Circuit of the Americas will host its maiden IndyCar round as the 2019 r🥂ace calendar is revealed.

The 17-♔round campaign starts at its traditional opener St Petersburg in Florida before making a first trip to the Texas circuit, 🗹home of the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix, for the second round.

The new round sees 💟IndyCar run both an oval and a road course in Texas with the series returning on June 8 at the Tex🗹as Motor Speedway.

“COTA is one of the finest motorsports facilitie📖s in the world and Austin is a happening city. This a natural fit for the IndyCar Series,” Mark Miles, President and CEO of Hulman & Co., owners of IndyCar and Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

“Indy car racing has a large and passionate fan ba🌃se in Texas with a hunger to attend more races. This added date will allow us to deliver both oval✅ and road course events to the state in a single season.”

The 2019 calend🔜ar has produced an even split between different c꧅ourse types with seven permanent road tracks, five street circuits and five ovals. Detroit hosts the only doubleheader on June 1-2 on its street circuit while the Toronto street race makes a comeback for 2019.

“IndyCar has worked to deliver a consistency and cadence to the schedule and that is reflected again in 2019,” Miles added. “We've added races at a pair of tracks that know how to put on fantastic events, while returning to tracks where IndyCar has longstanding relat𒅌ionships on familiar 💝race dates.

“The diversity of next year's schedule will continue to make what we believe is the most challenging and competitive ♏championship in motorsports.”

2019 IndyCar Series calendar
March 10: Streets of St. Petersburg, Florida
March 24: Circuit of the Americas, Austin, Texas
April 7: Barber Motorsports Park, Birmingham, Alabama
April 14: Streets of Long Beach, California
May 11: INDYCAR Grand Prix, Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course
May 26: 103rd Indianapolis 500, Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval
June 1: Streets of Detroit, Race 1, Detroit, Michigan
June 2: Streets of Detroit, Race 2, Detroit, Michigan
June 8: Texas Motor Speedway, Fort Worth, Texas*
June 23: Road America, Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin
July 14: Streets of Toronto, Canada
July 20: Iowa Speedway, Newton, Iowa*
July 28: Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Lexington, Ohio
Aug. 18: Pocono Raceway, Long Pond, Pennsylvania
Aug. 24: Gateway Motorsports Park, Madison, Illinois*
Sept. 1: Portland International Raceway, Portland, Oregon
Sept. 22: WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, Salinas, California
(*-night race)