Angela, Claudia and I headed down to Exhibition Place today to take in the free Honda Indy Day. Gillian was unable to come with us this year since she is taking summer school. She is fast tracking her grade 12 physics, so she can take french as well next year. Here are the girls next to a set of tires.
Due to the heat we went down earlier, so we walked around the Indy Car Paddock. Each team has trailers like these, and if you wait long enough, a driver might come out and sign autographs.
Part of the car from E.J. Visio’s car.
The Paddock area gas station.
Some of the crew working on Takuma Sato’s car. He drives for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing.
William Ashley China custom-designed the Honda Indy Toronto commemorative trophies. The official Honda Indy show car was on display with each tire supported by one bone china teacup, demonstrating the strength of bone china.
A full dinner table with all the place settings.
As always the Free Friday lets you sit anywhere. We like the grandstand behind pit lane.
Looking over towards the air-conditioned Direct Energy Centre. With the temperature reaching 35 degrees C it was a busy place.
James Hinchcliffe out for his practice run.
After the practice round we headed over to where the cars and drivers go by to get back to the paddock.
Claudia.
Angela.
The paddock area was busy after the first practice session,
One of the Firestone tires from the practice session.
Angela and Claudia posing in the winners area.
Honda is the major sponsor and they sponsored the free friday.
