Despite the bland and dull off-season in NASCAR, the racing community has some news to be excited about as reports suggest a hell-raiser about the upcoming Indy 500 in May of next year. While Kyle Larson and his Hendrick Motorsports-Arrow McLaren collaboration will be the star attraction on the grid, the popular NASCAR enthusiast tweeted out the staggering stats that will make the great American open-wheel race a cherished one for the ages.

NASCAR journalist Adam Stern from Sports Business Journal relayed the good news to the community that the tickets for the upcoming event have already crossed last year’s gross, selling tickets like hotcakes off of a bakery shelf for the 108th edition of the highly anticipated Indy500.

225,000 and counting—a NASCAR journalist uncovers the impressive Indy500 stats

As the year draws to a close and the community is busy scrambling for Christmas celebrations, good news is coming in from the racing world. To be precise, reports are coming in from the IndyCar/NASCAR world surrounding the highly anticipated Indy 500 that the ticket sales have already crossed the mark set by last year’s event.

Even with 5 months more to go for the open-wheel extravaganza in May, the authorities have sold 10,000 more tickets than last year. According to Adam Stern, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway has sold 10,000 more than the 2023 edition of the same, possibly because of the star-studded line-up and Cup Series champion Kyle Larson’s Indy run.

Breaking the exciting news to the community, Stern put out a tweet that reads, “@IMS says that it’s up by roughly 10,000 tickets for the 108th Indy 500 versus the comparable sales period last year and that it would already have 225,000 people in attendance all told if the May event was held today.” This is a direct indication of the hype surrounding the event and reveals the oomph Kyle Larson has brought in as the 2021 Cup Series champion gears up for his first IndyCar start.

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Touted as a once-in-a-generation talent, the #5 Cup Series driver is constantly pushing the envelope, and now he is all set to conquer the high-speed Indy track. In May 2024, Kyle Larson will follow in the footsteps of legends like 3-time Cup Series winner Tony Stewart and Kurt Busch, who attempted the infamous “Double,” racing 500 miles and 200 laps against some of the world’s best open-wheel racers before they returned to Charlotte to take on NASCAR’s most grueling race, the Coca-Cola 600.

The collaboration between HMS and Arrow McLaren will ensure that the driver gets a solid shot in Indy as Kyle Larson prepares for double duty. At the end of the day, he will have clocked around 1100 miles altogether, racing the best of the best from the IndyCar and NASCAR worlds on the same day.

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