Indianapolis

We arrived very early on Tuesday and had showers and a change of clothes before heading into Indianapolis Motor Speedway. We picked up our pit and garage passes and headed into the pits. We met lots of really friendly people and saw all the Indy cars in the garages. After checking out some of the garages we walked through a tunnel and out onto the  pit wall past all the pit boxes. We took heaps of photos and watched a couple of cars do some laps. Indy cars are really fast, loud and not very big. The cars were going about 365kph. That's very fast. We saw AJ Foyt on a buggy, he has won the Indy 500 4 times. We met and talked to Pancho Carter and he's been racing sprint cars, midgets and Indy cars. After wandering around for a while Jim took us to check out the driver's motor homes hoping to meet Scott Dixon. We found his bus driver and while we were talking to him Scott bounced out of his bus into a buggy and headed for the track so we knew he was going out soon. We walked back through the garages and went shopping at the merchandise place. Jim bought us a couple of replica Indy cars and that was really cool. We then headed into the grandstand to have a look for just a little while. Jim came and got us and said to unpack the cars and Scott might autograph them for us so that's what we did. Guess what! 

We found him. He stopped and chatted to us and signed the cars. He was really friendly and we are hoping to see him again when we get back here in the 22nd. Big day and so much happened.