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The 111th Indianapolis 500 is scheduled for Sunday, 30 May 2027. IMS opened 2027 ticket sales on 28 October with limited race-day inventory; General Admission and reserved grandstand tickets are different access routes.
01 · Event details
Timing: Sunday, 30 May 2027 · 111th running
Venue or host area: Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana, west of central Indianapolis. The map marker is a city/region locator, not a gate or parking location.
Access: IMS says race-day tickets are on sale and inventory is limited. Children 15 and under are admitted free in General Admission areas with a paying adult General Admission ticket; reserved seating requires a ticket for each person, regardless of age. Confirm current terms directly with IMS.
02 · Plan the visit
Use IMS's current event schedule, race-day ticket page and gate regulations for the latest session, parking and entry details. Parking and camping products are offered separately; use the event-year plan instead of carrying forward a previous year's gate or lot instructions.
03 · Location
Indiana's capital is built on a grid around a central circle, with the speedway a few kilometres north-west of downtown.
The airports serving Indianapolis and its region:
Connections, terminals and transfer arrangements change — confirm them with the airline and the organiser rather than planning around a fixed transfer time.
Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana, west of central Indianapolis. The map marker is a city/region locator, not a gate or parking location.
The catalogue marker shows Indianapolis, United States at city or region level only — it is not an entrance, a gate, a course or a transfer route. For the event’s position among its category peers, open the Wheel & motor overview and map.
04 · Overview
A 500-mile race on the 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval, run over 200 laps on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend. Thirty-three cars start, turning left 800 times at average speeds above 220 mph, with four distinct corners and a brick start-finish line that gives the track its nickname.
The 500 is the largest single-day sporting crowd in the United States and the oldest race of its kind still running at its original venue. The four-corner oval is the defining test of American open-wheel racing, and the month of May around it — practice, qualifying over two weekends, the pit-stop contest and the parade — is a civic ritual in Indiana rather than just a race. The winner drinks milk in victory lane, a tradition that dates from the 1930s.
The first Indianapolis 500 ran in 1911 on a track built in 1909 as a test facility for the American car industry. The race has been held every year since except 1917–18 and 1942–45, and it survived the split between CART and the Indy Racing League in the 1990s that divided American open-wheel racing for more than a decade. The speedway was paved with bricks in 1909 and resurfaced in 1961, with a strip of the original bricks kept at the start-finish line.
| First held | 1911 |
|---|---|
| 2027 edition | 111th running, Sunday 30 May |
| Circuit | 2.5-mile oval, 200 laps, 33 starters |
| Nickname | The Brickyard |
| Venue | Indianapolis Motor Speedway |
05 · Research & credits
Evidence and event information reviewed 2026-10-31. Published edition facts are separated from typical timing and historical context.
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