ToyYoda
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Wow!
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Charlie Spencer
Road courses and short tracks.
Turn the clock back 20 years and the crowds in those pictures could almost have been reversed.
Charlie Spencer
Road courses and short tracks.
I never got this guy. Was he some celebrity I never heard of, or just some ad character whose opinion I was supposed to value?
ToyYoda
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True, in 1996 the NASCAR Indy race still had some novelty, and in IndyCar the CART/IRL split had just taken place.
breatheoflife
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C'mon! Thats the most interesting man in the world.
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Charlie Spencer
Road courses and short tracks.
Oh, I know the ad campaign, I just don't know why I should be influenced by this guy's opinion. He always struck me as some third string drug lord. I also get him mixed up with that blue-bottled tequila salesman. Apparently he wasn't as interesting as I was expected to believe.
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I agree. It is quite a stark contrast, though.
jws926
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I am curious, was the low attendance today caused by the lack of on track action, or is it tied to the lower attendance at most of the other race tracks. I would like to see attendance numbers going back to say 2003 to see when it started going down.
One side can blame the track, the other side can blame NASCAR.
One side can blame the track, the other side can blame NASCAR.
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I thought that was you, Charlie.
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The Indy 500 never came close to bottoming out like this. The smallest Indy crowd was probably in the 150-175k range.
The Brickyard 400 was just such big event prior to the tire fiasco. Ugh...depressing to see..
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I quit watching the Indy 500 about 20 years ago.
Source? I googled and can't find the Number anywhere..
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A large portion of it is the price-gouging on behalf of hotels. I was out of town a few weeks ago and stayed in a hotel when there was an event in town. Normal price for 1 night is usually $89, but for that weekend the lowest price was $275...and that's for a bare-bones room. I can't imagine how bad it would be if NASCAR was in town.
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ESPN article...not the type of headline NASCAR wants on ESPN.com...
http://espn.go.com/racing/nascar/cu...big-news-another-dreadful-brickyard-bore-fest
http://espn.go.com/racing/nascar/cu...big-news-another-dreadful-brickyard-bore-fest
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Kyle18fan
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The royal family of Nascar
Charlie Spencer
Road courses and short tracks.
All of the above, plus relatively high ticket prices compared to other tracks, and some fans who've learned the hard way that you can't see most of the track.
Charlie Spencer
Road courses and short tracks.
"It's still a profitable event for IMS, but with all those empty seats, it's also a bit of an embarrassment to the grand old track."
Anybody been to either the IMSA or Moto GP events at Indy? I doubt those races put more butts in the seats than the Cup series, but nobody is calling those events 'embarrassments'.
As long as they're making money, I don't see the Cup series leaving (unfortunately).
Anybody been to either the IMSA or Moto GP events at Indy? I doubt those races put more butts in the seats than the Cup series, but nobody is calling those events 'embarrassments'.
As long as they're making money, I don't see the Cup series leaving (unfortunately).
carolinabuff
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Bob Pockrass @bobpockrass 10h10 hours ago
Bob Pockrass Retweeted Bryan Sadler
Indy Star estimated attendance at 50,000. I'd say that was a generous estimate but so hard to know w/infield #nascar