Bristol Nascar Race Low Attendance
Monday at 11 on yarbrough a former motorsports coordinator for pontiac joins me to discuss the decline and future of nascar.
Bristol nascar race low attendance. Empty seats and lackluster television ratings have become the new. The same race in. The swaths of empty seats nascar and its tracks do not release attendance figures made for unpleasant optics sunday during the cup race arguably the best race of the season so far. Attendance is not just a bms problem.
Even attendance for the summer race dropped to 94 000 last year. The race delivered a 2 85 national rating on fox with 4 7 million viewers. Within 10 years bristol s spring race has seen a nearly 75 decrease in attendance and though the track s night race in august generally draws a larger crowd there will still be plenty of. Officials at bristol motor speeway are urging the community to come out to the august night race following an associated press article highlighting the low attendance issue at nascar races.
It is hardly a secret that attendance has dropped off at nascar tracks and nowhere was that more evident than recently at bristol motor speedway. The television ratings from talladega one of nascar s most famous tracks were eye opening. However attendance is not just a bms problem last week s cup race at texas motor speedway also featured a crowd in the 40 000 range empty seats and lackluster television ratings have become the new normal in the sport over the past couple years nascar remains on a gradual decline into niche status bristol herald courier 4 8. Stunned to see how empty bristol motor speedway was for the race.
Many stock car fans don t decide to buy tickets until they know. The spring race at bristol in 2018 was hampered by poor weather.