According to the eyeballs and some quick glimpses of the stands at Bristol Motor Speedway this last weekend, despite every trick in the book to keep the cameras off the stands during the race, it would have seemed that the stands "looked" about half full this last Sunday for the Food City 500.
Considering that a seat at Bristol was one of the most sought after seats in all of NASCAR, it's hard to say one way or the other what's up.
But one thing is for sure... if radio reports and what not are true, every since Bristol Motor Speedway went to the progressive banking, the seats have been over so slowly clearing out.
According to track owner Bruton Smith, whose cup is always half-full, he indicated that rain chased a few attendees away last Sunday and that they sold 102,000 tickets for the 160,000 seat-capacity track. But visually, folks were saying it seemed less than that.
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IF you float around online, you'll see so many comments about how the race is just going around in circles and that folks just aren't that happy any more. But then there are some that don't mind that the race doesn't take forever to complete, like it used to when it was flat.
But you have to admit, when you have a spare fifty-thousand plus seats sitting around for this track that is on many a bucket list, something is afoul.
And Smith has been reported to be considering dropping a cool million on the track to change things up. But then, despite getting ready to offer up a cool mil, he also suggest that rain probably kept many fans away.
And you have to admit, rain is a deterrent, if for anything else, the lack of a refund policy if your race gets rained out. It's kept me at bay sometimes, that's for sure.
So we'll be hearing soon what's going to happen to the track. But keep something in mind, for the new fan that is... if they do flatten the track, it will be a totally different beast and the races will usually take a lot longer due to the myriad of cautions that take place as fenders and 'tudes collide!
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