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Kids are out of school, the car has 4 new tires, time to hit the track.  We headed out to community day at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.  The one day when you can drive your car around the track....provided you don't go over 30 mph.  It was a fun experience and an interesting one keeping the car up on the banked corners.

Come and take a trip around the track with us

After doing our lap at a blistering 25 mph we parked the car and headed into the action.  First stop - pit road.  They had it lined with cars from the last 100 years.  Rachel even managed to find one her size.

And of course you need a photo standing on the yard of bricks.  The bricks (which are the original surface of the speedway) are at the start/finish line and run across the track, pit road, and under the tower.

There was a solid line of cars circling the track all day, including this one.  He's holding up a license plate with "Wheldon" on it.  We saw several tributes to Dan Wheldon, last year's Indy 500 winner who killed in the last race of the season last year.

After taking in pit road we stopped at the winner's circle for a photo op.  Aaron said he wished he had a bottle of milk right about now. :)

Off to the garages where the crews were working on the cars getting them ready to roll on Sunday.  This is Helio Castroneves' garage. 

The kids got Alex Tagliani's autograph. They were doing autograph sessions in the afternoon, but the lines were huge just to get the wristbands that you needed to attend a session. Honestly, autographs aren't that big of a deal to me and (with a few exceptions) I probably wouldn't know if a driver walked right past me.

We took a tour of the timing and scoring floor up in the Pagoda.  This is the view of the finish line from there.

And then we check out one of the suites.  A seat in here on Sunday costs $750.  Or you could just rent out the entire room for your friends for a measly $195,000!

Before we left, Aaron got to have a fantasy moment and sit in the drivers seat of a new Chevy Camaro.

Or if the Camaro isn't your speed how's this one

We had to dodge a pace car on pit road....Corvette....Shiny!

It was a fun time.  In fact, Aaron and I came to the conclusion that this day was a lot more fun than sitting in the stands in the sun on Sunday will be.