How do I get infield tickets?
Practice or Qualifying Days:
You can buy your admittance ticket as you enter at the gate.
You do not have to worry about them filling up for practice or qualifying
days for any race.
I do not know why you'd want to, but you can order tickets in advance
for Qualifying. Qualifying never sells out. Why pay for tickets months in
advance, then take the chance of losing them or forgetting them? Just
pay your $10 when you enter. (Practice days are $5).
Race Day:
$20 at the gate for infield seats (grassy hills) for the INDY 500.
No Infield Admission for the BRICKYARD 400.
For the U.S. GRAND PRIX, they limit the amount of people for infield
admission and this it does sell out, so pre-order your admission tickets
for the F1 race!
Are you affiliated in any way with the Indianapolis Speedway?
No. I am a Indy fan trying to help out other Indy fans.
I am interested in selling a couple of my tickets for this year and I
am a bit concerned about a warning message that I saw on your site
about the Speedway revoking renewal rights. Can you give me some
additional information?
Whether the Speedway likes it or not, you have the right in Indiana to re-sell
those tickets for whatever price you want. However, the Speedway has the
right to revoke your tickets if they want!
The Speedway does not approve of people selling the tickets for more than
face value. If they have evidence that this happened, they could revoke your
tickets next year, however, they will not turn around and give them to the
person who turned you in. I would think it would take the person who
purchased your tickets to cause you any trouble and they wouldn't benefit
from it.
None the less, I do not recommend listing the exact seats numbers.
Stand, section and row# should be enough information to provide.
I will list your ad however you tell me. If you don't have enough details and a
price that is double the face value, it is likely no one will contact you. If you
are a little paranoid about listing your ticket location on the web, you might
choose to just provide a description of the seats and hope it attracts people
to email you for details.
Some of the ads to sell tickets look as if sellers have sold their
tickets for more than face value. Will you let people do this?
People do sell their tickets on my site at prices over face occasionally, and I
do not care or interfere. However, if I felt my board was being used by
professionals, I would not allow this, as this board takes work and I'm doing
it for free for the race fans, not to make profits for ticket brokers.
Some of the ads to sell tickets look like the seller has been able to
keep their identity secret. How is the transaction between seller and
buyer consumated with no phone # or email shown in the ad? Do you
act as an intermediary?
You will only find the contact information missing after the seller has written
me and told me they sold their tickets. I remove their email address and
phone number so no one can further bother them. I also remove row # and
seat#.
Instead of deleting the ads, I like to leave some info out there (general area
of tickets, quantity, and price) for the season, so we can all see how this
little project went. I do not act as intermediary between the sellers and
buyers.
How do you order tickets for Qualifications/Carb Day/Practice?
There really is no need to. Whenever you wish to get into the speedway
during the month of May, you simply show up and pay at the gate - whether you
drive in or walk in. There is no possibility that they will be too full. (I think
the speedway is like 400 acres....) None the less, if you want to pre-purchase
your practice day tickets, you can. Simply go to the Indy 500 website and
order them. Just don't forget and leave them at home!
Prices are listed on my Ticket Prices Page.
Where can I find a detailed seat guide?
There is not one available, but if you have a question, you can ask me.
What is the "standard procedure" for buying tickets from a
stranger?
First off, the seller should choose a sturdy cardboard envelope as the mailer,
so that the tickets do not get bent.
I recommend that the seller mail the tickets at the post office. Send it
"Certified Mail". The seller specifies the amount of money needed to receive
the package. It is like sending something C.O.D.
The seller pays the post office approx. a $10 fee for mailing this envelope.
More often than not, the price of the tickets therefore goes up $10.
They can accept cash, money order and personal check. If the buyer presents
cash, he'll be charged 80 cents more for converting it into a money order by
the post office. It is up to the seller to determine if they will accept
personal checks.
It may be a good idea to have the tickets sent to the buyer's work address if
no one is home during the day. If the postal worker cannot deliver it, the
tickets will have to be picked up at the post office. If the package is not
picked up within 30 days, it will be sent back to the seller. The seller can also
specify that the package be returned on a different date, such as after 1
week.
After the mailman picks up your money, he will mail it to you along with the
receipt you signed when you sent it.
I think this method is the safest for both buyer and seller. - Dan
