For 60 years, two brothers from Clermont, Indiana have been at the raceway for all six days of racing, except one time.
CLERMONT— One hot September afternoon, Bill and Mike Scott are sitting at the top of the bleachers at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway. They say it's the best view and have been sitting in section SS since 1971.
"We over slept in '71 and missed out on our seats on the other side so we came over here and have been here ever since," said Mike Scott."It was 1964. I was 7, he was 11 we came by ourselves. Our dad just dropped us off and said climb under the fence there and we came spent the day," said Mike. "Yea we were instantly hooked, first night, first car we heard we were like this is it," said Bill Scott.My granddaughter 17 years ago on Wednesday, that day was the last time I missed a day," said Mike."The first one I had was ’69 and it was a five day pass and I think it was 15 dollars it might have been 20 for the whole week like we said we were in when it was still fairly cheap, of course it wasn’t cheap to us," said Bill.
Spending all this time at the raceway means they've met people from all over and made a lot of family memories. "The brothers I don’t always see that much, but we spend five to six days over here, we have friends from Michigan, just there’s been several friends through the years that we’ve gotten to know. It’s more than just a drag race," said Mike.
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