Maura Healey sends letters to IndyCar ticket holders to figure out refunds
Ticket holders for Boston’s canceled IndyCar race had hoped to spend this Labor Day weekend watching cars race through the streets of the Seaport District.
Instead, they’re receiving letters from Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, as the state tries to figure out how to refund the remaining money the bankrupt Boston Grand Prix has failed to pay back.
Healey’s office sent a letter Wednesday to 1,700 people who bought tickets to ascertain which ones were eligible to be reimbursed money from the $925,000 settlement the attorney general reached with the national IndyCar body.
Boston Grand Prix, the local organizing entity, only refunded $400,000 of more than $2 million in ticket sales before it filed for bankruptcy in early July. Additionally, as the letter notes, some buyers had the charges halted by their credit card companies.
Healey’s letter asks that those who have had their money reimbursed fill out an attached form and mail it back by September 30.
Healey is also suing Boston Grand Prix for promoting and selling race tickets, despite not yet securing the requisite funds or permits to hold the event. The group is also being sued by IndyCar, as well as a number of race partners and sponsors.
As The Boston Globe reported, Boston Grand Prix’s bankruptcy filings showed that the group owed nearly $9 million in liabilities, but had less than $11,000 in cash assets, as well as two $50,000 cars.
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