{"id":76252,"date":"2025-12-08T23:55:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T23:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/76252\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T23:55:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T23:55:35","slug":"2026-st-petersburg-event-date-set-for-feb-27-march-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/76252\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 St. Petersburg Event Date Set for Feb. 27-March 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next year\u2019s Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg presented by RP Funding is scheduled for Feb. 27-March 1, 2026, as the dates were approved unanimously via a resolution at the City of St. Petersburg (Florida) City Council meeting held May 1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 2025 event was another tremendous success with record crowds across the three days,\u201d said Kim Green, co-owner, chairman and CEO of event organizers Green Savoree Racing Promotions. \u201cAfter consulting with the City of St. Petersburg staff and multiple stakeholders, INDYCAR and our Green Savoree Racing Promotions teams agree continuing this great downtown tradition on similar dates is optimal. We look forward to planning for and hosting the Grand Prix on the same weekend in 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Three-time NTT INDYCAR SERIES champion Alex Palou won for the first time in his career on the streets of St. Petersburg at this year\u2019s race March 2.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the 2026 Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg presented by RP Funding will go on sale in the fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Next year\u2019s Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg presented by RP Funding is scheduled for Feb. 27-March 1,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-76252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}