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Originally Posted by R.Lee

As or that track in Indiana. that is the absolute worst track on the schedule! It is totally unsuitable for stock car racing! The sight lines are the WORST of any track that these cars run on. Sight lines on a road-course are better than at that track! Simple fact, the owners/management of that place have always hated NASCAR and have not ever wanted NASCAR there! in 1955 (I believe it was the year) Bill France Sr. was thrown off of the grounds, for simply asking if a NASCAR race could be run there! He vowed, as he left the track, "One day I will OWN this damned place" In the early/mid 90s, when Tony George had his much publicized war with his competitors and they split their series in have, he wanted to start his own series. He did not have the funds to do that, without breaking the bank, with regards to his family's fortune. Though he had the same feelings that the rest of his family had, with regards to NASCAR, he had no choice. He knew that a NASCAR race would bring a flood of money into his coffers and that he could finance his series with it. Thus NASCAR came to that track to race in 1995 (that is the year, if I remember correctly) The funny this is, he wanted all the money that he could drain out of a NASCAR race, but he placed an artificial cap on attendance for the NASCAR race. There were NO infield tickets sold. It was not allowed! Had infield tickets been sold, there would have been that much more profit for him, but the fact, that he and they could not face, was that the crowd that they would have drawn would have been the largest in the history of that track! They could NOT stand for that! Regardless, I was all for that first race, it was vindication for "Big Bill" France! But after a couple of years, they should have just told the management of that place, "thank you for hosting the NASCAR race here. We will not be returning next year. The track was not designed for stock car racing and though crowds have been good, we feel that we can better serve our fans, by racing on a track more suitable to stock cars. Again, thank you for the races that we were able to run here." This race is a DUD! It is the worst race on the schedule.

Wow, there is no way anyone can be that delusional. France HAD zero chance of owning Indy or even NASCAR coming close to packing Indy as the 500 does. Not even within 10% of what Indy brings in to the place. And I have seen at least 10 times people in racing refute that claim from France about being thrown out. They just didn't need the races when they had the most attended race in the US every year, estimated record is over 300k. Indy does not release actual numbers only sell out which can mean anything but 2016 was estimated by most to have cleared the 300k mark. The best NASCAR has done was under 200k and that was their HIGHEST attended event ever.

And sorry but worst race on the schedule??? Do you watch or just ***** cause it's better than more than half the events. How about NASCAR go back to actual aero guys to fix the cars and stop pretending they know better and tell the fans to shove off and fix the cars. If the fans leave, so be it but it's not like the 'classic' fans ever bought anything, NASCAR's boom was ALL driven by sponsors and corporate tickets, NOT paying customers.