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Top rows covered by advertising tarps - like at Martisville. At least they are for the Nationwide Series.
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Witnessed Mario's "Miracle at Indy"...Watched 3 win their 4th Indy 500...Was there for Petty's 200th win...Saw the last Novi qualify -
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Originally posted by hdolan
Great crowd, but not a great race. Busch stunk up the show.Comment
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Yes, there will only be about 200,000 people there tomorrow, and millions more watching on TV.Originally posted by hdolan
NASCAR is obviously in trouble.IRL 2009: "Cars you can't see, driven by drivers you have never heard of, on a network you don't get"
"I'd hire your grandmother, if she brought a budget"- Bankrupt Indy Car team owner Tyler Tadevic, to Curt Cavin in December, on the tough standards he looks for when "hiring" driver talent.Comment
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looked like a real good looking crowd to me. I don't think I could put a number on it tho. I don't recall seeing a shot on TV that really defined the crowd, but the dogleg/main stretch (whatever you want to call it) seemed to have quite a long string of full (or nearly full) grandstands.
tix to today's race were sold separately, I'm guessing?Comment
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Darn, wish the race was tonight so I have some background filler while I do work stuff on the computer, it is better than HGTV my wife continues to annoy me with.No signature requiredComment
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All races at TMS are sold both separately and as part of a season ticket package. The Nationwide Series gets better attendance at Texas than any track except IMS and Daytona if I recall correctly. Also except for the first year, the only races that use the backstretch seats are the Cup races, where they sometimes fill all of them and still have to bring in temporary stands. Eddie is a happy camper.Some people will do nearly anything in order to be able to not do anything.Comment
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Nationwide/Busch series has never raced at IMS. They race the same weekend over at ORP ( formally IRP).Originally posted by Lucky161Comment
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Originally posted by jonesi
You are correct. I got it mixed up with Cup on that point. So that just makes Texas the second behind Daytona, which makes my point even better.Some people will do nearly anything in order to be able to not do anything.Comment
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I think that Gossage guy is really trying to put on a big show.Go Dario, Dixon and Vitor!!! .42 JPM.Comment
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Texas Motor Speedway Fort Worth 1.5 miles 1997 159,585Originally posted by Jimmy HendricksComment
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That's Grandstand seating, it not total capacity. (Sears Point has only 35k in Grandstand seating, but they regularly get over 100k for the Cup races.) I could easily see another 10-20k in campers. Do they have General Admission?Originally posted by Jim WilkeComment
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Wilke never counts the infield spectators.Comment
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There are backstretch stands covered in tarps on Sunday. This makes sense... might as well have too many seats than not enough.Originally posted by hdolan"The problem with internet quotes and statistics is that often times, they're wrongfully believed to be real." - Abraham LincolnComment
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Where you seeing tarps? Stewart just drove by the backstretch and they were seated all the way to the top.Originally posted by LorenzoBandiniComment
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