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IndyCar Stuck With $925,000 Bill To Bail Out A Race That Never Happened
IndyCar Stuck With $925,000 Bill To Bail Out A Race That Never Happened-January 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:11:30

The in April left fans out of ticket money and the organizers lacking $1.67 million to reimburse them, and a settlement announced on Thursday means IndyCar will pick up a large part of the bill. But that doesn’t even begin to fix the mess.

The race would have been the inaugural running of the Grand Prix of Boston for IndyCar, taking place on a 2.2-mile temporary street course during Labor Day weekend. The relationship between race promoters and the city went downhill, with president of the former Grand Prix of Boston group John Casey saying the city had “endless, unrealistic demands.” In the ultimate finger-pointing match, the city called the group disorganized and unwilling to work to save the race.

reports that the Grand Prix filed for bankruptcy on Tuesday, with $10,909 in the bank, two show cars worth around $50,000 and 12o concrete barriers to its name. The filing listed all of the people owed money by the race, including the fans who received a guarantee of ticket refund upon an event cancelation.

IndyCar’s portion of the ticket bill—originally totaling $2,086,798—will cover $925,000 after coming to an agreement with Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, according to ESPN. More than 4,000 people bought tickets to the race, and organizers only had about $400,000 for refunds after its cancelation.

Even with the monetary help, the attorney general filed a lawsuit against Boston Grand Prix LLC and manager John Casey for the remaining money owed to those who purchased tickets. According to the , the suit accuses both Casey and the company of “selling tickets and spending the proceeds when they should have known the race was in trouble.” From the Boston Globe:

“Boston Grand Prix and [Casey] knew full well when they marketed and sold this event that they didn’t have the resources or permits to make it happen,” Healey said in a statement. “They failed to protect consumers, and we will do all we can to hold them accountable.”

ESPN reports that IndyCar said the Grand Prix of Boston owes the series as much as $4.2 million, and a statement from Healey’s office said she’s investigating where all of the ticket proceeds went. From the Boston Globe:

An affidavit filed in the case says one of Healey’s financial investigators found $55,000 in checks written from Boston Grand Prix accounts to Casey in the three months before the race was canceled, and $175,209 in checks between June 2015 and April 2016 to Casey Summit LLC, a company managed by Casey.

“Many of the transactions listed in BGP’s bank records through April 30, 2016, totaling tens of thousands of dollars, appear to be of a personal nature,” wrote investigator Shannon Roark. She listed as examples: transactions with ticket broker StubHub, the clothing store Vineyard Vines, Sirius XM radio, the on-line store of electronics retailer Best Buy, and Stop & Shop supermarket in Danvers.

There are several other lawsuits against the company, according to the Boston Globe. On the other hand, Healey praised IndyCar as being “a productive part of this solution.”

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