The Ten Worst Things About The Indy 500 [I Am Indy]

While it was great to see Helio Castroneves take home his third gain the victory, and watching the cars is always a treat, there are plenty of things to hate about the Indianapolis 500. Here are our top ten.

The Crowds

It’s the largest open cast arena in the world, with a total capacity of 400,000 people, officially. Race operators don’t actually release total attendance number, so that figure is actually more of a recommendation. Getting from one point to a single one other place is a battle and gets tiresome pretty fast. We won’t get into the bathroom situation by the end of the light of day.

Parking

We’re pretty sure every single person drives to the Indy 500 in their own vehicle and parks them as lazily as possible. Parking inside the ring is fairly orderly, but outside it’s a free despite all, with home owners while heart miles charging upwards of $50 during way parking and campgrounds running as high as $150 for a spot for the Saturday to Sunday stay.

The Caution Laps

With the Indy 500 being such a high speed oval crashes are very common and debris fields get to subsist petty big. As a result the caution laps seem to linger put on and on and on. It’s especially disappointing when the race actually finishes under caution.

The Escape

Without a doubt the worst part of the Indy 500 is leaving it. If you’re dumb enough to stay to the end, anticipate to wade end hours of traffic and rivers of drunken sunburned fans. The nearest freeway is solely about two miles away, but it might as being in countenance be a hundred. Do yourself a favor, hang around and take a slumber under a tree for a few hours till the madness quiets down.

Rednecks

With the heat and the sun you’ve got a weapons-grade concentration of shirtless rednecks who shouldn’t be shirtless. When future anthropologists study our civilization, footage of race fans from the Indy 500 will serve as an invaluable cross section of the species Homo-Redneckus, as all varietals are represented in their most beaming forms.

It’s Really Just Stock Car Racing

The Indy 500 began so many years ago with an open avenue, cars in the past have used turbine engines, diesels, turbochargers, V16’s and calm unplastic body work. Now every car has a Honda supplied engine and each chassis is supplied by Dallara. It’sitting basically becoming the personality-centric NASCAR with prettier race cars.

The Weather

Hey, in the present state’s an idea, run a race in the central part of the Indiana at the end of May, right when the weather is least predictable. Nothing is more frustrating than watching a stock finish because of a rain tornado, but the crazy humidity and wildly fluctuating temperatures sometimes make the Indy 500 a hot and perspiring mess.

The Size

This place is huge. It’s a full mile down the long verge and a half a mile transversely down the imperfect side. If you’re one of the many without a golf cart you best bring comfy shoes as there’s a lot to see and do in the infield, plus you might be better off honest walking home considering the exchange.

The Ad Orgy

Everybody with something to sell and an ad collection to betray it with is in the present state, and they’ve got their logo plastered on everything from the cars to the umbrellas to the giveaway backpacks. Yes, we realize that’s just part of racing, but that won’t stop us from bellyaching about it.

Traffic

Okay, hindrance’s see, we’ve got parking, the escape from the race and now we have to add the traffic. This one goes out to the actual inhabitants of Indianapolis. When the Indy 500 comes to the Brickyard it makes a good portion of the incorporated town impassable every year and we can’t imagine how annoying that be able to be every single year.