Let me talk about what we actually do at Racing Passport.

There is a question we get asked a lot when someone hears the name for the first time. “Wait. Is this a travel agency? A tour company? A media brand? A club? Are you guys, like, with the teams?”

The answer is yes to most of those things, in a sense. The cleanest way to say it is this. Racing Passport plans race weekend trips for people who want to actually experience motorsport in person, at the level the sport deserves to be experienced at. Not watch-a-race-from-a-folding-chair-in-a-parking-lot travel. Not buy-a-generic-package-off-a-website-that-auto-emails-you-a-PDF-voucher travel. The trip you would build for yourself if you had thirty years of relationships at the track, and you already knew which hotel, which grandstand, which Thursday morning, and which gate matters.

That trip. We plan it for you.

Where this came from

A little background, because the credibility matters and the credibility is the whole point.

I am Robert Earl. I have been around motorsport for forty years. Pit crew at age fifteen on a late model stock car in the Pacific Northwest. My grandfather sat me down in front of a transistor radio in Oregon and let the IMS Radio Network bring the Indianapolis 500 into the room. That is where it started. I have attended every Indianapolis 500 since 2000. That is twenty-seven straight, and I am not missing twenty-eight. (The full origin story is on the About page.)

Over those twenty-seven years a thing started happening, and it is how Racing Passport actually got built. Friends would call. They wanted to come to the 500. They did not know where to stay. They did not know which tickets were the good ones. They did not know what to do Thursday or Friday or Saturday before the race. They did not know which gate to enter through. They did not know how to handle the parking situation, the traffic exit pattern, the right time to leave the hotel race morning, the right place to grab breakfast, the right post-race bar to land at when downtown is wall to wall.

They wanted what I had, which was the trip planned by someone who lives the weekend. So we started planning those trips. It grew from there. The 500 first. Then other races on the calendar where the same problem exists. F1 weekends in Europe and Asia and the Middle East. NASCAR Cup weekends at the tracks worth flying to. The Rolex 24 at Daytona. The Daytona 500. Now we have a whole calendar, and a team, and a network of partners that lets us do real work at the events that matter.

Racing Passport is the business that grew out of those phone calls.

Pencil illustration of two IndyCars crossing the finish line at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway with the Pagoda in the background

How to think about what we do

Imagine you had a friend who happened to be a credentialed motorsport insider. A Roadtrips All-Star Sports Travel Specialist. Plugged into the Ensemble Travel network. Inside the Rainbow Getaways Travel Network as the host agency. Twenty-seven straight Indianapolis 500s on the resume. Friends with drivers, team principals, hospitality coordinators, hotel general managers in the right zones near the right tracks, and the people who hold the keys to the access that you cannot buy on Ticketmaster.

Now imagine that friend’s actual job, the thing he does all day, is plan the race weekend you want to go to.

That is Racing Passport. That is the whole service.

You tell us the race, the group, the budget range, and any preferences you already have. We come back with a plan. The plan covers everything that goes into the trip. Hotel selection and booking, inside the zone that matters for that specific track. Race tickets at the viewing tier you actually want, with a clear breakdown of why this grandstand and not that one. Transfers, including private transfers on race day so you are not stuck in post-race traffic for ninety minutes. Pre-race garage tours, paddock access, or pit lane access wherever we can include them. Pre-arranged group dinners at the right places. Post-race plans, because the post-race plan is part of the trip. Side trips on the days flanking the race weekend.

Anything else the trip needs.

You decide what fits. We book it. You travel. We are available throughout the weekend if anything needs to change, because something always does.

There is no brochure to flip through. There is no pick-a-package funnel. There is a conversation. One conversation usually gets us about eighty percent of the way to a draft trip. A second call locks in the details. The whole exercise takes a fraction of the time it would take you to DIY it from scratch, and the trip ends up materially better than the DIY version, because we already know the answers to all the questions you would spend three months researching.

The two tiers

There are two ways to engage with Racing Passport.

The Curated Trip. The standard product, and it is excellent. Robert and his team plan the trip end to end. Hotel, tickets, transfers, hospitality, side activities, the whole weekend. Built around your group and your priorities. Every detail handled by a human who has been to the race. Available for every event on our calendar. (The What We Do page goes deeper on how the tiers compare.)

The Racing Passport. The upgrade. Same curated trip foundation, but with insider-only access events layered on top. The moments the broadcast never shows. Garage tours. Grid walks. Pit lane access. Victory Lane after the race. Driver appearances. Hospitality settings where you find yourself standing next to a team principal at a buffet talking about strategy. The Racing Passport is available for select events where we have the relationships to make it work. The 2027 Indianapolis 500 is the flagship. The 2026 USGP at Austin. The Rolex 24 at Daytona. A few others.

For the events where Robert is personally on-site, you get the additional benefit of him being your host on the ground. He is not on the ground at every race. We do not pretend otherwise. The races where Robert is hosting in the 2026-2027 calendar are the Indianapolis 500, the USGP at Austin (invitation only and small), the Rolex 24 at Daytona, and the NASCAR Championship Weekend at Homestead if enough interest forms to build a group.

The calendar we are booking

Here are the races on the Racing Passport calendar right now.

Indianapolis 500. May 30, 2027. The 111th running. The flagship trip on the Racing Passport calendar. Two ways in. Hosted by Robert on the ground.

Monaco Grand Prix. May 20-24, 2027. The Triple Crown race. Hotel de Paris Monte-Carlo or Hotel Hermitage. Yacht hospitality on the harbor. Paddock Club available. The bucket list trip every F1 fan eventually wants to take.

Italian Grand Prix. September 3-7, 2026. Autodromo Nazionale Monza. Ferrari’s home race, in their home country, with the tifosi in the grandstands. Bvlgari Milano base, with easy Lake Como extension.

Singapore Grand Prix. October 8-12, 2026. Marina Bay Street Circuit. F1 under the lights. The only night race on the calendar that is actually a night race start to finish.

United States Grand Prix. October 22-26, 2026. Circuit of the Americas, Austin. Robert is hosting. Invitation only.

Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. December 3-7, 2026. Yas Marina Circuit. The F1 season finale. Ritz-Carlton or Rosewood, paddock hospitality, easy Dubai extension.

Las Vegas Grand Prix. November 18-22, 2026. F1 down the Strip after dark.

Miami Grand Prix. April 29 to May 3, 2027.

Rolex 24 at Daytona. January 28-31, 2027. Twenty-four hours of sports car racing. Robert is on-site.

Daytona 500. February 2027. The Great American Race.

NASCAR weekends. Brickyard 400 at IMS in late July. Richmond. Darlington Southern 500 to open the Playoffs. Bristol Night Race. Talladega. Homestead Championship Weekend in November where the title gets decided.

For everything else, we can build the trip too. The races on the page are the ones we have inventory and relationships for right now. If your bucket list race is not on the page, send us a note. There is a very good chance we can plan it. (Browse the full calendar at Upcoming Trips or scan the season schedules by series: F1, NASCAR, IndyCar, IMSA.)

Beyond racing

We also build dream trips for non-racing events through the broader travel network. The Masters. Wimbledon. The Super Bowl. The Kentucky Derby. The Olympics. The World Cup. Racing is the specialty, but the relationships we have inside Roadtrips, Ensemble, and Rainbow Getaways extend across every category of bucket list sports travel. One inquiry. The right specialist on the trip.

How to start a conversation

Here is what happens when you reach out.

The inquiry form on racingpassport.com takes about two minutes. It asks the basics. Which race, your group size, your dates, hotel preference, viewing tier, any specific requests. There is space for “I do not know what I want yet, talk to me,” which is a legitimate answer and a great place to start.

Robert reads every inquiry personally. There are no automated email sequences that go out at strategic intervals. There is no sales rep who phones you at 7 pm with a check-in. Robert replies usually within twenty-four hours, normally with specific questions and a rough direction for the trip.

From there it is a conversation. Usually one or two calls. The trip takes shape during the calls. You see the proposal in writing, with the hotel options, the ticket tier, the inclusions, the price. You decide what fits. We book it.

We hold your booking through the trip itself. On-site assistance is included for every weekend we plan. If something needs to change, we change it. The kind of attention you would get from a personal travel advisor, because that is what we are.

Why the timing matters

Most people who book with Racing Passport come back the next year.

The first trip is usually their bucket list race. The Indy 500 they always meant to get to. Or Monaco. Or the Rolex 24. The second trip is a different bucket list race they did not realize they could plan with the same person. By the third trip they have a Racing Passport rhythm, and they are planning the calendar a year out instead of three months out.

That is the pattern, and it is the pattern because going to a race weekend at the level we plan it is, frankly, a different experience than going to one without us. We are not going to oversell that. We are going to say it plainly. Once you have done a race weekend with the hotel zone right, the tickets right, the transfers handled, and the side access included, going back to a Ticketmaster-and-Hilton-Honors trip feels like a downgrade you do not want to make.

If a race weekend is on your list, the right time to plan it is now. The good hotels close earliest. The grandstands that are actually worth sitting in close earliest. Monaco inventory closes a year out. Indianapolis 500 inventory we hold ahead, but only so much of it. The bucket list trips that get put off another year usually stay on the list for a decade after that, because nobody ever makes them the actual project.

Send us a note. The conversation is where the trip gets built.

Robert and his team plan it. You travel.