I bid 00 for 4 two-day general admittance tickets with paddock passes and lost: winning bid was 00.
I bid $1100 for 4 two-day general admittance tickets with paddock passes and lost: winning bid was $1300.
I don't know what's crazier -- the tickets selling for $1300, or you bidding $1100 for them. I haven't got my tickets yet, but I just have a pair of GA and some seats at Turn 11. By the time I got through on the phone, the paddock was sold out. You can get generic GA tickets for $75 on their web site, FYI. The paddock would be OK, but it's basically an AMA paddock, not the GP, and only the suite ticket holders can actually get to the GP pits. Though it would be nice to be their in the winner circle when Nicky makes podium at home ;-). Regards, Will Hartung ()
Actually, they were. I've got 2 paddock 2 GA and 1 parade lap. And a room at the Marriot. -- Gopher 33 28 19N 112 01 49W '77 CB750K '78 CB750K '00 ZG1000 '96 Ducati 900SS **********pull 'mychain' to reply*********** ("I've abandoned the idea of trying to appear a normal, pleasant person. I had to accept myself as I was, even if no one else could accept me. For the rest of my life I would continue to say precisely the wrong thing, touch people in the raw and be generally unpopular. I had a natural gift for it" W. F. Temple)
Agreed! But two I would have sold on ebay again the week before the race, paying for my two. Oh well! Turn 11 seating should be nice. Though I don't know why they call it Turn11 when it is actually the pit straight. You can see the exit of T11 but the new garages are in the way so you don't see much else except ehm coming down the hill at T9. But with the Big screen tv, full view of the start and pits, it should be nice. I don't like that spot for a two-hour car race but for a 45-min bike race, very cool. Oh, I know. The auction was all about the paddock passes. A paddock pass alone without GA sold earlier this week for over $350. More than "OK", just for the podium! Also the backdoor to the garages are usually open so you are at least close to them and might see some people and machines going back and forth from the trucks.
As I recall GA was available early, and, yea, it doesn't surprise me about the Paddock. Since I wanted to try and get one of the packages, I waited (I figured it would be a "what the heck once-in-a-lifetime" splurge on the GP thing). Then I couldn't get the paddock either. I think that there's going to be teeming masses both in and out of the paddock. It's going to be chaos. I'll get my paddock fix this weekend at Fontana. You coming down Mark?? Regards, Will Hartung ()
For Grand-Am? Not the same! But I'll be there on Sunday. Any day at the track is better than not at the track. Check out craigslist.org: if you do not already have tickets, there are a bunch for sale there,but mostly Saturday passes. Some sponsor must have dumped a lot of complimentary tickets.
