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Originally Posted by Reddog
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Chicago has had a CART race every year since 1997(?)... they couldn't draw 10,000 fans last year. The IRL had 50-60,000 in Joliet.
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A lot of the reason IRL has so many people at a lot of their races (Chicago included) is because most of the tracks IRL runs at are ISC tracks. The ISC tracks also run NASCAR events. Most of those tracks only sell tickets in a package, so most all the people who buy NASCAR tickets have no choice but to also buy IRL tickets. If the IRL had to stand on its own at those tracks and not rely on NASCAR ticket sales to sell seats, their attendance would be no better than CART's.
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True about the ticket packages. But CARTs attendance is still better as a whole than the IRL's is.
I don't know about other tracks but I can say this for sure. The IRL was
giving away, free of charge, tickets to the race at Nazareth. Word has it they so this at other tracks also to get people in the stands.
And I am not talking a few seats, try a few thousand. As in handing them out on the streets and in the malls. Not just a few on the radio.