We got tickets to see the Indy 500 today. Chris has lived here 11 years and has never gone and I've been here 2 and have never been inside the track - flown over and driven past many times thou.
Since we were given tickets (Misty, a friend of Chris got tickets thru work and didn't want to go) and have a friend (Von) who lives about 3 blocks away and she let us park in her driveway we thought - what the heck, lets go.
And I've been once and once is enough for me. Think Taste of Chicago on the 3rd of July but with every one drunk.
It is a huge drunk fest. You can bring in alcohol and food so there is no need to buy their over priced beer. So fill a cooler with beer and you are set for 3 hours of sitting in the sun watching the cars go around the track.
According to the reports this was the biggest turnout in 12 years (since the league split).
We were sitting on the north stretch between turns 3 and 4. The crash between Kannan and Fischer late in the race was just to our right.
Oh and more women need to be race car drivers - if you didn't watch the race Danica Patrick got hit coming out of pit row late in the race. Her car got spun and her back wheel broke. Once they got her out of the car she was on a mission to find the guy who hit her (who was also damaged and had been pushed back into pit row). She marched thru pit row towards him and track security ended up stopping her before she got to him. Word on the radio was the guy who hit her was told to stay in the car and not get out. I'm pretty sure she was going to read him the riot act and bitch him out but we will never find out now. Up until that point she had been pretty much running in the top 10 and would have had a chance at a win. That was the best part of the race.
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