IndyCar Will Run a Street Race Around the Dallas Cowboys Stadium

IndyCar announced on Monday that it's adding yet another major street circuit race for 2026. The latest closed course is in Arlington, a suburb of Dallas most notable as the home of both the Dallas Cowboys and the Texas Rangers.

The event is being billed as a partnership between IndyCar, the two teams, and the city of Arlington itself. The still-unrevealed track layout will be 2.73 miles long, winding past both stadiums and through what the city calls the Arlington Entertainment District.

The Arlington race will join a growing trend of race tracks built around football or baseball stadiums. Since these areas are already built to hold major events and regularly see road closures to support these events, they make for relatively easy locations to build a street circuit. The Texas race will be the fourth such venue used by IndyCar since the introduction of its current car in 2012, joining defunct races in Baltimore and Houston plus a street circuit race in Nashville currently on hold as the Tennessee Titans build a new stadium over the former track layout. Formula 1's Miami Autodrome is also built around an NFL stadium, although that layout is closer to a semi-permanent road course than a traditional street circuit.

Arlington's first IndyCar race weekend will kick off in March 2026, around the time that the series typically begins its seasons. It will effectively replace the category's tradition of racing at Texas Motor Speedway, a long-time IndyCar venue outside Dallas that disappeared from the series calendar after the 2023 season. IndyCar also briefly raced in both Houston and the Austin area at different points over the past decade, but the series does not have a race scheduled anywhere in Texas in 2025.

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