Torry (Offline)
#22
7/30/11 12:28 AM
Looking at the Speed Channel repeat.
Pretty sad turn-out. Lots of empty seats.
It's a rough year for spectator sports.
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Honest-Sam (Offline)
#23
7/30/11 12:41 AM
Heck, I was just glad to be there for 15 hours working!
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mortboyz
#27
7/30/11 1:52 AM
The closed off seats in turn 4 on Thursday for USAC has been an effort to keep the place clean for the Cuppers for years. They used to bring in those extra seats for this weekend, but there were never enough Champ car fans to fill em.
We were told by track staff several years ago," these seats are for the rest of the weekend, an we don't wanna have to clean them up until Friday for Saturday"....true stuff.
Ain't been back since.....
See, if NSSN was still around, people would know that ARCA, USAC Champ Cars and Midgets were racing at IRP on Thursday night. $35 for that ticket is NOT a bad deal, IMO . And if you didn't know that IRP allows carry in coolers, why in the hell did you go anyway?
I'll never agree with the whole $10 parking robbery though.....
Mud Packer (Offline)
#30
7/30/11 1:19 PM
Originally Posted by mortboyz:
The closed off seats in turn 4 on Thursday for USAC has been an effort to keep the place clean for the Cuppers for years. They used to bring in those extra seats for this weekend, but there were never enough Champ car fans to fill em.
We were told by track staff several years ago," these seats are for the rest of the weekend, an we don't wanna have to clean them up until Friday for Saturday"....true stuff.
Ain't been back since.....
See, if NSSN was still around, people would know that ARCA, USAC Champ Cars and Midgets were racing at IRP on Thursday night. $35 for that ticket is NOT a bad deal, IMO . And if you didn't know that IRP allows carry in coolers, why in the hell did you go anyway?
I'll never agree with the whole $10 parking robbery though.....
The last couple of years they have allowed spectators to sit in the seats in turns 3 & 4 for the USAC Silver Crown shows. Don't know if they had complaints or what but I sat there the past two years. I realize they don't want to have to clean them up so if that is the reason, the LORP staff should have just told them that.
I don't watch much SPEED TV anymore since it has become mostly NASCAR TV. The "experts" they have on there about turn my stomach. They all just love to hear themselves talk and most can't shut up long enough to catch their breath. Why SPEED would care about showing a "big" crowd is beyond me anyway. Many of their other "filler" shows have huge sections of empty seats.
I am afraid that it won't be an issue any more. With the Nationwide race moving to IMS and the elimination of the truck race, they won't need that many seats so they won't be in place after this year. I personally would like to see ARCA come back but that also might be in doubt.
Mike
Be nice to people on the way up. You might need them on the way down. Jimmy Durante