Racing Legend Bill Simpson To Host IMS Museum “Kiss The Bricks” Tours For Charity

Behind-the-Scenes Narrated Tours to Benefit Animal Shelter

INDIANAPOLIS, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018 – Motorsports legend Bill Simpson will serve as VIP tour guide at Indianapolis Motor Speedway for select groups of race fans on Thursday Aug. 30. Simpson will host two “Kiss the Bricks” tours for the IMS Museum.

Simpson, a 1974 Indianapolis 500 starter and legend in the motorsports industry for his revolutionary safety products, will be the featured host for “Kiss the Bricks” tours of IMS at 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. (ET), on the 30th.

Tickets for the Simpson-led tours are $30 per person, and $10 from each ticket will be donated to the Southside Animal Shelter in Indianapolis. Contact the IMS Museum at msmith@brickyard.com or call (317) 492-6784 to reserve your seats.

Kiss the Bricks tours include a lap around the world-renowned 2.5-mile IMS oval, via bus or tram. The highlight of the tour, which normally lasts 20-30 minutes, is a stop at the famed “Yard of Bricks” at the IMS start/finish line – a 3-foot strip of the original, 1909-vintage paving bricks used to pave the Speedway.

Tour guests are invited to exit the vehicles and walk the track surface near the start/finish line, and literally kiss the Yard of Bricks, a tradition that each IMS race winner has renewed since NASCAR driver Dale Jarrett, and his crew chief, Todd Parrott, started it in 1996.

Tickets for the Simpson tours are available for the tours on a first-come, first-served basis. Only 31 seats are available per tour.

Simpson’s greatest contribution to motorsports has been through his commitment to the improvements and manufacturing of a wide variety of safety products – especially driver gear such as helmets, fire suits, gloves, shoes and race car safety belts. He got his start by introducing the drag racing parachute in 1959, however.

His company, Simpson Race Products, revolutionized driver safety by introducing the fireproof driver’s suit in 1964. Bill Simpson demonstrated its effectiveness several times over the years by being lighted on fire while wearing the suit. Simpson founded a second safety products company, Impact! Racing, in 2002, and sold it in 2010.

He was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2003.

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