My boss and I were granted suite passes by AT&T, which was really nice. We were pampered quite well! A bus ride with police escort to the track, great seats, free food and drink (prime rib!) a private restroom (for suite guests only) and of course, air conditioning if we wanted to come inside. The funny part about the suite is that someone had a Cubs game on, and several people were actually watching baseball DURING the race!
What's up with that?! I like baseball, but come on people!
Attendance they say was over 300,000 which is the biggest in a few years. Several celebrities were there, including 3 men who have received the Congressional Medal of Honor, our nation's highest honor.
The weather had everyone a little nervous as Indy had gotten rain something like 14 of the 21 days prior to the race. However, we had about 72 degrees and not a single drop of rain fell on us. Thank you God for that blessing!
The most exciting part was when the Wii Fit car smacked the wall at turn 4 and spun out of control; rocketing into the pits at around 200 MPH! It smashed into the inner pit wall, spun through the sign that tells the drivers how fast they are going (they should be going 40 MPH through the pits however this sign said the car was STILL going 96 even after hitting 2 walls and doing all that spinning ) and then slid through and past several stalls before coming to a stop, below and about one pit stall past, us.
When leaving we rode our bus with police escort, I said we were pampered, back to downtown Indy, which took all of 15 minutes. No red lights, no traffic (for us) and no stopping. Cool! The news said the lines going into the track were about 2 1/2 miles long at 6 am, and I hear they're even longer getting out. Thanks again to our hosts Brian Clark and AT&T.
An unbelievable experience, a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and one I hope to be blessed enough to do again some day!
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Wow, what a cool experience. And how nice that you got VIP treatment for your first race. Now you're spoiled.
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