Packed house on Belle Isle. Awesome to see a huge crowd for one final @Indycar race on the island before we move this race to downtown Detroit.
— Nick Yeoman (@NYeoman) June 5, 2022
Shoutout to Motor City race fans!
Will Power won yesterday's NTT IndyCar Series Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix, which marked the "final IndyCar race on Belle Isle’s 13-turn, 2.3-mile street course." The race "will return to downtown Detroit next year" after it had been on Belle Isle since '92. Driver Alexander Rossi: "I will be sad to see it go, but I think this series thrives on events in cities. You see that with Nashville coming on, and obviously St. Pete, Toronto, Long Beach. It will be a great thing for the series, but from a driver’s standpoint, I will certainly miss this place.” Scott Dixon: “I’m looking forward to the next generation and going downtown. I think there’s always been some issue with that bridge connecting this place and getting people here, so hopefully that changes" (DETROIT NEWS, 6/6). Full weekend attendance was expected to hit nearly 100,000 (WXYZ.com, 6/5).
