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IndyCar will relocate its single round in Canada next year from downtown Toronto to the nearby city of Markham, and junior single-seater action will likely be on the undercard.
There will be matches at the 2026 FIFA World Cup played in Toronto, which will render the area which IndyCar and its feeder series usually race on unusable during the summer when it usually visits.
This prompted a search across the province of Ontario to find an alternative place for IndyCar to race, and the proposal of a brand new street circuit in Markham not only got the nod but also negotiated a five-year hosting deal.
The event promoter Green Savoree confirmed that “supporting race events like the USF Pro championships will be considered” and should they be added to the event they would be “announced at a later date by those respective series with their 2026 season schedule announcements”.
Toronto hosted Indy Nxt from 1986 to 1999, then again in 2001 and from 2009 to 2019. IndyCar’s primary feeder series was due to continue racing in Canada into this decade, but the COVID-19 pandemic led to the cancellation of planned rounds.
On the rung below is USF Pro 2000, which first visited Toronto in 2007, then from 2012 to present bar the two pandemic-disrupted seasons and 2017. The fourth-tier USF2000 series has had a similar presence in Toronto, having been there since 2013 and only absent during the pandemic.
Atlantics, which for a long time was an Indy Nxt-rivalling championship on the second tier of the single-seater ladder, had races in Toronto from 1990 to 1998 and then from 2000 to 2007.