You can take a guided track tour at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway

INDIANAPOLIS – Race followers are counting all the way down to the Indianapolis 500 Sunday. There’s a lot historical past with this race and in case you’ve ever been, you understand there may be a lot to see.

Fortunately, there are tour guides there to assist take you round.

We met up with one in every of them to get a particular behind the scenes expertise, and let’s simply say Gary Wilkerson is aware of his stuff.

This can be his 62^nd Indianapolis 500 he has attended.

Wilkerson’s ardour for racing began when he attended his first Indianapolis 500 when he was 7 years outdated.

“And by golly I used to be hooked and from that time on I’ve not missed a race,” mentioned Wilkerson.

Many years of reminiscences, that he now cherishes, from cheering on his favourite driver, AJ Foyt, turning into friends with IMS President, Doug Boles, even in 2020, when the pandemic shut the gates to followers he discovered a strategy to be right here.

“Once I retired I bought a job right here. I reside this place three hundred and sixty five days a 12 months,” mentioned Wilkerson.

Gary is now a tour information.

When you go to there are 4 totally different excursions across the monitor. You possibly can take a non-public golf cart with Gary, there’s a VIP tour that hits key landmarks usually off limits, and the preferred – ‘Kiss the Bricks’ tour. The place you cease on the famed Yard of Bricks in the beginning and end line of the race and provides them a kiss!

Wilkerson added, “We’ve bought the brand new security obstacles, how that got here to be for the security of the game. Then we get to the yard of bricks. That’s the place it actually will get enjoyable.”

For Gary, he’s not simply sharing his information and the historical past.  He sharing his love for racing with individuals from everywhere in the world.

“That’s the neatest factor on this planet. I come to work day by day – loving it,” mentioned Wilkerson.

The 90-minute excursions undergo November.

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