That was not a drone. I was there on Friday and Saturday, sat in apron seats around the eighth pole, and what you saw in the replay is a camera (maybe NBC) on a cable around 20 feet in the air. It looked to me, to run along most of the stretch to past the finish line. It would fly by in front of us during each race.
Leaving the races on Saturday after the Classic we saw them taking the camera down outside the grandstands from what looked like a telephone pole mount.
I did not see any drones around while there, but I guess it is possible they were used some place else on the track.
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