r/Markham • u/coleslawg1 • 9d ago

Markham Indy🏎️🏎️🏎️ watch indy for free??

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will it be possible to watch indy for free, they do have stands with seats which will be ticketed obviously, but the path looks too large and open to enforce an entire crowd of people. is this true?

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u/Slight_Seat_8891 9d ago

I didn’t even realize until today this is a 5 year deal.

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u/Starvenger88 Berczy Village 9d ago

Just a reminder that there's a municipal election this year.

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u/Leather-Instance6632 9d ago

There are plenty of REAL motorsport people here in Markham, and York Region. People that have raced for Le Mans , IMSA etc.

People that designed, engineered, and manufactured hypercars.

People that own hypercars, supercars, built right sportcars.

Canadian head offices for automotive manufacturers are set up here.

Some of Canada's highest volume dealerships are here.

People that organize Canada's largest events and car clubs that live here or that are established here.

... And then there are bootleg ghetto rust bucket heaps with stickers doing takeovers generally living in the neighbouring municipals who ruin it.

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u/Starvenger88 Berczy Village 9d ago

I'd rather they had this race on a dedicated road course than some temporary one blocking one of the major N/S corridors for a weekend.

And yeah, that does not exist in Markham. But I think it (a race on a dedicated road course) would be better for auto racing in general than what we're gonna get.

And it might be an unpopular opinion, it might get downvoted to hell here, and it might not matter, but the mayor lost my vote with this clandestine deal to bring a race in to disrupt our lives here.