I live just outside of Toronto and have gone to many indy races over the last decade and a half . Like the previous commenter mentioned , the hotels are being built and they don ' t want to lose access for a weekend during the race . Also , the event just isn ' t the same . It ' s overly expensive and there isn ' t a lot of fan value return . When I first started attending CART races in Toronto is was a massive ever . A trade show inside , tons of access , simulators , giveaways and good access to general admission with your lawn chair . Over the last few years all of that has disappeared . Food is limited and expensive although last year was better and the tickets cost a small fortune for what amounts to a mediocre main event and are limited to grand stands also reduced in size and moved to poorer sight lines . Overly zealous security that will yell at you at a moments notice for stuff like walking over the pedestrian access bridge with an open bottle of water . Also , gone are the days of Da Matta and Tracy and Andretti dukeing it out . No one cares about the current driver lineup here . Also , Toronto is an extremely multicultural city and they keep praying to Jesus before the race to keep the drivers safe . Public prayer is a nono here . This is closing off a huge market of people to indycar and this event . Over the last 10 years it went from this amazing event that we would look forward to , to this do you want to go ? Thing . This is a guy who has been to every Canadian Grand Prix going back to 2001 . Montreal becomes F 1 , indycar is a thing that happens in Toronto . Also , we have a family friend who marshalls in toronto and he told us they do not have a contract for 2017 . He doesn ' t think there will be a race .