ON SUNDAY, 106TH INDIANAPOLIS 500 WRAPPED UP AS MOTORSPORT EXPERIENCED ITS GREATEST WEEKEND. THIS YEAR’S EDITION OF THE ICONIC RACE WAS PRETTY MUCH A ROARING SUCCESS. IN FACT, THE INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY WELCOMED A GRAND TOTAL OF 325,000 FANS, WHICH WAS JUST SHY OF THE 350,000 IN 2016. SUFFICE TO SAY, THIS WAS MUSIC TO THE EARS OF ROGER PENSKE, WHO BOUGHT THE SPEEDWAY IN 2019.
Roger Penske bought the Indianapolis 500 track in 2019. And, since then, he has spent nearly $30 Million revamping it.
2021 had 135,000 spectators who came to see helio Castroneves become a four-time winner. 2022 was the first full-capacity race with a whopping, 325,000 spectators