How are ticket sales for the 500 compared to last year?

[Truth Detector]

Personally, I don't care much for the 400, but that fact is due more to the decline of the 400 than the rise of the 500.

The sections sold out for the 500 are not unusual at all, as those sections are sold out pretty much every year.

It wasn't that long ago that I was reading about how the BY400 was bigger than the Indy 500. Right here on this very forum.

[Ren Butler]

Sadly -- it was, for a time.

[Truth Detector]

Sadly -- it was, for a time.

In TV ratings only.

Never by attendance.

That said...I don't feel like arguing about it.

[slompappy]

Yeah no it wasnt

[Ren Butler]

I'll rephrase it similar to what TD was talking about.

By some measures, the 400 was bigger than the 500.

[BrakeEarly]

You're trying to compare a 200,000+ seat venue with much smaller venues.

BTW, there wasn't a bad seat at MSA, IMO. I sat at the top many times and never felt like I wasted my money.



We were talking only about the quality of the seats, friend, so that's all I was addressing. I have no interest in participating in your line of discussion for the millionth time.

I'm comparing the 200k tickets sold to the Indy 500 to the half million colts tickets and half million or so pacers tickets sold each year. Attendance is as much about being at the event as it is about the view. People didn't stop sitting in lesser seats because they learned they could get a better view at other tracks... Attendance didnt go up elsewhere as a substitute They stopped filling thrm because demand disappeared and better seats came available elsewhere so they moved... Upgrading seats wasn't as easy as asking for them before.

[indyracefan]

This will be my 35th Indy 500, 30th consecutively. I've never bought my tickets through IMS. I never bought them 'illegally' either.

I did attend the BY400 from 1994 thru 2010, I did get those tickets through IMS. That is until 2011, that's when I surrendered my tickets as the race no longer appealed to me.