The ‘Beijing Indy 600’ will be a non-championship event in 2016, to be held some five weeks after the season finale in Sonoma. The event is due to be held on October 22nd and 23rd, around a 2.56-mile street course in the city’s Fengtai District. The deal has been put together by Asia Region Development, whose CEO Joe Chrnelich was behind the stillborn IndyCar event at Qingdao four years ago. Beijing currently hosts the season-opening Formula E race, but the proposed IndyCar layout does not use the same streets. Mark Miles, CEO of IndyCar’s parent company Hulman & Company, has just returned from Beijing and told Motorsport.com: “For some months we have been involved in...
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