One and done: IndyCar circuit not returning to New Orleans

Add NOLA to the long list of failed IndyCar venues

The IndyCar circuit will not be returning to Avondale, Louisiana in 2016, likely making April's Indy Grand Prix of Louisiana a one-and-done affair.

NOLA Motorsports Park president Kristen Engeron said Thursday that IndyCar official had confirmed within the past week the race would be left off the 2016 calendar. The event was plagued by rain, and two different companies filed federal lawsuits against the Avondale racetrack alleging they had not been paid the full amount they had been promised.

“(IndyCar) didn't go into a lot of details," Engeron said before referring all other questions to Joe Bruno, a lawyer representing the NOLA Motorsports Host Committee, the subject of the lawsuit. "We are continuing to talk with them about getting us on the schedule for 2017 and the years after that."

NOLA Motorsports Park owner Laney Chouest, who opened the venue in 2012, admitted the big race did not work out as planned.

"We had a track rental agreement. I got nothing on it and the event did some damage to the facility," he said. "It cost me a whole bunch of money, so that's pretty much what I know. There was a whole lot of confusion, but I just supplied the venue. I'm not the promoter."