You can purchase race tickets on-line at Official Website
You may also mail the Speedway an order form.
Order forms are available from their web site or call and request
a ticket order form at (317) 492-6700 or 1-800-822-4639
NOTE: You can buy Indy 500 infield general admission tickets at
the gate with cash; you do NOT have to pre-order these.
When you order tickets, you select several seat preferences. The
Speedway will try to get you what you want, but generally all the
best stands are sold out shortly after the previous year's race.
Everyone who has a ticket, can reorder that same ticket for next
year. This means that many good seats are kept year after year
by the same people.
NOTE: Although you may pay for your tickets a year in advance,
IMS does not mail them to you until approximately 2-4 months
before the particular race.
Get Tickets From the Speedway
Other Ticket Sources
If you can't find the tickets you want, don't worry. They sell SO
MANY tickets that its a cinch to find them from:
Practice and qualification tickets to all the races can be
purchased in advance, or when you enter the track - at
the gate - CASH ONLY.
IMS doesn't mail out tickets until 2-4 months before
the event, so I do not recommend giving your money to
someone who doesn't have the tickets in their possession.
Obviously you need to be familiar with a map of the
speedway. I offer various maps throughout this website.
My Speedway Maps page may be helpful. I've now added
a Speedway Seating Chart.
You can call the Speedway and ask them to send you an
application for tickets. They will send you a map with the
application. Their ticket office number is
(317) 492-6700 as well as 1-800-822-4639.
They are open Monday-Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST.
Once you are a ticket owner, you must pay for and renew
those tickets a year in advance - within a week of the
end of the last race.
People who have tickets, have the right to renew those
tickets.....Every year! Consequently you have a lot of
seats getting passed down generation to generation, like
a heirloom. Seats that come up for sale are offered to
existing ticket holders first.
Don't count on landing great seats when you order them
straight from the speedway. They will ask you to pick
some preferences for seats, and then see what they can
do. You can try and upgrade them every year though.

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