FANS CAN ENJOY SPECIAL ACCESS AT IMS ON POPULAR ‘GROUNDS TOUR’

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INDIANAPOLIS, Friday, Feb. 4, 2011 – The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame Museum will continue its Grounds Tours in 2011 with a complete schedule of dates from March through November.

Tickets are available now for the Museum’s popular Grounds Tour, which provides a great opportunity to entertain family, friends or clients with a 90-minute tour rich in IMS history and landmarks.

Grounds Tours will have significant extra meaning for fans in 2011, the final year of the Speedway’s Centennial Era and the 100th anniversary of the inaugural Indianapolis 500 in 1911.

Knowledgeable Hall of Fame Museum staff members serve as hosts for the Grounds Tours, providing tour participants with a narrated historical journey through the decades at the “Racing Capital of the World” along with visits to notable IMS landmarks normally open only to officials, drivers and teams during events.

Grounds Tour guests will visit the timing-and-scoring suite in the Pagoda, the Media Center, Victory Podium, Gasoline Alley garage area and the world-famous “Yard of Bricks” at the start/finish line.

Guests also will tour the Hall of Fame Museum and enjoy a ride around the famed 2.5-mile IMS oval in one of the Museum’s comfortable tour buses, culminating with a stop at the “Yard of Bricks.”

Seventy-two total dates are set for the 2011 Grounds Tour program. Check www.indianapolismotorspeedway.com for more details.

2011 Grounds Tours get underway Thursday, March 17 and continue on select weekdays and weekends through Saturday, Nov. 26. Tours are scheduled to depart from the Hall of Fame Museum four times per day on scheduled tour days: 9:30 a.m., 11:15 a.m., 1:15 p.m. and 3 p.m. (ET).

Times and dates of all Grounds Tours are subject to change.

The Hall of Fame Museum is located in the IMS infield, just inside the main gate (Gate 2) off 16th Street. Tickets for the tour also include admission to the Museum and are $25 for adults, $10 for youth ages 6-15 and free for children age 5 and younger. Cash, travelers’ checks, personal checks, Visa or MasterCard are accepted for Grounds Tour tickets.

Grounds Tour tickets and information are available by contacting Mary Geiss at the Hall of Fame Museum office at (317) 492-6747 or mgeiss@brickyard.com. Tickets also will be available for purchase at the Museum, but space is limited and tours often sell out.

Special arrangements can be made for groups of 20 persons or more on dates other than those scheduled for Grounds Tours. Call the Hall of Fame Museum office at (317) 492-6747 for details.

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2011 IMS HALL OF FAME MUSEUM GROUNDS TOUR SCHEDULE

March
Thursday, March 17
Wednesday, March 23
Thursday, March 24
Friday, March 25
Saturday, March 26
Sunday, March 27

April
Monday, April 4
Tuesday, April 5
Friday, April 15
Saturday, April 16
Thursday, April 21
Friday, April 22
Saturday, April 23

May
Wednesday, May 4
Sunday, May 8

June
Thursday, June 2
Friday, June 3
Saturday, June 4
Sunday, June 5
Saturday, June 18
Sunday, June 19
Monday, June 20
Wednesday, June 22
Thursday, June 23
Friday, June 24
Saturday, June 25
Sunday, June 26
Monday, June 27
Thursday, June 30

July
Friday, July 1
Saturday, July 2
Sunday, July 3
Monday, July 4
Tuesday, July 5
Wednesday, July 6
Thursday, July 7
Friday, July 8
Saturday, July 9
Sunday, July 10

August
Thursday, Aug. 4
Friday, Aug. 5
Saturday, Aug. 6
Sunday, Aug. 7
Monday, Aug. 8
Tuesday, Aug. 9
Wednesday, Aug. 10
Thursday, Aug. 11
Friday, Aug. 12
Saturday, Aug. 13

September
Thursday, Sept. 1
Friday, Sept. 2
Saturday, Sept. 3
Sunday, Sept. 4
Monday, Sept. 5
Tuesday, Sept. 27

October
Monday, Oct. 10
Saturday, Oct. 15
Sunday, Oct. 16
Monday, Oct. 17
Tuesday, Oct. 18
Wednesday, Oct. 19
Thursday, Oct. 20
Friday, Oct. 21
Saturday, Oct. 22
Sunday, Oct. 23

November
Friday, Nov. 11
Saturday, Nov. 12
Thursday, Nov. 17
Friday, Nov. 18
Saturday, Nov. 19
Friday, Nov. 25
Saturday, Nov. 26

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2011 IMS tickets: Tickets are on sale for all three races in 2011 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway – the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, May 29, the Brickyard 400 on Sunday, July 31 and the Red Bull Indianapolis GP on Sunday, Aug. 28 – at www.imstix.com.

For more information, call the IMS ticket office at (317) 492-6700 or (800) 822-INDY outside the Indianapolis area or visit the ticket office at the IMS Administration Building at the corner of Georgetown Road and 16th Street. Ticket office and phone hours are 8 a.m.-5 p.m. (ET)
Monday-Friday.

Children 12 and under will receive free general admission to any IMS event in 2011 when accompanied by an adult general admission ticket holder.