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Speedway Adding Five Video Screens
For Tower Terrace Seating
 
By Eric Powell
Brickyard.com
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway has signed a
multimillion-dollar agreement with Daktronics, Inc., to add
five large-screen video displays on the west side of the
2.5-mile oval's main straightaway, Speedway officials
announced today.
The state-of-the-art
Daktronics ProStarÒ
screens will allow fans seated on the east side of the main
straightaway - in the Tower Terrace grandstands, Tower Suites
and Gasoline Alley Suites - to watch racing action from every
corner of the Speedway's famous oval and road
course.
The screens, which represent
the third and final phase of a three-year video screen
installation project at the Speedway, will be installed in
time for the 85th Indianapolis 500 on May 27.
Additional advertising equipment also is being
installed.
"With this latest video
screen installation we will have completed another phase of a
landmark project that adds a great deal of entertainment value
for our fans," said Tony George, president and chief executive
officer of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. "For the first
time, almost every person sitting in a permanent seat at the
Speedway can keep abreast of action as it happens all around
the track. We are proud of the investments we have made in
this facility to increase fan comfort and
entertainment."
The video screen project
began in 1999 with the installation of seven ProStarÒ units in the oval's four
turns and along the backstretch. Six more screens were added
in 2000 on the eastside of the main straightaway. With the
addition of screens on the main straight's west side, there
will be 18 screens in the historic facility.
The project represents the
largest permanent installation of video screens at a sports
facility in the
world.
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