Last week the IndyCars were screaming around the Indianapolis oval at 200mph, this weekend they’re street racing in Detroit.

The Detroit race returned to the IndyCar schedule last year but this weekend’s event has undergone several major changes. And it needed to, as last year’s race was cut short due to the track surface breaking up.

In addition to extensive resurfacing at the Belle Isle course, it has been restored to an earlier layout which features a longer straight after turn two which should allow for easier overtaking.

And instead of one race, there will be two. This is the first of three double-header rounds for IndyCar this year – the others will take place on the Toronto and Houston street circuits.

Qualifying takes place today (Friday) and then there’ll be a 70-lap race on Saturday and another on Sunday.

Here’s a preview of the revised track:

http://youtu.be/ddIPLiXS-d4

And here’s Juan Pablo Montoya’s thrilling, barrier-skimming run to pole position on this layout in 1999: