The Thermal Club has shared its plans to sell tickets for March’s three-day NTT IndyCar Series test and its $1 Million Challenge all-star race at its private road course located on the outskirts of Palm Springs, California.
The track intends to sell general admission tickets to the public at $2000 apiece for the March 22-24 event and has capped overall attendance at 5000 people. Last year’s IndyCar pre-season testing event at the Thermal Club had approximately 2500 attendees, including the teams, series and staff to run and support the event. According to the circuit, the $2000 ticket includes lunch for all three days.
Tickets for members of the Thermal Club are $300, $2000 for their guests and, as the track states, “members and their guests will have access to pit row.” The track plans to install “bleachers and several hospitality suites on the dirt berm on Rogers Road,” which runs from Turns 6-7.
The series has asked the Thermal Club to make tickets available to members of its official fan club, IndyCar Nation, and all other fans; the track has chosen Ticketmaster as its sales agent. Tickets go on sale next week.
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Thermal’s $1 Million Challenge non-championship IndyCar event is the facility’s first foray into opening its secured doors to the public. The first two days of the event are scheduled for testing, with Sunday reserved for the all-star race that will be aired live on NBC.
As noted by a number of fans, Thermal’s $2000 general admission price is in the cost vicinity of the upcoming Las Vegas Grand Prix Formula 1 race. General admission tickets are sold out for the F1 event, but of the handful of basic grandstand seats that remain available, prices in the $2750 range are available for those who want to sit across from pit lane and the start/finish line.