Photo from the Grand Prix of Baltimore’s Facebook page.

If there’s something about seeing cars swing around tight turns at 180 miles per hour that does it for you, make sure to head up to Baltimore over Labor Day. That weekend, Charm City will be hosting the Second Annual Grand Prix of Baltimore, an IndyCar race that takes place on a course winding through and around the Inner Harbor.

This year’s race comes a full decade after D.C. briefly experimented with hosting a Grand Prix—it was in July 2002 that IndyCars raced around a 1.7-mile course set up in an RFK Stadium parking lot. And had the original deal bringing the race to D.C. held up, this year would be the tenth and final running of what organizers hoped was going to be a decade-long annual event.

The race never survived, though. After its inaugural running, neighbors complained of the noise produced by the cars, effectively sinking its future in the city. (The D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs measured the noise at between 100.4 and 105 decibels, almost double what is allowed in residential neighborhoods.) The race was also controversial because D.C. paid $5.1 million to host it—significantly more than originally expected.

Baltimore’s version of the race seems to be doing better, though. Not only is the course more attractive than RFK’s, but Baltimore secured more national TV coverage for the race.