Dallara IndyCar Factory

Terrible experience all around. We paid $ 30 just to get in the door only to find that there were no factory tours taking place. This could have been stated at the gate, not on a sign in the back corner of the place (that we would have had to pay another $ 5 each for). The «interactive» zone consisted of a couple of simulators that amounted to 10 year old video games at best. The «build your own Lego car and race it» was an absolute joke. There were enough pieces available to only make one car so not much of a race could be had. As for being able to sit in an Indy car there were 2 that literally had garbage piled up in the seat and on top of the car so they were not an option and the 1 the kids could sit in was 20 years old and not exciting for them at all. I love IndyCar Racing and was super excited to take our boys for a visit here. Biggest. Letdown. EVER!
Save your money and keep on going past this one

I came here for a company event and I was pretty disappointed. We did the STREET-​LEGAL 2 SEATER and it was very underwhelming. First of all I didn’t get a choice between the indycar or the nascar. I drew a ticket and landed on the nascar. I came to Indiana and I wanted to be in the indycar but they would not let me change. The STREET-​LEGAL 2 SEATER is just one lap around the block and it’s not a good experience. I would not recommend spending the money to do it.

The gorgeous Dallara IndyCar Factory located on Main Street in Speedway is becoming one of our favorite racing treasures. For those of you unfamiliar with Speedway, Dallara is just ¹⁄₃ of a mile southwest of Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) so within walking distance if you’re at IMS for trials, qualifications, race or touring the museum. If you’re downtown it’s just 5 miles away so a great bike ride or quick car trip. Numerous restaurants, art & antique shops, yogurt and coffee shops are right on Main. We even have a new Community Health Center with Med Check if you find yourself needing medical care.
The 202,000 square foot facility is humongous with over 20,000 sq. ft. of interactive and hands-​on exhibits. This place is so cool for all us race-​enthusiasts or even if you’ve never seen a race car. Take a factory tour to see how the future IndyCars are assembled and tested! Experience the wind tunnel models; try out the interactive exhibits and coming very soon the racing simulators. The Dallara Theater will give you a past, present and future of Dallara. Love those sleek car designs, well Dallara has the current IndyCar’s blueprints and design concept drawings you can view.
Take a factory tour, enjoy the Dallara Interactive Area or take a ride in the street legal 2-​seater IndyCar or try it all. For all you corporate decision makers, check out Dallara for a race-​themed outing or a team-​building opportunity. Sure beats those stuffy hotel conference rooms I’ve spent hours in. Group of 5 – 40 people are perfect. They also offer over 35,000 sq. ft. of meeting space perfect for banquet style dinners and receptions and you’ll have a race-​themed décor to match. Talk about keeping your guests busy after a wedding or company function.
I’m currently working on a «Race Themed birthday party then a special Race Friends Reunion at Dallara. Very little work for me since Lino’s Coffee (in same building) provides the food and cakes then we’ll go play on the racing simulators, take the factory tour and get pictures in one of the IndyCars. If weather permits, we’ll all go for a ride in the 2-​seater IndyCar. Can you hear the Pointer Sisters singing «I’m so excited»??
Prices are really reasonable. Here’s the prices so jump on your bike, walk over or grab the car keys and visit Dallara IndyCar Factory.
Dallara Interactive Area — Adult $ 10, Under 12 is $ 5 and 4 yrs. old and under is FREE. Factory Tours are 11:00am, 1:00pm, 2:00 and 3:00pm Monday — Saturday. ONLY $ 5.00! Grab a ride in the Street Legal 2-​seater IndyCar for $ 30.00 (actual race car driver) and SOOO fun! Last but not least, get a Green Screen Photo opt for $ 15.00.

This was a great place for a corporate event. We had about 40 people there, and we had out pictures taken with an Indycar in front of a green screen. Sounds kind of silly, but people loved it! It’s amazing how quickly the camera bug bites when there are props involved… Especially when one of the props is a cool-​looking car.
The space itself has some great cars in the front area. They then take you back towards the factory to watch a short movie about the history of Dellara Automobili. When the movie is over, they open up a garage door for a tour of the factory. It’s really amazing to see how clean and relatively sparse it all is. It doesn’t seem like a «factory» like you’d imagine it (or at least not the way I imagined it), but it’s pretty impressive all the same. They also showed a giant hole in the ground, which doesn’t seem that cool until you learn about the cool new state-​of-​the-​art driving simulator they are going to install there. It’s only the third in the world, and it will be the first in the US (the other two are in Italy).
When we finished the tour, we got to play around with some slightly less cutting edge driving simulators, which was a lot of fun. What was even more fun was watching how competitive some of our group became (and how many of us were «disqualified» for reckless driving). There’s also a great coffee bar attached, which serves really delicious Italian coffee. The staff was really nice and answered all our questions, even though most of the people in the crowd were definitely not super knowledgeable about racing. The space is brand new, so it’s really modern and airy. Definitely highly recommended for any racing fans or wanna-​be fans, and a fun and different spot for a group event.