2026 Indy 500 and Midget Madness tour
The 2016, 2018, 2019 and 2024 tours were all sold out! And the 2021 tour was sold out but fell victim to COVID. Based on the great success of these past tours we are keen to run an identical tour again in 2026. As with most pages on this website, we have left the specifics of the 2024 tour intact so you can read about it below.
In fact, you can now also read the 2024 Blog, which gives you a wonderful close-up story of what we got up to last year. Click on this link for the Blog.
Then read on below to double check you got it all in …..
Updated 5th, February 2024
Today brings forth the news that our 2024 Indy 500 and Midget Madness tour is now sold out. The House Full sign has to be hung out.
We will leave the tour information intact so you can read all about it and maybe consider travelling with us at another time.
The itinerary (in printable table format) for the 2024 tour is available at this link.
You will leave for the USA on May 20th, 2024 flying to the west coast of America and then on to Indianapolis, arriving same day. If not staying on in America, your return date into Australia will be early morning on Wednesday June 19th.
In 2024 we are fortunate that the six nights of Indiana Midget Week is followed by four nights of Illinois Midget Week across consecutive weeks. A short break between them means that we can also fit in two rounds of Ohio Sprintweek and one “Hell Tour” Late Model race in Peoria. Very convenient for thirteen consecutive, incredible nights of racing in three of the most outstanding classes of speedway competition in the world. Yes, 13 nights of racing in a row.
The 106th running of the greatest spectacle in motor racing – the Indy 500 (this year starring Kyle Larson) will have an attendance of up to 400,000, so you won’t be the only one there …..
The popularity and extent of dirt track racing in Indiana and other states through late May and early June is extraordinary.
Check out some more tour highlights that will be on offer to all the lucky folks who travel in 2024.
- The Tony Hulman Classic for USAC sprintcars at the storied Terre Haute Fairgrounds 1/2 mile.
- Two consecutive nights of USAC sprintcars at Circle City Raceway.
- Carb Day at the Indianapolis Speedway.
- Non-winged 410 sprintcars at Bloomington Speedway for the Josh Burton Memorial.
(If rain affected, we will instead go to the paved half mile oval at Lucas Oil Raceway and the Hoosier Hundred for Silver Crown cars.) - The spectacular Indy 500 Parade through Indianapolis downtown
- The incredible Little 500 at Anderson Speedway. 33 non-wing sprintcars on a quarter mile high banked paved track for 500 laps!
- Kokomo Speedway for the Bryan Clauson Indiana Double straight after the Indy 500
- The World of Outlaws sprintcars at Fremont Raceway in Ohio on Memorial Day
- Mosey on into Kentucky and tour the Jim Bean Distillery.
- Visit the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green.
- Visit the J&J Auto Racing sprintcar chassis fabricating shop in Tennessee.
- Spend the night in Memphis and walk the Beale Street on Bike Night experience.
- Optional visits to Graceland and Sun Studio
- Watch the new Extreme Outlaw midgets race at Doe Run Speedway in Missouri.
- See USAC non wing sprintcars at over two nights at Knoxville Raceway. The supports are the 360 and 410 winged cars!
- Watch the Badger midgets, Wisconsin wingless sprintcars and the MSA 360 winged sprintcars at the famous, history dripping Angell Park Speedway.
- Then six consecutive nights of USAC midgets at Circle City, Gas City, Putnamville, Bloomington, Tri-State and Kokomo.
- Two nights of 410 Sprintcars in Ohio Sprintweek at Wayne County and Hilltop speedways.
- The Hell Tour Super Late Models at Peoria Speedway.
- The four consecutive nights of POWRi midgets at Coles County, Jacksonville, Macon and Lincoln speedways.
- Oh …. and don’t forget the Indy 500 with Kyle Larson and 32 others.
Seven nights are spent in the Staybridge Suites in Fishers (a suburb of Indianapolis). Hotel rooms are virtually unprocurable in Indianapolis and surrounds across the Indy 500 week. And we already have reserved seats for the Indy 500 that are needed at this vast and historic complex. We’ll be on Turn 2.
The balance of the accommodation is in and around Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio and Illinois.
For every one of these 29 days you will be chauffeured around with your own driver in a Ford minibus. No worries about where to go and how to get there. Just sit back in air-conditioned comfort and arrive at the destination refreshed, hydrated and relaxed.
We only intend to take a limited number on this boutique tour and as we already have the minimum numbers needed to identify the tour as a goer, it is confirmed.
As at Wednesday January 10th, 2024 there is only one spot left on the tour. So, if you want that spot as yours, please drop us a line by clicking here. Or better still, give Pete Physick an immediate ring on 0419 264159 to confirm your place on the tour.
The pricing is shown on the Table format itinerary here and again on the Pricing page for this tour.
The popularity of this tour is such that we usually offer it for sale every second year.
Click here for the 2019 Indy Tour Blog to read all about our fun and adventures.
Rico Abreu at Putnamville
Steve Evans (small cup) and Russell Blackman (large cup) loved Indiana and Illinois Midget Weeks in 2016.
Dennis and Patricia Little inspect the cushion at Bloomington after Midget Week 2016
Russell at Belle Clair Speedway with his Illinois Midget Speedweek T-shirt.
John Ormsby, Peter and John Barnes at Gas City with the late Bryan Clauson in June 2016.
