INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The rush to leave central Indiana after this year’s Indianapolis 500 started early Monday morning, according to officials at the Indianapolis International Airport.

This year, the airport estimated more than 70,000 people would fly out of IND during Memorial Day weekend.

That’s considerably fewer than the 111,000 people who flew out during the same weekend last year, which set a record.

Among the passengers were plenty of racing fans.

Dave Gaspar was traveling back to California around 5:40 Monday morning. He went to his first-ever Indy 500.

“it was quite spectacular, you know. They just, the venue, the nu...