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Wow, seems like the crowd keeps getting smaller. The race on Saturday had a small turnout to. There are so many seats there that the camera angles make the place look empty.

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Welllll yeah..... its booooooooringgggg!!!!!

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Boring race but a great winner.. Good job Newman!!! There already making excuses for the chick!!!

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man that was a snoozer:29: however the outcome was great congrats to Newman
ROB

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Yeah the race at Indy is pretty boring. No matter if it's indy cars or sprint cup cars. I will say for once the indy 500 was pretty entertaining this year though. The track just does not produce good racing.

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I went to the cup race last year.....because I got free tickets. I know of better things I could spend my hard earned money on.

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the last few years the Indy Cars have put on a good show!

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Watch any NASCAR race on tv and you'll notice every one has tons of empty seats. Boring follow the leader. The one good thing that may come from the trucks will be people going to their local dirt tracks now.

Bring the trucks and bush back to IRP

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Most indy car races are boring. take the road courses for example pretty much follow the leader.

I agree on taking the truck and Busch race back to raceway park much better racing. I went to the brickyard race for the first 4 years compliments of the wood brothers and the race was always so boring even getting to be In the garage area. I'd certainly never pay to go. I was impressed with the 500 for the first time in many years this year it was actually good racing.

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the race was very boring no passing no excitement and the fans aren't supporting it anymore I felt like it was a waste of my money to go when I could have been at Kokomo but I hadn't been in a while and I decided to try it out again this year. Don't be surprised if Indy is taken off the schedule 10 years from now. It was better than sitting at home but not worth all the money it costs to attend

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I really do not know what people want from a race? Cars that have to lift getting into all 4 corners, that have more horsepower than they can use, driving cars that were not locked down?? Watching them working the corner chasing the car all the way through?? IMO it was great, there was passing every lap in turn 1 and through the short chute! Guess no crashes, no spin outs, means it was a boring race?

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Cover it in dirt then......

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Bristol is like this too, but they pass more then just going into 1. As for Raceway Park, they actually race there, all the way around. When 1000 people show up next year for the Nationwise race, they'll be back at Raceway Park.

The saddest part is Nascrap doesn't need to care about the fans, in a financial way. They just signed a multi billion dollar TV deal, what do they need fans for?

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Unfortunately, Nascar has created a new type of "race fan" who expects to see a 20+ car crash on the last lap. When that doesn't happen, they consider the entire race "boring."

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I'm a NASCAR fan and I don't need to see a big crash or cautions for debris to keep me entertained I just want to see more passing at Indy something that's difficult to make happen with a flat track. I'll admit crashes are a draw for fans but so is good old side by side racing. I think we all have our opinions on what a good race should be but todays wasn't much of a good race.

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I believe the great Jud larson said that years ago :8:

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I don't think the racing at Indy is any worse than the 1.5 mile tracks or even California or Michigan. I think a big part of the problem is over saturation. When the Brickyard first happened there was no Kentucky, Chicagoland, or Kansas. The ticket sales covered a wider area. Now tickets are more sold more locally , and there are less to draw from. I know I am old ,but I never saw a race at Indy until I was 23 years old. We went the second weeekend of time trials, and it was huge just to say you had been to the track. When they added other races and lots of seats, a lot of that novelty was gone, because everyone has been there now.

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Ole Bruton needs to put dirt back on Bristol and have a weeks worth of racing with midgets ,sprint and late models racing which would lead into a Nascar weekend where the trucks, nationwide and cup guys run on it. A Saturday to Saturday event. As for the Brickyard race goes , I only go now if I get free tickets because it is boring. I have been to about half of them now.

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The problem with both NASCAR and Indy Cars can be summed up in two words, Spec. cars.

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...sure, imagine all the other Cup tracks only getting 100,000 fans in attendance...oh wait, they would be thrilled to death! Indy is not Daytona or Talladega, Indy is Pocono (the most boring track which gets about 10,000 fans and has "2" races every year) or Michigan. We will not have the 20 car pile-ups, we will more likely have "spin & wins". NASCAR is it's own traveling circus with little input from IMS, so you get what you get. I will keep my 7 seats in turn 1, I will watch the parade of race cars go by, and I will still be excited to see the winner's burnout and the family and crew kissing the bricks after their historical win at "the" Brickyard! And for the record, there were as many passes at IMS as there was on the "asphalt" at Eldora for the trucks. There needs to be one extra emoticon added to the bottom of this page, one for QuitBitchin'!:deadhorse:
...just my 2 cents worth, bob.

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I have attended all 20 Brickyards and sat in turn 3 for all of them. There are three points in which to look. 1. It seems to me that it use to take 2 or 3 laps for the cars to get sorted out after a yellow. Now the cars seemed sorted out by the time they reach turn 3 and most certainly by the time they are back to the start / finish line. I look at the "Chase" as one one of the reasons. Since the implementing the Chase NASCAR racing has been suffering a little more each year. 2. A new car this year, the Gen 6. As indycars fans have seen the 2nd year of the DW12 has produced some of the best racing the series has seen in years. Availibility of new parts were slow for NASCAR teams causing delays in the development of the new cars for some teams. 3. Speed. The faster they go the harder it is to pass. Restricted cars at high speed tracks makes for more competition. Record passing at indy the past two years and a lower bugeted team finishing 1 - 2 at Talladega this spring all due to restricted horsepower. I wonder if the straights at Indy would make for some drafting and increased passing if the stockcars were slightly restricted. The more you use aerodymamics to achieve speed, the more you need the aerodynamics to stay consistant to maintain that speed. Hence being out front and clean air is so important at high speed tracks.

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Pull off all the track dragging plastic from the darn cars and put more driver and less aero into the equation and you might see a bit better racing!

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It shouldn't be too much longer before they (IMS) sees that this only going to loose money and pulls the plug. They will add lights for a night race but it will only have the interest for a year or two. With the very small crowd I bet they were still standing at the drop of the green flags even though no one was around them. HAHA