Here is the way I understand it. It depends on who holds the liquior licesne. When Greg Staub ran The' Burg he had a local bar sell beer so you could bring in your own. He made his money off the rent paid by the bar.
ORP is also catered and I believe IMS is also and as THAT is now or was.

I can not understand why a track would want a liquior licesne, with cost of liquior liablity insurance and the chance of getting sued over a liquior accident. Let a caterer take all the resposniblity,no worrys and you make a buck on space rental for the track owner.

www.in.gov/atc all the laws are posted here.
i carry a temp alcohol permit.
The reason i sell beer is to make money, the same reason we sell food and drinks. If your not in it to make money you are a fool. I gotta go now and wax my mercedes and clean my mansion.
Have a great weekend and just go and enjoy some racing.

Dave WOW I kinda figured you'd have at least a ouple of Mercedes

AND... thank goodness the casino came to town to build us a awesome race track

What are you going to do when someone has to much beer and kills somebody? Then sues you and takes you for everything your worth.

I used to own a bar and liquior liability is expensive, I hope you have the insurance, because if you do not you are playing with fire. I can not see how the cost of liquior insurance can be worth selling beer once a week.

Again it seems it would be smarter to let a caterer sell the beer and take all the responiblilty, you can charge them a fair rent and everybody is happy. You make money with no liability, the caterer makes money and the fans can bring in their own beer.