Brickyard 400, wine and cheese festival and other weekend events
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Start your engines — it's Brickyard baby.
Driving the news: NASCAR is back at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for a weekend of racing.
- The NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series Pennzoil 250 kicks things off Saturday and the NASCAR Cup Series Brickyard 400 is Sunday, when the series' top drivers will take to the famous oval.
If you go: Gates open at 10am Friday for practice, with drivers on track from noon-2pm. Tickets start at $20.
- Tickets for Saturday's race start at $40 and Sunday's at $45.
Here are our other weekend picks:
🏈 Watch one of the fastest growing sports in the country when the NFL Flag Championships for elementary to high school-aged kids take over Westfield's Grand Park all weekend.
- Games run from 9am-6pm Friday and Saturday and 10am-5:30pm Sunday. Free entry with NFL One Pass.
🎭 Rock out with bands your less cool friends have never heard of at Post. Festival, Friday and Saturday at the HI-FI and HI-FI Annex.
- Tickets start at $101.
🎭 Experience someone else's family feud when the Indianapolis Shakespeare Company puts on "King Lear," 8pm Friday and Saturday nights at the Taggart Memorial Amphitheatre at Riverside Park.
- Shows are free with a $30 premium ticket option.
🌮 Celebrate three years of Indy's best tacos (yeah, we said it) at Julieta's birthday party at the Stutz. The party starts at noon and runs until they sell out of tacos.
🍷 Eat wine and drink cheese … er, you know what we mean … at the Holy Cross Wine and Cheese Festival. One of our favorite events of the year, the festival is held on Sturm Avenue between Arsenal and State avenues.
- Admission is free, but tickets are required for food and drinks.
🎆 Keep America's 250th birthday bash going with the free Star Spangled Sky drone show at White River State Park on Saturday.
- Pre-show activities begin at 7pm; drones launch at dark.