Today was something I have wanted to do for a long time. An Indycar race. I have been a fan since the 90’s when it was called CART, then Champcar and now Indycar. We decided to go to Missouri then I realized there was a race in Iowa so we went.

We got there at 9:00 this morning. We had paddock passes so we could walk around the garages and all the team trucks. There was only one team I was interested in seeing. Team Penske. It was interesting to see them working on the cars in the garage.

Josef Newgarden’s car…

Simon Pagenaud’s car is the yellow one, Will Power the silver…

Me with Will Power’s car. I have been a fan of his for a looooong time…

Right before they introduced the drivers, I ran into Josef Newgarden!

We had tickets for the stands to watch the race, but I could not pull myself away from watching from behind the pits.

And along came the man himself, Roger Penske…

The race was really cool. Iowa is a short track so a lap takes only like 18 seconds with the cars traveling in the 170’s mph. There were only two yellow flags so the race took just over two hours. After it was over we waited around and I finally was able to get a picture with Will Power…

So we basically stood up from 9:00am until 4:30pm out in the sun. Needless to say we are tired and sunburned. But for me, it was worth it. This really makes me want to go to more races in the future.

Tomorrow, we head to St. Louis.