Sporting News · Jul 24, 2016
Good seats available: Brickyard 400 goes off before disappointing crowd
Was it the heat? Or has NASCAR lost its allure at Indianapolis Motor Speedway?
It was probably a combination, but the result was the same: empty grandstands for Sunday's Brickyard 400.
Empty seats across from Jeff Gordon's pit(Getty Images)
Venerable IMS holds 235,000 around the 2.5-mile course. Crowd estimates suggested far less than 100,000 fans attended. Some observers even wondered it the Sprint Cup race had pulled 50,000.
In contrast, this year's 100th running of the Indianapolis 500 was a sellout. Apples and oranges? Probably. But Sunday's Cup race attendance was a disappointment.