WOW !! Empty seats

[old fan]

nope she don't like long haired hippies

[vande077]

I could not believe all the empty seats last night at Knoxville.
It looked like only around 200 people in the stands.
Was I blind or is it like that for just Thursday ???
Knoxville is on my bucket list. I think it looks like a great track.

Guessing you watched the DoD feed....

Most camera angles only show the backstretch grandstand (seats 7600, but is CLOSED for all events except 410 Sprint Nationals).

Front stretch grandstand seats 17,289 (for comparison, Eldora sold 20,000 tickets to inaugural Truck Series Race - the highest attended race at Eldora EVER according to Roger Slack and that puts people from Turn #3 all the way to Turn #2 around the track).

Suites at Knoxville hold 400 at Hall of Fame and Museum, probably another 4-600 on Frontstretch and another 150 or so 2nd Floor of Hall of Fame (so you can have nearly 1200 in attendance with ZERO people in the stands).

I thought the crowds were good all 3 nights (and I think they announced that Saturday was largest crowd ever for the Event).

I think Kendra Jacobs will come up with some things to help grow this event even more now that she has a year under her belt as Marketing Director at the track.