Indianapolis 500 Race Day - Day 5 - 2012 Indy 500 Motorcycle Trip

Sunday, May 27, 2012 @ 5:00 PM in General Travel

I woke up this morning at 5:00am in order to be at my friends house by 6:00 so we could leave for the track. There were 19 of us in total so we rented a big 12 seater van and then took a Tahoe so we could carry all the coolers and the remaining people.

We got to the track around 7:00 by taking our secret route in and bypassing all the traffic. We saw some people who must have been sitting in traffic for at least a couple of hours. The news shows in the morning were showing lines of traffic that had been sitting there since about 4:00am.

After unloading all the coolers from the cars and cracking some beers we headed into the track. In total we had four coolers full of beer and two full cases of water. We zigzagged around until we finally made it to the 3rd turn and set up our chairs and coolers. It was still a little on the cool side which felt nice and made it easy to drink beer. With all of our empty beer cans we started to build out an "Indy 500" in the fence in front of us.

Part of entry to the track was free entrance to the Snake Pit where Krewella and Benny Benassi were set to put on a show. We brought a cooler in there with some beers and got to enjoy the concerts. Around 10:30 the sun finally broke above the haze and it started to warm up drastically. Benny Benassi finished his set just before noon when the race was set to start. Before we left for the concert our beer can "Indy 500" was at "IN" and when we got back people had started adding to it and were starting to spell out Indianapolis and had made it all the way to "INDIA". We quickly started adding to it to continue spelling it out.

At our seats we were all starting to feel a little miserable due to the heat. As the day drew on we all stopped drinking beers and switched to water because it was so outrageously hot. They came on the loudspeakers eventually and said we set the record for the hottest race on history for the 500 at 93 degrees.

The race itself also had broken the record for most number of leader changes which helped to make the race exciting. We made our way back to the vehicles and started our journey home. The ride back was uneventful since most of us were extremely tired from the sun.

When we got back to my friends house we grilled out some chicken, burgers and brats and had some other munchies. I came back to my parents place to shower then went back over to jump in their hot tub. It ended up being a really long day but it was worth it.

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