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Originally Posted by SuperBowl4
It's ONLY the FIFTH consecutive year that this race has "SOLD OUT" according to their website. Is it SOLD OUT because they removed the backstretch grandstand? They removed 50,000 seats a few years ago as part of their "Dayton Rising" project. It should have been called "Daytona Downsizing". STAGE racing pissed off the majority of the DIE HARD NASCAR fans. The Point system is lame and the CHASE Playoff system is stupid. If it works don't fix it. NASCAR is paying the price for tweaking with a product that worked. Throwing a Checkered/yellow after a STAGE? It's nothing more than a mandatory caution period. Five laps of caution for what? That's 10 laps of needless (non-racing) caution per race. These laps shouldn't even be counted but they are. NASCAR over thought themselves. A GENERAL ADMISSION ticket to this years Daytona 500 costs $200.00!!
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I thought that when they did their renovations they increased the size of all seats, so you're going to lose some seats right there. And wasn't the general disrepair the backstretch seats part of the issue? Something about how they were the worst seats in the house?
And what about five straight years of completely packed seats is bad? Never mind that thousands of people show up to watch outside of the general admissions. Last time I paid any attention to the actual numbers I remember they said that over 170,000 fans were at the race, but the stands only held 146,000 people.