Your first Indy 500 & number of races since:

[sean26]

First: 2009
Age: 17
Total: 1
Consecutive: 1

Going again this year, missed last year due to graduation

[wpickard5]

First: 1990
Age: 15
Been to every one since then (22 years this year)

[Captain_Ron]

First: 2002
Age: 38
Total: 9
Consecutive: 9

This year will be my 10 race in a row.

[Rick Jones]

First: 1967
Age: 9 - 53
Total:44
Consecutive: 44

My 50th Indy 500, God willing, will be the 100th Indy 500!
I just realized I answered this thread a year ago.

[shifty]

First: 1961
Age: 10
Total: 48
46 Consecutive

[davidgarvin]

First: 1996
Age: 42
Total: 14
Consecutive: 14

[PHJIndy]

I'm too damn old to remember now. I do know that I have listened on the radio, watched on TV or seen in person every Indy 500 since 1949. In fact I may have seen all of about 5 minutes of the first live TV broadcast of the 1949 race through a neighbor's screen door before politely being shooed away. I know our family went to the first day of qualifications every year during the 1950s when I was a kid. I probably started going to the race on my own for sure at age 15 after moving to Speedway. That would have been 1959 and continued until 1968 when I entered the Navy and permanently moved away from Indiana. I picked it up again in 1997 and have a consecutive streak since. Here is proof positive of being there in 1960. I took these photos with a Kodak box camera.

1960 was my 2nd year in the snake pit. I was a junior in high school.
My friends and I were offered a seat on that scaffold and luckily we had enough sense to turn 'em down. We sat in the 2nd turn in our snake pit days, right up against the fence. The scaffold was on the north end in the 3rd turn.

[MoparsRule]

IT'S INDY IN THE MONTH OF MAY!!!!!!



As of 5/1/12:

I attended my first Indianapolis 500 in 1979 at the age of 9 yrs old & haven't missed one since. 32 in a row & counting.

First: 1979
Age: 9
Total 500's: 32
Consecutive 500's: 32

Looking forward to adding to that this month!!!

[Ren Butler]

First 1983 (age 6)
Total seen in person: 25 (1983, 1987-1990, 1992-2011)

Although the series has largely lost me as a supporter, Indy is still a great place to see an openish-wheel race. So I'll be there for #26.

[Truth Detector]

This will be:
Mom's 63rd
My 40th (all consecutive)
and my kids' 10th (all consecutive)

[cheeseczar]

1960 was my 2nd year in the snake pit. I was a junior in high school.
My friends and I were offered a seat on that scaffold and luckily we had enough sense to turn 'em down. We sat in the 2nd turn in our snake pit days, right up against the fence. The scaffold was on the north end in the 3rd turn.

I remember hearing about it during the radio broadcast. Like it was yesterday. I was 5.

[mitchbr]

First 500: 2002
7 y/o

Attended Since: 10

Consecutive: 10

To be 11 in 26 days!

[Martyj]

First: 1968

Age: 9

Total: 10

Consecutive streak: 0

[racer47201]

First one 1970 age 16, 79-86, 88-96,98, 09-11. First time at the track... Pole day 1967 to watch the whooshmobile!

[CrewChief]

First Race - 1971, Age - 10 months

Every race since then except:

1977 - For some reason I stayed with my grandparents that year and went to a family picnic back in NJ instead of the race. I do remember listening on the radio with my mom's uncle and loving AJ winning. I need to ask mom about why they left me home that year.

1986 - There scheduled race day but dad was scheduled to be flying somewhere when they ran the race the following Saturday so we didn't make it back.

1995 - Went to Charlotte on a VIP trip a friends company had setup.

1997 - Again there the scheduled race day but needed to back to PA for work and couldn't wait until Tuesday.

This year will be #38 for me, not bad for only 41 years on the planet. This year will be my older sons (age 8) forth straight and my younger one (age 5) will be attending his first.

[Herk]

First - 1950
Age - 6
total - 53 (counting this year)
Consecutive - 44 (1958 - 2001) 8 (2005 - 2011)

[hully25]

1965 and have not missed since. I have had tickets in N W vista since 1971.

[philbert3a]

First:1995
Age: 40
Total 500's:18
Consecutive: 18

Been a fan though since 1962 thanks to a transistor radio that I was first able to hear Sid Collins when I was 8 years old.

[McLaren11]

First: 1997 (But only the first 2 days!)
Age: 9
Total: 14
Consecutive: 1

I missed the '10 race because I was on a Rolex team racing at Lime Rock at the time.

[indycar3]

First race 1976, only missed 2001. Also have had the same seats in Grandstand E since 1976.

[Unzerdog]

First: 1991
Age: 18
consecutive: 20 listened to Cheever win via IMSRN while parked on the beach in Hatteras.
Attended: 2002

[vigo003]

First 2009
Age 25
Total 3
Consecutive 3 and will be 4

[Rick Jones]

1967 was my first 500 and the turbine captured the imagination of this nine year old kid. I have seen every 500 since! 45 in a row. God willing 2012 will be number 46.

[R22]

1966 - 78
80 - 83
87

96 -12

what is that like 34? just say enough to "know what INDY is"

dang y'all make me feel like a rookie!!!

[PHJIndy]

First race 1971. I was 14. The tickets had been a birthday present from my parents the previous November.

I've been to every 500 since except 1974 and 1975. Mom went through 2004. Alzheimer's has prevented her attending the race since then, though I did take her to practice in 2005. Last year was the first May since 1968 she wasn't at the track. My goal is to make the 100th 500. And I'm feeling good about my chances as I just learned this week that I have no sign of cancer now--truly a Christmas miracle!

[R22]

yups

[fastmaster26]

2003
- Indy
- Nazareth

2004
- Indy

2005
- Indy

2006
- Indy

2007
- Indy

2008
- Homestead
- St. Pete
- Indy

2009
- St. Pete
- Indy

2010
- Mid-Ohio

2011
- Indy
- New Hampshire
- Infineon
- Vegas

2012 (only 100% races, will likely add more)
- Indy
- Infineon
- Fontana

[sean26]

2003- Champ car Milwaukee
2004- Champ car Milwaukee, Indycar Chicagoland
2005- Indycar Chicagoland
2006- Champ car Milwaukee, Indycar Chicagoland
2007- Indycar Milwaukee, Champ Car Road America, Indycar Chicagoland
2008- St. Pete, Chicagoland
2009- Indy, Milwaukee, Chicagoland
2010- St. Pete, Chicagoland
2011- Indy, Milwaukee
2012- For sure- Indy, Milwaukee Maybe- Detroit Slight chance- Iowa, Mid Ohio, Fontana

[BSJracing]

1974-1987
1989-1991
1993-1995
1997-2004

Haven't been back since.

Was thinking of going back this year since I'll be in the area, but if the field is less than 33, well I won't support that.

[LowRyter]

first 500 was 1986
last was 1995
5 races total, 92-95 consecutively

have tickets in NE Vista this year. anyone think we'll get 226+ pole?