Overheard in Long Beach – 6

Word here in Long Beach is that rather than team the Motegi race with the Surfers race next year on back-to-back weekends, the Motegi race may take the Kansas race weekend the week following Long Beach. The two reasons given were 1) Spring date equity for Motegi and the desire not to upset Bernie Ecclestone who has an F1 race in October in Japan. No word on what date Kansas would take.