Inaugural Brickyard Historics (indy) June 6-8

[Zychotic1]

http://secure.brickyard.com/Tickets/VintageRacing.aspx

anyone planning on attending? I'll be camping in the infield somewhere if any GTPers wanna meet up and maybe join me... the more race fans the merryier

 

[RaiderRacer]

I will be there, paddock box.

 

[Zychotic1]

I'm honestly kind of dissappointed there isnt more interest on this... as it truely is going to be the "ultimate car museum" so to speak...

 

[BrandonW77]

I'm honestly kind of dissappointed there isnt more interest on this... as it truely is going to be the "ultimate car museum" so to speak...

As am I, but I'm not entirely surprised. I live about an hour northeast of The Speedway and if I didn't follow IMS on Facebook I wouldn't have even known this was going on. The local Indy news did 5 hours of live broadcast leading up to the Indy 500 a couple weeks ago but as far as I've seen they haven't mentioned one thing about the Vintage weekend. Sad really, if it's not IndyCar or NASCAR the local news barely mentions anything going on at the Track (and they wonder why they have a hard time filling seats). I would have figured the largest gathering of race cars for competition in the history of this country would have garnered at least a mention on the local news.

I went to one of these vintage weekends at Mid-Ohio a few years ago and it was probably the most enjoyable time I've ever had at a race track. Non-stop racing from 8am until 6pm, hundreds of different cars from all different eras, a new race starts every 20 minutes or so, and most of the cars were out on display when they weren't racing so you could get right up to them and check them out. For a petrolhead, it was one of the best times you can imagine. It's really like Gran Turismo come to life. 👍

I will be camping in the infield, just got my tent yesterday. I plan on heading down Saturday morning and staying through most of Sunday (dependent on what the rain is going to do).

Here is some more info that I posted in another thread, maybe seeing this will get some more people interested (I'm sure there are plenty of tickets available, and they're cheap!).

"For the first time ever, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway will host more than 600 of the world’s finest and most historic racecars as they compete on the recently reconfigured road course as well as running exhibition events on the famed 2.5-mile oval as part of the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association’s Brickyard Vintage Racing Invitational to be held June 6–8.

The races will showcase a wide variety of cars including cars that competed in past Indianapolis 500s, cars from the NASCAR Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series, Formula One, Grand-Am prototypes and Trans-Am. In addition, American racing cars from makes like Chevrolet will compete with historic racecars from Ferrari, Porsche, Jaguar, MG and many others in twelve different classes of racing. A special class will also feature open-wheel race cars with Indianapolis 500 or other historic racing background. View Entry List
Racing at IMS will be virtually non-stop each day from 8 a.m.-6 p.m. The cars will be on display in the infield and open to all fans providing up close access to the racecars.

The SVRA, America’s premier vintage racing organization, is creating the intriguing competition for veterans of the Indianapolis 500 with a 40 minute race of American muscle cars on the Speedway’s 2.43-mile Grand Prix road course on Sunday, June 8. Two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Al Unser Jr. heads a field of impressive names that also include former Indianapolis Rookies-of-the-Year Lyn St. James and Robby McGehee as well as Willy T. Ribbs, Mark Dismore, Alex Lloyd, Johnny Parsons Jr., Davey Hamilton, Robby Unser, Pete Halsmer, Rocky Moran, Eliseo Salazar, Dick Simon, Scott Harrington, Jack Miller, Rick Treadway, Spike Gehlhausen, Billy Roe and John Hollansworth.

The cars for the Pro-Am will be 1963 to 1972 vintage Corvettes, Camaros and Mustangs of “Group 6,” with an engine displacement limit of 355 cubic inches. The Indianapolis 500 veterans will be paired with amateur drivers, each taking a 20-minute stint. Five minutes will be allotted for driver change.

The “Brickyard Invitational” weekend will be the largest gathering of race cars ever assembled for competition in America. The SVRA has 11 groups of cars spanning 100 years of vintage machines and all will be in action at IMS. The exciting array of entries include exquisite examples of select pre-war machines, classic sports cars, Formula One and endurance prototypes as current as 2009. The storied 2.5-mile oval will be utilized as well with exhibition runs by a wide variety of cars including several of the crowd-favorite 1950’s-vintage Indianapolis 500 “roadsters.” Race fans can enjoy every minute of the action by taking advantage of overnight camping inside the Speedway.

The Pro-Am cars and drivers will also participate in a Fan Walk through the starting grid prior to the opening ceremonies allowing fans to see the cars up close, take photos and chat with the drivers.

For the first time ever, we are allowing tent camping inside the IMS oval all weekend for only $30. IMS infield camping will be located inside of Turn 3."

 

[Panoz]

A few photos I took today.

 

[Panoz]

Some more pictures from Indy.

 

[BrandonW77]

Freaking awesome, can't wait until I get there tomorrow morning. So many iconic cars, at such an iconic track, it's really going to feel like going back in time.

@gtpanoz How's the crowd? Are there many people camping? I'm hoping there's a good crowd tomorrow night, partying and having a good time. I expect it will be a much more mature crowd than the 500. I really can't wait to watch the sunset behind the Pagoda and then watch it rise again over the Backstretch.

 

[Panoz]

Freaking awesome, can't wait until I get there tomorrow morning. So many iconic cars, at such an iconic track, it's really going to feel like going back in time.

@gtpanoz How's the crowd? Are there many people camping? I'm hoping there's a good crowd tomorrow night, partying and having a good time. I expect it will be a much more mature crowd than the 500. I really can't wait to watch the sunset behind the Pagoda and then watch it rise again over the Backstretch.

A good size crowd today but not bad considering the event is at IMS and a handful of tents in the turn 3 area. The most crowded area all day seem to be at Gasoline Alley where all the cars get lined up before taking the track.

 

[BrandonW77]

Hopefully the campground fills up a bit tonight and tomorrow. It's going to storm a bit Saturday night, hope the tent holds up ok. Should be clear by Sunday morning though.

 

[hobbsy]

Great pics, looks like there is some exciting racing... keep the pics coming

If I was not thousands of miles away, I'd be there too, enjoy

Laters 👍

 

[BrandonW77]

How awesome.

 

[BrandonW77]

Some pics from today.

They're going to be showing the Indy Car race from Texas on the jumbotrons tonight. How cool!

 

[Panoz]

Saturday photos from Indy.

 

[Zychotic1]

I seriously shoulda logged in from my phone to meet up with ya... I was camped in party corner... took 3100 photos/ videos...have to upload later...including video of the sp2 corvette going poof :'(

And you can thank the partying group (us) for the jumbotron broadcast of the texas race... that was our doing to convince them to put that on...took some name dropping by some indy vets...


The reason there was no advertising was it was not a speedway event, the svra rented the facility and allowed ticket sales...

The friday endurance races where epic!

And the Shadow running down the R8 was awesome... woulda loved to see the intrepid not run off turn 1 and running with em... and woulda liked to see if the shadow coulda got the audi without the audi error on hulman blvd

 

[Panoz]

Sunday photos.

 

[Zychotic1]

I finally got around to getting my photos weeded through and uploaded





for the rest just go here... warning theres nearly 1000 shots
http://s86.photobucket.com/user/ZXR_KiD/library/Indy Historic and GP