Racing fans wait for water in lengthy lines at Trump’s Grand Prix: report
Attendees of President Donald Trump’s Freedom 250 Grand Prix were captured on video Sunday waiting in long lines for water by Washington, D.C.-based journalist Amanda Moore, who expressed confusion at the Trump administration’s planning for the event.
“This is one of the lines for water at the Freedom 250 Grand Prix,” Moore wrote in a social media post on X, alongside a video of countless people lined up in front of a booth with a banner reading: “WATER.” “People in the front told me they have been waiting for half an hour.”
Highs in D.C. hit 84 degrees Saturday, according to the National Weather Service.
The event has been touted by Trump as D.C.’s first-ever IndyCar race, and the president took an honorary lap Sunday in his motorcade around the near-1.7-mile track through D.C.’s streets. The streets of the nation’s capital, however, are notoriously “bumpy,” as countless critics have noted, a factor that has already caused drivers issues.
The race’s drivers apparently weren’t the only ones facing issues, with Moore detailing her own experience at the event and the challenges of obtaining water.
“You can only get drinks in the middle, so if you are on the sides where you can see the actual track, you also have to stand in line to get bridge access to cross the track,” Moore wrote in a follow-up social media post. “I’m at turn 2 and still a long, slow line to the pedestrian bridge over the track to get back to the water, so I guess once my bottle is empty I just leave?”
The Freedom 250 Grand Prix marks the first-ever IndyCar street race held in the nation's capital, run on a 1.66-mile, seven-turn temporary circuit weaving past the U.S. Capitol and Washington Monument.
This is one of the lines for water at the Freedom 250 Grand Prix. People in the front told me they have been waiting for half an hour. pic.twitter.com/sR3CeusTbh
— amanda moore 🐢 (@noturtlesoup17) August 23, 2026