Despite being the oldest active racetrack, Indianapolis features a road course only since 2000. Tony George, the owner, began a programme of diversification in the 1990s. A new roval was built: a track that combines an oval and a road course, in this case driven the opposite way from the oval. The last turn was the banked one, then the track extended on the full finish straight up to a chicane and some medium-speed corners led to the second longest straight, ending with a sharp corner. So, two hairpins and a last turn to rejoin the oval. That same year, new garages and a new control tower were built to accommodate F1. Michael Schumacher won the first F1 roval race, the first race ever to drive on the brickyard the opposite way. In 2002, that same Schumacher tried to stage a dead-heat finish, but leaving the win to his teammate Rubens Barrichello by mistake. Then, in 2005, tyres suffering on the banking led the Michelin supplied teams to withdraw. The race took place anyway with j...