Buy little 500 tickets in advance if going. usually sells out by mid afternoon if not prior to race day. Really a race everyone should see at least once and have a race monitor app to help keep track of who's on what lap. Not too hard to do untill the pit stops happen and that happens at least twice. Only sprint car race with pit stops. It's a hoot.

Also a lot of sun block for the weekend and prepare for anything, from cold to hot to thunderstorms.