Mexico City attendance (merged)

[indycool]

Might as well start the thread-to-be with this one:

http://www.autonet.ca/Motorsports/St...287003-ap.html

[Ken]

would you rather there was no race this weekend...

remember..."RACING".....will you watch, or would you rather bash

[lkchris]

would you rather there was no race this weekend...

remember..."RACING".....will you watch, or would you rather bash

Overreaction. Calling the kettle black. Stupid.

[jdessar]

would you rather there was no race this weekend...

What do you mean?

I have three races to watch this weekend, Nascar Craftsman Trucks, Busch Series and Nextel Cup Series.

And there will be a lot of people at all three of those races.

[numrounofan]

"It may be hurt, though, by the loss of two major national sponsors who gave the race wide promotion in earlier years: Herdez foods and Gigante supermarkets"

businesses hate to be associated with a successful event.......

[Ken]

Overreaction. Calling the kettle black. Stupid.

have you ever heard me complain about more racing...and on the flip side have you ever heard IC even talk about racing

[tbyars]

would you rather there was no race this weekend...

remember..."RACING".....will you watch, or would you rather bash

Time out, Ken.

I don't see IC bashing anything with that post.

It seems pretty straightforward to me.

300,000+ plus expected going into a weekend is a pretty healthy event. I didn't see IC bashing that at all.

[Indyknut]

Yeah, right. This is the TF version of the dark side.

[Ken]

Time out, Ken.

I don't see IC bashing anything with that post.

It seems pretty straightforward to me.

300,000+ plus expected going into a weekend is a pretty healthy event. I didn't see IC bashing that at all.

come on T...you, I and everyone else that posts here knows exactly where this is headed..

past actions speak volumes

[jdessar]

Yeah, right. This is the TF version of the dark side.

What are you?

The Trackforum version of paper?

[indycool]

Well, Ken, if you consider an AP story out of Mexico City quoting the promoter on expected attendance, recapping attendance from the past and relating the number of seats and GA availability a "bash" instead of information, I really don't know what to tell you. There'smore information there answering a bunch of the questions people have had on threads about the place taking down grandstands, etc. If you don't like the information, I guess you don't.

[Indyknut]

Well, Ken, if you consider an AP story out of Mexico City quoting the promoter on expected attendance, recapping attendance from the past and relating the number of seats and GA availability a "bash" instead of information, I really don't know what to tell you. There'smore information there answering a bunch of the questions people have had on threads about the place taking down grandstands, etc. If you don't like the information, I guess you don't.

So you're just putting the ball on the tee, it's up to everyone else to take swings at it?

[Jim Wilke]

Alaman said the track has 85,000 installed seats for this weekend and promoters can sell another 30,000 general admission tickets a day to the infield.

So if they sell every seat and ticket, the most they can claim is 115,000 per day. Note that the Busch race had a claimed race day attendance of 94,229; it will be interesting to see if CC has a bigger crowd.

[downtowndeco]

A positive artical & a well attended event. That they seem to be losing 50,000 spectators a year may be troubling to CC though. I read "over 300,000" as probably "about 301,599" or something like that. But again. a very well supported event.

[indycool]

Indyknut, you and Ken are taking swings at the posting. Tell us what you don't like about the story, or don't believe, or don't want to believe.