Indy 500 Pole day...

throb · 3/1/08, 4:18 AM

tried this one the other day but it must have been lost in the shuffle.......remember when pole day at the "big track" had a packed house just like race day........it doesnt seem like that long ago.......anybody think it will ever get back to being this cool???

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MvWHInUfqhk

ThrottleHead · 3/1/08, 9:10 AM

It would be nice! I have been to every Pole Day since 1980. I used to remember you had to start lining up at the gate in turn 4 about an hour before they opened in order to get your good seats in NW Vista top row. The only way to save the hassle was if you had a friend that had a Bronze badge (we did for a few years there) who would save you a few spots. NW vista used to be packed as was most of the front straight and turn 1. Those were the days.....

cecil98 · 3/1/08, 11:52 AM

watching that gave me goose bumps! However, I've been going to pole day/weekend since 1964 (race too) and by 1995 the crowds had gone from a peak of 150,000+ down to aproximately 50,000. I remember the race day like traffic jams on pole day from the mid-60's through the mid 80's. In 1988 I took my son (7years old) up on pole day for his first time. We went down Crawfordsville Rd, up Georgetown to 24th and parked in a yard on 24th St without hardly slowing down. We drove right up to the place. That was the first year that I noticed the crowds dropping off somewhat. It was still a great crowd but, noticably down from the years before. In spite of what Robin Miller says about the glory days of 1995, things were beginning to decline by then. 1995 saw only 44 entries and less than 40 car/driver combinations and, the qualifying crowds were thinning out.

3/1/08, 4:18 AM	#1 Indy 500 Pole day...
throb Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 888	tried this one the other day but it must have been lost in the shuffle.......remember when pole day at the "big track" had a packed house just like race day........it doesnt seem like that long ago.......anybody think it will ever get back to being this cool??? http://youtube.com/watch?v=MvWHInUfqhk __________________ Rob Botts

3/1/08, 9:10 AM	#2 Re: Indy 500 Pole day...
ThrottleHead Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 1,150	It would be nice! I have been to every Pole Day since 1980. I used to remember you had to start lining up at the gate in turn 4 about an hour before they opened in order to get your good seats in NW Vista top row. The only way to save the hassle was if you had a friend that had a Bronze badge (we did for a few years there) who would save you a few spots. NW vista used to be packed as was most of the front straight and turn 1. Those were the days.....

3/1/08, 11:52 AM	#3 Re: Indy 500 Pole day...
cecil98 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 1,399	watching that gave me goose bumps! However, I've been going to pole day/weekend since 1964 (race too) and by 1995 the crowds had gone from a peak of 150,000+ down to aproximately 50,000. I remember the race day like traffic jams on pole day from the mid-60's through the mid 80's. In 1988 I took my son (7years old) up on pole day for his first time. We went down Crawfordsville Rd, up Georgetown to 24th and parked in a yard on 24th St without hardly slowing down. We drove right up to the place. That was the first year that I noticed the crowds dropping off somewhat. It was still a great crowd but, noticably down from the years before. In spite of what Robin Miller says about the glory days of 1995, things were beginning to decline by then. 1995 saw only 44 entries and less than 40 car/driver combinations and, the qualifying crowds were thinning out.