at Indianapolis Speedway

...could sports cars race at Indy soon for the first time?

Grand-Am announced today it will test at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Thursday, Sept. 3.

The test will feature ten cars from its “Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16”.

The Daytona Prototype teams should include defending series champion the TELMEX Lexus Riley, the GAINSCO Pontiac Riley, the SunTrust Ford Dallara, the Michael Shank Racing Ford Riley and the Spirit of Daytona Racing Porsche Coyote to be driven by 2004 Indianapolis 500 winner Buddy Rice.

The GT class teams include the Farnbacher Loles Racing Porsche GT3, Drinkin' Mate Pontiac GXP.R, Stevenson Motorsports Bryan Mark Financial Pontiac GXP.R, SpeedSource Castrol Syntec Mazda RX-8 and TRG Construct Corp/No Fear Energy Drinks/Voodoo Ride/K1 Speed Porsche GT3.

"We are very excited to see the performance of our sports cars at the legendary Indy Speedway," said Grand-Am President Roger Edmondson. "I look forward to determining the future possibility of our series competing at this iconic facility."

Fans  are invited to attend the test to see the teams testing on the F1 and MOTO-GP track road configurations. The test will gauge the interest of fans, teams and media in holding a sports car event at Indy.

The next Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series race will be the Aug. 29 Montreal 200 at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, in Montreal, Quebec (SPEED Live, 2 p.m. ET).