Nascar Bristol Low Attendance
The track only accommodated 30 000 fans when the streak began and expansions began.
Nascar bristol low attendance. 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. The track only accommodated 30 000 fans when the streak began and expansions began. 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. Many stock car fans don t decide to buy tickets until they know.
Nascar looks beyond declining attendance tv ratings. Bristol was once the toughest ticket to get in nascar and boasted 55 consecutive sellouts from 1982 through 2010. The same race in. Attendance a problem all over nascar allen.
The crash fests did generate cool highlight reels and elevate bristol events into must see. The television ratings from talladega one of nascar s most famous tracks were eye opening. Even attendance for the summer race dropped to 94 000 last year. The spring race at bristol in 2018 was hampered by poor weather.
Nascar has been dealing with declining tv ratings and low attendance for a while now and denny hamlin believes he knows the reason for the latter. Nascar hall of famer mark martin recently weighed in on the sport s declining attendance and ratings and offered a very levelheaded analysis. The joe gibbs racing driver finished third in. Winds light and variable.