It was bump day for the Indy 500. The Indianapolis 500 is now a summer event. The Monster Mile could be set for a monster-sized NASCAR weekend spectacle of racing.
And a supersized shakeup of the schedule looms whenever NASCAR and IndyCar resume in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The Indianapolis 500 was postponed Thursday until Aug.
23 and won't run on Memorial Day weekend for the first time since 1945. The Indy 500 was positioned as the middle race of a Triple Crown of racing on Memorial Day that kicked the biggest day of motorsports off with Formula One's Grand Prix of Monaco and ended with NASCAR's Coca-Cola 600.