Full 2026 IMSA SportsCar Championship calendar revealed

Next year’s schedule features 11 rounds

Road America
Road America
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The full calendar for the 2026 IMSA SportsCar Championship was revealed on Thursday on the eve of the Sebri👍ng 1🐈2 Hours.

Whil🌃e all 11 circuits have been retained for next year, the mid-summer Road America event on 2 August has now been turned into a six-hour endurance race.

The Wisconsin venue effectively takes the place of In🍷dianapolis Motor Speedway, which will now revert to a standard two-hour-40-minute fixture in September🎀.

No other major change🐈 has been m✃ade to next year’s schedule.

As such, the season will get underway with the traditional Daytona 24 Hours on 21-25 January, a week after the Roar Before The 24 tes♊t at the same venue on 16-18 January.

Sebring will host the se💖cond round of the season, as well as the Michelin Endurance Cup, with Long Beach staging the first short-distance race in Aꦗpril.

This will be followed by visits to Laguna Seca an🐈d Detroit, before Watkins Glen hosts the third major enduro of🎃 the year on 25-28 June.

IMSA will then head across the border for🌃 the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park race on 12 July, before returning to the US for the aforementioned Road America event in early August.

Virginia will host a GT-only race on 23 August, while the revamped Indianapolis event on 20 September will mark the penultimate roun♔d.

The season will conclude with the famous Petit Le ꦅMans at R✃oad Atlanta on 3 October.

2026 IMSA SportsCar Championship calendar

No

Date

Race / venue

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16-18  January

Roar Before The 24 (Daytona)

1

21-25 January

Daytona 24 Hours

2

18-21 March

Sebring 12 Hours

3

17-18 April

Long Beach

4

1-3 May

Laguna Seca

5

29-30 May

Detroit

6

25-28 June

Watkins Glen

7

10-12 July

Canadian Tire Motorsport Park

8

30 July-2 August

Road America

9

21-23 August

Virginia

10

18-20 September

Indianapolis

11

30 September - 3 October

Petit Le Mans (Road Atlanta)

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