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You'll enjoy it. If R.A. is like others, it usually only costs $20-30 for a weekend pit pass.
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If only.
Last time I checked, it was $20 to see Friday qualifiying (within driving distance of Chicago)
Heck a weekend pass to anything worth watching is the better part of $100.
Always had a better use for that $100.
EAA, on the other hand is something like $40, and the show is a bit different every year. Let's see the planes I saw there
A B1, B52, B2, F4, F86, f117, a ww1 bomber, and just about every ww2 fighter that ever flew (for the us) including a rare P - 38 fighter.
Including 2 dozen P-51's (worth a good 1.8 million a piece). Got that picture around here somewhere.
Anyway, even remember Pete Egan (road and track, Cycle world contributing columnist) wrote a column about how the prices of watching a race went up.
In conclusion, a good 3 day weekend at road america is going to be the better part of 3 bills, only including the pass, food, beverages and not a hotel to stay at. Of which, there aren't that many even an hour's drive away.