File this one as “news you don’t want to hear before the biggest race of the season but news that was perhaps inevitable to come anyway and maybe it’s good it got dumped now.”
INDYCAR has filed a lawsuit against the organizers of the canceled Grand Prix of Boston, which was axed in late April.
The lawsuit story first appeared on ESPN.com per Bob Pockrass. INDYCAR has now issued a statement to reporters which reads:
The Boston organizers were Boston Grand Prix LLC and the race was planned on a five-year contract, Hulman &. Co. CEO Mark Miles - the head of INDYCAR’s parent company - said when the Boston race was first announced in May 2015 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Following the Boston cancellation, INDYCAR has pulled a minor miracle together to salvage a replacement round at Watkins Glen International on the same Labor Day weekend, Sept. 1-4.
The hope here, of course, is that this lawsuit news doesn’t overshadow the preparation and buildup to this week’s 100th Indianapolis 500 presented by PennGrade Motor Oil.