INDIANAPOLIS -- For the first time in at least 20 years, all reserved seats for the Indianapolis 500 have sold out.
The anchor race of the Verizon IndyCar Series has been experiencing a slow but steady growth in attendance since 2011, said Indianapolis Motor Speedway president Doug Boles. But capitalizing on the publicity of this being the 100th running of the historic event, this is the first time that all of the nearly 250,000 grandstand seats were sold in advance since the early 1990s.
"Every Indianapolis 500 is special, but the buzz surrounding the 100th running has been building for nearly a year," Boles stated from the steps of the Indiana Statehouse, where he was joined by Indiana Gov.