Brickyard NASCAR race - lots of empty seats
- Thread starter hrv
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The place seats 300,000+ so even if there were 100,000 people there it would look empty.
there are still tons of empty seats and the stands in the corners are very empty......
NASCAR needed to give that race up about 8 years ago.
They need to stop going there at Indianapolis…
And cut the overall schedule down to just 28 races…Like it used to be in the late 70s into the mid 1980s.
They also need to accept and eat the humble pie…
Go to much smaller race tracks like Bowman Grey… And other smaller race tracks. Say 8 to 12 on of them throughout that 28 race schedule.
They need to stop going there at Indianapolis…
And cut the overall schedule down to just 28 races…Like it used to be in the late 70s into the mid 1980s.
They also need to accept and eat the humble pie…
Go to much smaller race tracks like Bowman Grey… And other smaller race tracks. Say 8 to 12 on of them throughout that 28 race schedule.
I agree they need to get back to what made them successful IMO. Tracks less than 1 mile should be a decent portion of the schedule. I’d also kick the stages and the new car to the curb. If you want to mimic the local tracks run races like the WoO or Lucas Oil Late Model series.
Just my $0.02
I'm trying to watch, but they just seem to keep crashing.
Stopped caring about NASCAR years ago. Sorry not sorry.
Really? Crashes are the only reason I watch NASCAR! I’m tuning IN!
I loved watching in the 80's-90's. But they have now made it so uninteresting, I just can't watch it.
I’m no longer a fan.
NASCAR colluding with Goodyear and forcing Hoosier out was the beginning of the end for me.
NASCAR colluding with Goodyear and forcing Hoosier out was the beginning of the end for me.
(1) the chase/playoff schedule sucks and is the dumbest thing ever, go back to the same late 90s - mid 2000s rules
(2) what happened to the trucks at eldora, the dirt was cool
(3) bring back ESPN Speedvision and the sweet jingle/song
(4) no one will compare to bob Jenkins
Lastly, and just my opinion, IROC in the late 90s/early 2000s ran small block Chevys in the trans am cars. I get that the new cars, Car of Tomorrow and Gen VI cars meet great safety standards, but can we get to anything that somewhat resembles consumer products? Can we not have race built LSx/LTx motors and advertise with that? Can we not have the Fords running a race 6.8 Trinity/7.3 Godzilla? Bring some of the "stock-car" back to it even at the littlest fashion? Toyota produces just exactly "what" pushrod V8 that is in a production vehicle?
Sometimes tough to watch when the whole premise back in the day was, what won on Sunday sold on Monday.
(2) what happened to the trucks at eldora, the dirt was cool
(3) bring back ESPN Speedvision and the sweet jingle/song
(4) no one will compare to bob Jenkins
Lastly, and just my opinion, IROC in the late 90s/early 2000s ran small block Chevys in the trans am cars. I get that the new cars, Car of Tomorrow and Gen VI cars meet great safety standards, but can we get to anything that somewhat resembles consumer products? Can we not have race built LSx/LTx motors and advertise with that? Can we not have the Fords running a race 6.8 Trinity/7.3 Godzilla? Bring some of the "stock-car" back to it even at the littlest fashion? Toyota produces just exactly "what" pushrod V8 that is in a production vehicle?
Sometimes tough to watch when the whole premise back in the day was, what won on Sunday sold on Monday.
You guys realize the “stages” in every race are there so they can run 10 or 12 more TV commercials in every race broadcast, right?
This time a brazillion!!!! My wife even apologized to me!
Yes… The first number of years they sold out all the regular seats at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Remember though the infield attendance had been eliminated right about the time NASCAR came there.
In the 70s and 80s into the early 90s Indianapolis Motor Speedway had a lot of fans on the infield for the Indy 500. The Snake pit disappeared in the 1990s. Estimated attendance went from 400,000 in the late 70s to near 500,000 in the mid 1980s. Obviously those high numbers were because of the high number of fans allowed in the infield.
I think it has years ago when NASCAR was at its peak....
