Saturday qualifying

Charlie Spencer said:
Sell-out doesn't mean everyone who bought a ticket showed up.

Also, at a road course, people often move around to see different parts of the track. Those with bleacher tickets may not spend the entire race in their purchased seats.
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Yep. You see it at every road course.
LewTheShoe said:
There are several non-reserved bleachers in the infield general admission areas. Those seats are not sold, they are just there for the use of general admission ticket holders. Most GA ticket holders watch from the hillsides rather than these bleachers.

All of the reserved seats were sold, according to the track. All of the camp sites were sold, according to the TV guys. Maybe they were lying? :idunno:
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Of course they were. A forum member knows all and see's all.
 
It's obvious that the "sell out" is just corporate buys and the people who had free tickets didn't show up. I don't buy the excuse that people move around. They didn't do that 10 or even five years ago.
 
I like qualifying being done on Friday or Saturday, but I understand the reasons why its being done on Sunday.
 
Well they sure played up Suarez's stage win I think they are catering to the west coast crowd now. (adjusts his tin foil hat)
 
StandOnIt said:
They showed R/V's as far as the eye can see many times during the race and announced a sell out reserved seat crowd days before the event. Seat counters be like ain't nobody goin to believe dat.
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Look at the stands now vs 5, 10 years ago. The track president is already setting himself up for next year for a non sell out by saying thousands of people aren't going to show up because of the start time. Get real.
 
He probably won't be track president being that he gets his check from the track owners ISC. cry me a river.
 
jws926 said:
I like qualifying being done on Friday or Saturday, but I understand the reasons why its being done on Sunday.
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Michael Printup, WGI President, on SiriusXM radio says his customers hate Sunday qualifying and the late start time for the race. He is trying to change both.

He said 100,000 attended on Sunday. Reserved seats were sold out. Camp sites were sold out since last fall! But he could conceivably sell up to 20,000 more general admission tickets. The fact is, the race was an awesome commercial success again this year. I guess some peeps have a problem with that for some reason.
 
Ford Racing said:
It's obvious that the "sell out" is just corporate buys and the people who had free tickets didn't show up. I don't buy the excuse that people move around. They didn't do that 10 or even five years ago.
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This must be one of those infield bleachers that people got up and went on walkabout from.

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Skoalbandit33 said:
This must be one of those infield bleachers that people got up and went on walkabout from.

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The Glen's web site says grandstands are reserved-only for Sunday, which would make sense to me since there are very few. That looks like it was sold out and some either didn't show or are out at concessions or what have you. Regardless, it was a pretty massive crowd. I think Printup said they and the Daytona 500 are the only Cup events that sell out anymore (Homestead sometimes does too).
 
FLRacingFan said:
The Glen's web site says grandstands are reserved-only for Sunday, which would make sense to me since there are very few. That looks like it was sold out and some either didn't show or are out at concessions or what have you. Regardless, it was a pretty massive crowd. I think Printup said they and the Daytona 500 are the only Cup events that sell out anymore (Homestead sometimes does too).
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I don't think that the seat counting crowd will be happy with your statements without some sort of confession of less than a full capacity crowd. Personally, I think it's kind of ridiculous to complain about empty seats if you aren't occupying one of them. I mean, I have a tough time complaining about people not showing up when I'm sitting on my own couch watching the race on Sunday's. But, that's just me.
 
FLRacingFan said:
The Glen's web site says grandstands are reserved-only for Sunday, which would make sense to me since there are very few. That looks like it was sold out and some either didn't show or are out at concessions or what have you. Regardless, it was a pretty massive crowd. I think Printup said they and the Daytona 500 are the only Cup events that sell out anymore (Homestead sometimes does too).
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The most important thing is that the seats were paid for whether they were used or not, IMO.
 
LewTheShoe said:
Michael Printup, WGI President, on SiriusXM radio says his customers hate Sunday qualifying and the late start time for the race. He is trying to change both.

He said 100,000 attended on Sunday. Reserved seats were sold out. Camp sites were sold out since last fall! But he could conceivably sell up to 20,000 more general admission tickets. The fact is, the race was an awesome commercial success again this year. I guess some peeps have a problem with that for some reason.
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I think its great that it sold out, you cant please everyone at the same time, that is a spot NASCAR has been in for a long time.
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
I don't think that the seat counting crowd will be happy with your statements without some sort of confession of less than a full capacity crowd. Personally, I think it's kind of ridiculous to complain about empty seats if you aren't occupying one of them. I mean, I have a tough time complaining about people not showing up when I'm sitting on my own couch watching the race on Sunday's. But, that's just me.
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How do you equate noticing grandstands or seats that are unused with counting seats, complaining about them or worrying about them? It doesn't make sense, IMO.
 
Skoalbandit33 said:
The most important thing is that the seats were paid for whether they were used or not, IMO.
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I know from personal experience sold out is not always full capacity. A couple of the Ford 400s I went to were sold out but we still had breathing room around us. A lot of times tickets are stuck on the resale market and aren't snatched up.
 
Pat said:
Agree. It doesn't make good sense to me.

On a personal level, I liked having the track activity on all three days. Qualifying on Saturday is good by me as long as they have practice on Fridays. Something going on is why people show up in campers.
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Exactly what people said to me regarding the Glen said they normally go Thursday and stay all weekend, but weren't going to the track this year that early because nothing was going on Friday
 
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