the race will be held as part of the IndyCar/NASCAR Camping World Truck Series weekend in June. The Stadium Super Truck race will be held on the same day as the IndyCar race on June 10, with the CWTS race the night before. The event will be the first SST race in Texas since X Games 2015 at Circuit of the Americas in Austin. The series, which also competed at the 2014 X Games, joined the Global RallyCross Championship as one of the events that did not return for the 2016 Games.
“When you think of Texas two things come to mind: trucks and things that are big,” Gordon stated. “Stadium Super Trucks gives you both, with the excitement of competitive door-to-door racing with big air.”
The race will be the first held on an oval asphalt track series history, with the layout expected to run through pit road, the frontstretch and the infield, while aluminum ramps will be added in various portions of the track. Last week, the SST competed at TMS’ Speedway Motorsports Inc. sister track Charlotte Motor Speedway’s dirt track, a weekend swept by defending series champion Sheldon Creed. As of the 2016 season, the series currently hosts support races for IndyCar at St. Petersburg, Long Beach, Detroit and Toronto.
The 2017 schedule plans to have eleven races across five countries, with the series continuing its tour as support events for IndyCar and the V8 Supercars in Australia.
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