Race Day

Even though the gates opened at 5:30, we decided to wait until 9:00 to leave the hotel for the track.  When we got there, people were already everywhere!  Since we had been there yesterday, we knew the shortest route to our seat.  We quickly found where we needed to be and climbed the stairs up to the second to last row.  Since I have never been to an Indy 500 race, I had no idea if the tickets I bought were in a place where we could see too much.  As it turned out we were sitting at the start/finish line which was absolutely perfect.  There was so much going on before the race that sitting there for over 2 hours seemed like just a few minutes.  The day could not have been more perfect and the race started about 12:30.  It was amazing to watch the cars drive so fast and for about 150 laps there were no problems.  Then there were three wrecks, three yellow flags and finally a red flag which totally stopped the race to clean off the track.  The race got re-started with only about 6 laps to go an it was the second closest finish in Indy 500 history with only .06 seconds between first and second.  And we were in the perfect place to see it!  There were so many people it took about two hours to get back to the hotel.  It was an amaIng day at the end of an even more amazing trip.