IndyCar at Pocono Raceway 直面するs uncertain 未来
LONG POND, Pa. (AP) - IndyCar and Pocono Raceway could be 長，率いるd toward another 分裂（する）.
The 跡をつける has no 取引，協定 for the open-wheel series to return for an eighth straight year in 2020, and another break could be on the horizon after Sunday's race. IndyCar returned to Pocono in 2013 after a 24-year absence for the first race of a three-year 契約.
Pocono CEO Nick Igdalsky said both 味方するs have continued to talk about the 未来 of the series at the 跡をつける.
"I did float them the idea of 存在 an every couple of years stop, every three years," Igdalsky said. "I don't want IndyCar to lose touch with the Northeast. I don't want IndyCar to lose touch with the Pocono fanbase. I don't want Pocono to lose touch with IndyCar. It's part of our history."
IndyCar's return to Pocono has been marred by the death of driver Justin Wilson from 傷害s 苦しむd in the 2015 race and Robert Wickens 苦しむd a spinal 傷害 last August in a 衝突，墜落.
The race was held around the July 4 週末 the first two years and moved to an August date in 2015.
FILE - In this Aug. 19, 2018, とじ込み／提出する photo, Alexander Rossi (27) leads the field after a 再開する during the IndyCar 自動車 race at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pa. IndyCar and Pocono Raceway could be 長，率いるd toward another 分裂（する）. The 跡をつける has no 取引，協定 for the open-wheel series to return for an eighth straight year in 2020, and another break could be on the horizon after Sunday's race. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
"If it 作品, it 作品," Igdalsky said. "If it doesn't work, if it's not the best thing for their 操作／手術, if it's not the best 取引，協定 for our 操作／手術, then it is what it is. I want their league to be successful."
This isn't the first time Pocono and open-wheel racing have reached a 十字路／岐路. During the days of the dueling USAC and CART series in the late 1980s, Pocono 跡をつける 創立者 Joseph Mattioli 手配中の，お尋ね者 out. Mattioli, who died in 2012, chose not to 捜し出す a new 取引，協定 after 1989.
Pocono Raceway, a 2 1/2-mile tri-oval 跡をつける, has had two NASCAR 週末s on the schedule for １０年間s. The 跡をつける moves to one NASCAR race 週末 next year, featuring a Cup Series twin 法案.
IndyCar could 解放（する） its 2020 schedule next month.
"IndyCar still is in the 過程 of 完結するing the 2020 schedule, and as it relates to Pocono, although no 決定／判定勝ち（する） has been made, we have been communicating with Pocono Raceway's leadership and look 今後 to 存在 there for our race when we will speak again about our 未来," IndyCar (n)役員／(a)執行力のある Stephen Starks said.
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