Mark Miles, CEO of Hulman & Co., the parent of INDYCAR and Indianapolis Motor Speedway, said there are "good options at the beginning of the year" in developing the 2016 Verizon IndyCar Series schedule.

Miles participated in an INDYCAR teleconference as the Verizon IndyCar Series is coming off a record-setting race June 27 at Auto Club Speedway and heads into Round 12 of 16 at Milwaukee on July 12.

Other topics addressed included the on-track competition to date, which has featured eight different winners and track records broken; the implementation of aerodynamic bodywork packages by Chevrolet and Honda; and the exciting MAVTV 500 last weekend highlighted by an Indy car-record 80 lead changes and 3,147 passes for position.

Miles said the length of the schedule will be related to when it starts, and a return to venues such as Road America and Phoenix International Raceway and international events are "a focal point" of discussions. A street course race on Labor Day weekend in the Seaport District of Boston is an anchor for the '16 season.

"We do not expect to have a five‑month schedule, nor was that ever the goal," he said. "The idea was not shorter and less. It was to see if we couldn't slide the schedule while actually growing it earlier in the year to be in a more ideal or beneficial television period. The model we have been pursuing has been seven months, 16, 18, 20 events and the number of events more is not necessarily better, it has to work on the calendar."

Listen to the full teleconference: