DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Crown Royal International Race of Champions (IROC) Series officials announced today that it will hold one of its 2006 races on a road course for the first time in 14 years. As part of its 30th anniversary season, the Crown Royal IROC Series will race on the famed road course at Daytona International Speedway on Thursday, June 29, in conjunction with the NASCAR Cup race weekend.
The Daytona road course event is Race Three of the four-race invitational all-star series, which also includes events held at one superspeedway and two intermediate tracks. The series will make return engagements to three of the tracks it competed at in 2005. The season-opener will be contested at Daytona on the 2.5-mile, high-bank tri-oval on Friday, February 17, followed by a pair of intermediate tracks: Texas Motor Speedway on Friday, April 7 and the season finale at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Saturday, October 28.
Daytona and the Crown Royal IROC Series share plenty of history, with its road course being the site of the inaugural 1973-74 IROC Series season finale. Legendary open-wheel driver Mark Donohue won that race and solidified his IROC championship in its first season. A road course event was a regular stop in the series from 1973 to 1991, with NASCAR driver Rusty Wallace winning the last road course event at Watkins Glen (N.Y.) in 1991.
The 2006 driver field will be announced in mid-January in conjunction with NASCAR testing at DIS. Mark Martin captured two race victories (Daytona, Richmond) en route to winning the 2005 Crown Royal IROC Series title and $1 million first-place purse.
Schedule Race One, Friday, Feb. 17 Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach, Fla. 100 miles (40 laps) on 2.5-mile high-banked tri-oval Television broadcast: SPEED Channel - Live
Race Two, Friday, April 7 Texas Motor Speedway, Ft. Worth, Texas 100.5 miles (67 laps) on 1.5-mile high-banked tri-oval Television broadcast: SPEED Channel - TBD
Race Three, Thursday, June 29 Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach, Fla. 74.76 miles (21 laps) on 3.56-mile road course Television broadcast: SPEED Channel - TBD
Race Four, Saturday, Oct. 28 Atlanta Motor Speedway, Atlanta, Ga. 100.1 miles (65 laps) on 1.54-mile oval Television broadcast: SPEED Channel - TBD
Yeah, I have the new schedule up on the LROC site now.
I Didn't make an LROC forum since there's only a few people out of the league participating during the year so didn't think there would be much posts there.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Crown Royal International Race of Champions (IROC) Series officials announced today that it will hold one of its 2006 races on a road course for the first time in 14 years. As part of its 30th anniversary season, the Crown Royal IROC Series will race on the famed road course at Daytona International Speedway on Thursday, June 29, in conjunction with the NASCAR Cup race weekend. 
