It was my christmas present. Anyone else going?

 

Trying to decide on Indy or Toronto. I've been to Indy for the past two years and loved it. I'll probably end up there again.

Great Christmas gift.

 

You bet!

I reordered my tickets long ago, and in fact I just got my free 2006 season Review book from Indy, it was a free thank you gift for reordering early, and it is a very nice book too I might ad.

So, Gink5, do you know where your seats are? Will this be you 1st F1 race live in person?

 

Here is a little US GP tid bit...

The United States Grand Prix at Indianapolis, despite the infamous six-car fiasco of 2005, continues to attract perhaps the largest spectator crowd for a Formula One race worldwide each year, no mean feat of promotion when you're selling the same eleven teams and 22 drivers/personalities to audiences in seventeen or so far-flung and culturally diverse countries.

Indy also gets impressive worldwide television ratings, a demographic vastly more important to Bernie Ecclestone's bean counters in London, thanks to a favorable time zone that puts the race on telly' in prime time in many overseas countries. Amid the rumors over the future of the USGP at Indianapolis following the disaster of 2005, Bernie Ecclestone grabbed headlines by declaring that F-1 "doesn't need" the United States. His comments instantly brought howls from the teams, who not only insisted that a grand prix in the world's biggest market was a necessity, but clamored for more than one current round of the world championship in the USA.

 

My seats are the paddock penthouse, right across from the start and pits. Yea its my first time, cant wait.

 

Are you going for race day only or will you be there before? The reason I ask is on Thursday morning from 8 to 12 they have a free pit lane walk through, a fantastic event. To get in you only need to show your race day ticket and I believe a Friday/Saturday general admission ticket which is only like twenty five bucks, but I could be wrong, it might be ya just need the race day ticket, I can never remember.

Are you taking a hotel, camping, what's the plan? The reason I ask if you are taking a hotel make your reservations now if you want to be anywhere even sort of close to the track.

 

Yea we have hotel reservations already. Right now we only have race day tickets, but we are getting qualifying soon.

thanks for the heads up. Anything else we should do or see?

 

The Friday/Saturday ticket is dirt cheap and can be ordered on-line, they won't mail tickets out yet but you can order them anytime, of course those Friday/Saturday tickets will also be for sale at the track. Keep in mind the Friday/Saturday ticket is general admission, I suggest as soon as you walk in you go find your Sunday seat, then once found leave and go sit someplace else, take the time to learn the track, find out what the view is like from other places, you may find like some of us, some of the cheaper seats actually have better views, I for one will never sit in anyplace other than Northwest Vista.

What else to do...

For sure go through the Indy museum if you have never been there, it's a great activity to do on Thursday afternoon as pit lane walk through is only from 8 to 12:00.

Those are the big things to me, you see I'm a camper, once I arrive at the track on Wednesday night I don't leave until Monday morning so I know little to nothing about the city and that is fine with me, being a camper allows me to relax, drink, rest and socialize with my friends I see every year there.

 

I attended the USGP from 2000-2005. I

 

I'll be there again, 4th year. We got NW Vista Deck this year, should be great. I always like to go to the indoor kart track for a few races, usually on thursday or friday night. I'll be camping right beside the tracks NW entrance in P1A, we usually try to get there as early as we can thursday for the pit walk (well worth getting there early for).