Any Indy 500 race goers here?

[Aloha Hoosier]

Who’s going to the Indy 500 this Sunday? I’m going over tomorrow. Hang out Friday night. Golf and a party Saturday. We have a group of 20 in Turn 1 for the race. Cook out and more partying after race. Most of us went to IU together. We bring friends and relatives with us too. Usually a rookie or two. It’s always a great time.

 

[Ohio Guy]

Who’s going to the Indy 500 this Sunday? I’m going over tomorrow. Hang out Friday night. Golf and a party Saturday. We have a group of 20 in Turn 1 for the race. Cook out and more partying after race. Most of us went to IU together. We bring friends and relatives with us too. Usually a rookie or two. It’s always a great time.

As crazy as it sounds, I have a fairly large group of cousins and friends who go every year and I've never been to the actual race. I've been to time trials plenty of times. I always seem to have plans Memorial Day weekend. My daughter graduates high school this weekend so the tradition continues, I guess.

I went to Marian my freshman year and you could hear the cars practicing from my dorm room in the weeks leading up to the race. I went to the track a couple times that year and a few times sprinkled in over the years.

I probably haven't been back in over a decade, but it's on my list of things I need to do/experience.

 

[Baller23Boogie]

As crazy as it sounds, I have a fairly large group of cousins and friends who go every year and I've never been to the actual race. I've been to time trials plenty of times. I always seem to have plans Memorial Day weekend. My daughter graduates high school this weekend so the tradition continues, I guess.

I went to Marian my freshman year and you could hear the cars practicing from my dorm room in the weeks leading up to the race. I went to the track a couple times that year and a few times sprinkled in over the years.

I probably haven't been back in over a decade, but it's on my list of things I need to do/experience.

Congrats to your daughter. Definitely worth missing the race for.

Mine has graduation June 1, more then a week after week get out. My oldest graduated as a junior, so this was our first senior year we've experienced. Definitely different experience.

 

[Ohio Guy]

Congrats to your daughter. Definitely worth missing the race for.

Mine has graduation June 1, more then a week after week get out. My oldest graduated as a junior, so this was our first senior year we've experienced. Definitely different experience.

Thanks! And congrats to your graduate as well!

Crazy how time flies. My son will start his junior year in college and my daughter is off to Pitt for her freshman year. That snuck up on me FAST.

 

[mcmurtry66]

Thanks! And congrats to your graduate as well!

Crazy how time flies. My son will start his junior year in college and my daughter is off to Pitt for her freshman year. That snuck up on me FAST.

it does indeed. next year will be son's last year of pre school

 

[T.M.P.]

Who’s going to the Indy 500 this Sunday? I’m going over tomorrow. Hang out Friday night. Golf and a party Saturday. We have a group of 20 in Turn 1 for the race. Cook out and more partying after race. Most of us went to IU together. We bring friends and relatives with us too. Usually a rookie or two. It’s always a great time.

I'll just watch local traffic.

 

[76-1]

Who’s going to the Indy 500 this Sunday? I’m going over tomorrow. Hang out Friday night. Golf and a party Saturday. We have a group of 20 in Turn 1 for the race. Cook out and more partying after race. Most of us went to IU together. We bring friends and relatives with us too. Usually a rookie or two. It’s always a great time.

Hope you have a great time...

I used to be heavily involved with it in my youth ranging from going to qualifications with friends and family as a child to backyard friends and family cookouts along with a money pool: a game where everyone there put a quarter in the pot (so the kids could play) and each drew drivers names (usually you got two depending on the size of the group) then fooled around in the back yard while listening to the race on the radio... Great people, good times. Whoever won got all the cash in a commemorative mug that mom would pick up at Marsh just for that purpose...

Later when I was part of the Governors Honor Guard (Scouts without the weirdos), I marched around the track 3 or 4 times in the 60's and once presented the Scottish Flag to Jackie Stewart the year he was a media darling there (more of a dip and up acknowledgment)...

Those damn flags got heavy around the 1.25 mile marker as they had the old fashioned full length oak staffs... Carrying the American Flag was special but just being back in the pack with a state flag not so much, those 60's style kids hiking boots without decent insoles didn't cut it for that kind of duty...

We did get in for free though and pretty much had the run of the place as long as we used common sense... Lots of ogling girls twice our age who weren't going to give us the time of day had we asked 🤣...

Took dates routinely to qualifying for a few years there...

Went several times as a paying customer and saw Foyt win his last one... (I guess I did go one more time after Savage because Foyts last one was "77" , I vaguely recall a female wanting to go... We were up high on the outside of the 1st turn that time (pretty good spot to see the entire homestretch, the 1st turn and the 1st short chute and even the beginning of the 2nd turn...).

My 2nd to last race live was a free ticket on the rain delayed race where Salt Walther had flipped the day before... Had to watch Swede Savage get upside down at the pit entrance and burn up slowly right across from me...

Not a thing I could do... They had that part of the viewing area completely wired and cabled up so there was no jumping down and getting across to him... (probably wouldn't have made it anyway).., It seemingly took Forever for the rescue guys to get to him out...

Pretty much lost my appetite for on site race viewing after that... (but I guess I did go one more time)...

I'll still probably watch it if it's on TV here but just don't have the connection I once had...

I was lucky to have seen some of the greats: Eddie Sacks, Parnelli Jones, A J Foyt... etc... The Offenhauser engines, and the Turbines... (plus the Novis that Colorado reminded me about),..

Fun Times as a youngster... (aside from the Savage incident),,.

 

[BradStevens]

Thanks! And congrats to your graduate as well!

Crazy how time flies. My son will start his junior year in college and my daughter is off to Pitt for her freshman year. That snuck up on me FAST.

My neighbor's daughter is graduating from Pitt this month. She loved it there. Hope your daughter loves it, too.

 

[kurt cloverdales]

Who’s going to the Indy 500 this Sunday? I’m going over tomorrow. Hang out Friday night. Golf and a party Saturday. We have a group of 20 in Turn 1 for the race. Cook out and more partying after race. Most of us went to IU together. We bring friends and relatives with us too. Usually a rookie or two. It’s always a great time.

are you an actual fan of the racing or is it just a big party? went to brickyard 1-time wasn't able to really follow what was going on. cars would wiz by then wouldn't see the same car for a while. do you a favorite driver or team you follow.

 

[Ohio Guy]

My neighbor's daughter is graduating from Pitt this month. She loved it there. Hope your daughter loves it, too.

We also visited Butler, Dayton and Xavier and she was totally sold on Pitt. Financial Aid was more or less a wash so I wanted it to be her decision, but I was kind of pulling for Butler of Xavier. That said I think she’ll do great at Pitt. It seems like a pretty good school.

 

[Ohio Guy]

it does indeed. next year will be son's last year of pre school

Oh man - I went on a few dates with a woman who adopted her deceased brother’s kids. 1st and 3rd grade. I give her major props for stepping up like that, but I just wasn’t in that mindset. I wrestled with it for a bit before just being honest about not wanting to hit the reset button when my daughter goes off to school.

 

[CO. Hoosier]

Who’s going to the Indy 500 this Sunday? I’m going over tomorrow. Hang out Friday night. Golf and a party Saturday. We have a group of 20 in Turn 1 for the race. Cook out and more partying after race. Most of us went to IU together. We bring friends and relatives with us too. Usually a rookie or two. It’s always a great time.

This race should be interesting more than most. A couple of team Penske fast cars are in the last row because of alleged cheating involving a small part on the rear of the car. Penske is honest and he fired those involved even though there is a question about the merits of the charge

The first race I attended Jim Hurtubise had qualified a Novi back in the pack. By the second lap, he had the Novi near the front, in the third lap the Novi was out with a broken something. Novis were always 50 and 60’sc crowd favorites. Noisy and fast but always fell apart.

 

[mcmurtry66]

Oh man - I went on a few dates with a woman who adopted her deceased brother’s kids. 1st and 3rd grade. I give her major props for stepping up like that, but I just wasn’t in that mindset. I wrestled with it for a bit before just being honest about not wanting to hit the reset button when my daughter goes off to school.

Dude you’ve got the world by the balls now. Be selective. No trickbags

 

[Aloha Hoosier]

are you an actual fan of the racing or is it just a big party? went to brickyard 1-time wasn't able to really follow what was going on. cars would wiz by then wouldn't see the same car for a while. do you a favorite driver or team you follow.

Love the race. Key is having some noise canceling headphones and listening to the broadcast of the race while watching it.

Also, our partying is pretty tame these days.