Indy Racing League on CBS
originally aired on CBS
The IndyCar Series is self-sanctioned by its parent company, IndyCar, LLC., which began in 1996 as the Indy Racing League. In 2008, the series merged with CART's successor, the Champ Car World Series. The series began to progressively downplay the former IRL name, changing its name to simply IndyCar for the 2008 season. Verizon Communications became title sponsor of the series through 2018. In January 2019, it was announced that Japanese communications company NTT would become title sponsor.