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Posted By: thomasmnile on 08/20/17 01:10pm

Cloud Dancer wrote:

And, did you notice how fast Brian France learned how to fill the grandstands... [emoticon]

Obvious tongue in cheek. There were PLENTY of seats available. Some recovery from when Bruton first killed attendance with his track reconfiguration, but nowhere near the perennial sellout it once was.

Posted By: Cloud Dancer on 08/20/17 01:38pm

OK, that one was TIC, but not this one:
Compare last night's huge crowd at Bristol in the context of today's current state of affairs in auto racing. For example, today's crowd at today's IndyCar race at Pocono.

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Posted By: thomasmnile on 08/20/17 04:22pm

Agreed. Caught closing laps at Pocono, stands were a ghost town. IndyCar is ' deader' than NASCAR, they haven't gotten the memo yet.

Posted By: bobsallyh on 08/21/17 10:54am

Granted the crowd was poor at Pocono, but the race was excellent. A lot of the problem at Pocono for Indy Car is lack of promotion. I'll bet most of Penciltuckey never even knew it was being held. As far as the crowd at Bristol, it looked real good depending how the camera angles were. After dark with the lighting shining down, there was plenty of shiny aluminum butt pads showing thru. Went on the Bristol ticket site Saturday AM, it was "where do you want to sit and how many tickets do you want"?

Posted By: Cloud Dancer on 08/21/17 11:39am

What I saw was that the grandstands were approximately 75% full ALL the way around, to say nothing of the thousands on the ground. IMO by today's standard this was a huge crowd. But, apparently it doesn't matter. What's important is the least amount of paying customers that it takes to stay in business. My experience tells me that it's smaller than you think.
I love natural phenoms, and the totality of it, like the eclipse AND the clean sweeps by Kyle Busch.... [emoticon]

Posted By: thomasmnile on 08/23/17 09:53am

Better Ratings News.

Kinda demonstrates perhaps NASCAR is shooting themselves in the foot allowing the networks to air races on their second tier channels.

Posted By: Cloud Dancer on 08/23/17 10:41am

Listen up NASCAR! Everyone knows that more people watch every time Kyle Busch delivers a clean sweep! So, just let him win more races, simple.
Actually, I could save money if I could be satisfied with just over-the-air TV..... [emoticon]

Posted By: thomasmnile on 08/23/17 01:19pm

Cloud Dancer wrote:

Listen up NASCAR! Everyone knows that more people watch every time Kyle Busch delivers a clean sweep! So, just let him win more races, simple.

Now THAT is some tongue in cheek there! [emoticon]

But I bite the bullet and pay for cable. Just can't deal with pixeled picture and flat out loss of signal with OTA when it rains [emoticon]

Posted By: Wrace on 09/01/17 12:58pm

Really enjoyed the Xfinity race at road america last weekend. No cup regulars and a really good track in Road America. Rewards horsepower, but includes some tricky bits as well.

I also watched the Xfinity race at mid-ohio a few weeks ago, and I think Road America is much more suited to a quality TV broadcast. It has elevation changes and good camera positions that really convey the speed. I think if fox or nbc were to bring their cup quality TV coverage to this track it would make for a great cup race.

The race was won by an underdog Jeremy Clements, 32 years old with 256 series starts. No big time sponsors, and a 9 year old car built in his families shop. Started out as a dirt racer in 2003. Apparently had a bad wreck that just about destroyed one hand. Requiring 10 surgeries, including sewing his hand to his hip for a graft.

Looking forward to Darlington this weekend.

Posted By: JIMNLIN on 09/01/17 06:32pm

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Really enjoyed the Xfinity race at road america last weekend. No cup regulars and a really good track in Road America.

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Very enjoyable race without the usual flash bang cup crowd.
Maybe Nascar could give up one of the clone car get in line race tracks and go with the RA track. Even the wife would watch it.

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