INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — When you listen to the new edition of the Behind the Bricks podcast, you’ll quickly realize a trip to Indianapolis Motor Speedway should be tastier this May.

“Food has gotten a boost,” Zach Horrall, Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s digital marketing manager, told News 8. “One big project over the off season was to improve a lot of our concession stands and really It’s a back-end thing. Fans may not necessarily see it, but the goal is to get hot food out to them quicker than we have in the past so the lines can keep moving and so the fans can get back to their seats much quicker.”

In the podcast, IMS and NTT IndyCar Series President Doug Boles takes race fans to a grandstand concession stand.

“This kitchen was a lot smaller last year. You couldn’t create the fresh food that we can create, get it through the window and serve you really, really quickly,” he explained, pointing out the new improvements. “Right here in the kitchen: all brand-new fryers, grill, everything we need to pass things through the window and get it to you as quickly as possible so you can get back to the action.”

The pod also invites fans at the track to take a moment to look up – at the decades-old roof structures along the main straightaway.

“We spent the off-season really scraping off what was there, checking the infrastructure and making sure that the roof and the metal was sound, and then repainting it all to make it up-to-date and really feel like a bit of a new or freshened-up experience,” Boles said.

Just across the track, the off-season’s highest-tech addition shines. It’s a massive HD screen that hangs over the entrance to Gasoline Alley.

“There’s been a TV there. It was great, it served a purpose, but it was getting a little bit dated,” Horrall admitted. “So we spent this offseason putting a new HDTV up there for people in those Paddock grand stands…And that’ll really help with that fan experience and for people that are sitting right there to see what else is going on everywhere else on the track.”

To watch the new episode of “Behind the Bricks,” scroll down. To listen on-the-go, grab the pod through the All Indiana Podcast Network.

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