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IndyCar's long-delayed return to Toronto highlights a packed weekend of racing.

IMSA - Lime Rock Park Saturday, July 16th - 3:00 p.m. ET - Peacock (airing on USA later today)

IMSA's GT classes head to Lime Rock Park for what the new-for-2022 GTD Pro class makes an odd race: An IMSA event with only one specification of car. Yes, since both GTD Pro and GTD draw from the same GT3 rule set, this is effectively a GT3-only race.

With one Mercedes choosing to go back down to the pro-am GTD class and all part-time cars choosing not to run this event, the headline GTD Pro class boasts just five cars. Pfaff's No. 9 Porsche will start on pole and lead the group that this weekend includes just their car, the No. 3 Corvette C8.R, the No. 14 Lexus RC-F, the No. 23 Heart of Racing Aston Martin Vantage, and the No. 25 BMW M4 GT3.

NASCAR - New Hampshire Motor Speedway Sunday, July 17th - 3:00 p.m. ET - USA

NASCAR's lone visit to New Hampshire is once again the last flat 1-mile track on the schedule before the championship-deciding season finale at Phoenix. Although both Richmond and Darlington share some characteristics with the track that will host the winner-take-all race, NHMS is still the last best chance teams expecting to be major contenders have to prepare their flat mile packages for Phoenix.

With Tyler Reddick recently making yet another first-time Cup Series winner, NHMS also represents a last-best-chance for strong drivers at elite teams like Ryan Blaney that expect to be playoff contenders but have not yet won a race to grab a win at one of the more predictable tracks on the schedule. Every other event left on the regular season calendar is a big intermediate, a pack racing track, a short track, or a road course. NHMS is the most predictable race left this season.

IndyCar - Toronto Sunday, July 17th - 3:00 p.m. ET - Peacock (streaming only)

In the single strangest plotline in racing this year, reigning IndyCar champion Alex Palou is now signed with both Chip Ganassi Racing and McLaren for 2023. Palou has refused to discuss the particulars of the dispute, but in the same day CGR announced that they had exercised their existing option for the 2023 IndyCar season and McLaren announced that they had signed Palou to their team without specifying what series he would run. For now, the situation is stable enough that Palou will continue racing with CGR and fighting for his second championship. That could change at any time as this continues.

This race is unique in another way, too. This is the first-ever IndyCar race locked to NBC's Peacock streaming platform. That means you'll need to find it on that app, and, unless you are an existing Cox or Xfinity cable customer, will need to subscribe to one of Peacock's paid tiers for the race.

All of that casts a dramatic shadow over a big moment for IndyCar, the category's first race at Toronto since the COVID-19 pandemic began. The street circuit in Canada's biggest city is one of the most successful temporary tracks in the world, so all of racing should be pleased to see it has survived two years off.