The crowd at Dover was an estimated 25,000 short of a sellout. The speedway seats about 140,000. Nine fan-less sections each in Turns 2 and 3 were covered with advertising banners.
Rising gas prices and food prices are seen as the reasons for the smallest crowd in years.
- Pocono race falls 15K short of sellout
- Richmond Raceway Sells out Again for Nextel Cup
- Turkish Grand Prix to be a Sellout
- Sprint Cup race at Darlington Sold Out
- Las Vegas announces another Sprint Cup sellout
That stinks, but with the cost of gas & hotels of course
it wont be a sellout.
The race was so boring, fans that didn’t attend
didn’t miss anything.
It is so hard to find a hotel in the area there is no way I was driving down to Delaware and back on the same day. The races are not that exciting at the track. They need to knock the place down and build a super speedway.
Vinny wrote:
Hey the first 18 or so laps were plenty exciting! After that I was glad to go tend to the BBQ smoker and do other random things, but that first 15 mins was great!
i guess the the dover mafia only controls the trash business in delaware and not the paint business. if they did, maybe they would paint the seats red, yellow, blue, green and white like other speedways to fool your eyes and the camera to make it look like the joint is sold out.
They should take one of the races out of there and put it somewhere else like NYC , Ok I can dream can’t I
well ole Bruton is gonna buy Dover and drop one of the races and bring it to my neck of the woods for 2010 at Kentucky…since Pocono wont sell…thats his only choice….and Kentucky would sell out…atleast the first year most def anyways…idk about later tho
Vinny wrote:
Oh yeah because Tona, Dega and Cali are real exciting races……. (rolls eyes)
They just need to make Cup races shorter. Look at the truck series with their 250 mile races, there is no time to just ride around, you have to race.
As far as why it wasn’t sold out, my question is this, was it sold out as in actual tickets sold, or does that track not sell any tickets before race day?
Personally I think it was actually pretty close to a sell out, its just that people didn’t show up, and the threat of weather on Sunday could have been part of the reasoning behind that.
i like that track. but now a days it cost too much $$$. gas, motel,food and the price of the tickets. i’ll watch it on tv and then go fishing.
darrell wrote:
I agree I live in louisville an hour from Ky speedway an the nationwide race sells out every year a cup race would do the same,that crap nascar said about it not being a good market is a load of crap there just mad because nascar/isc wanted to buy it but they wouldnt sell it.
I disagree with making the races shorter,im not gonna spend hundreds of dollars an drive hundreds of miles to take my family to a 2 hour race.
I think the races are too short already lol. They actually had a tarp covering huge scetions of the seats because they couldnt sell out to make it appear fuller.
Lee88-20 wrote:
Then go to one closer to where you live and you won’t have that problem.
Also since you and Vinny both do not want shorter races I’ll suggest this, how about we make both Pocono races from 500 to 1,000.
How about we make pocono one race and make it 1000 and give a race back to kentucky lol. It would make everyone happy
No it wouldn’t, the only people that would make happy are the new idiotic bandwagon fans who do not appreciate the history of the sport.