MIS Announces 28th Straight NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series Sellout

[simracer]

Michigan International Speedway President Brett Shelton announced today that all reserved seats for Sunday’s GFS Marketplace 400 have been sold. The only tickets remaining are for infield General Admission. With the sellout, MIS extends its streak of sold out NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series races to 28 consecutive races dating back to June 1991.



Link: http://dbserver.iscmotorsports.com/MISpeedway/index.cfm

[nascarnation]

Interesting.
They've added seating capacity thru the years
And Cup races in Indy and Chicago.
And it's hellacious to get out of the place afterwards.

Something must be attracting the fans........

[Doctorindy]

Originally posted by nascarnation
Something must be attracting the fans........

Yeah, the last thing to do in the entire state of Michigan before it turns into a frozen tundra again in a few weeks

[THIRD TURN]

I thought the last NASCAR race up there did not sell out?

[Racewriter]

Originally posted by THIRD TURN
I thought the last NASCAR race up there did not sell out?

You thought incorrectly. There was a thread - much like this one - about a month ago.

[Hardscrabble]

Tell me again how CART was more popular than NASCAR in 1995 again.

[Racewriter]

Originally posted by Hardscrabble
Tell me again how CART was more popular than NASCAR in 1995 again.

Only in fantasyland. By '95, NASCAR's ratings were in the 4-5 range for network, while CART's non-Indy ratings were in the high 2-low 4 range. Daytona rated less than Indy, but not by much. NASCAR outdrew CART at every common venue, including BGN at Milwaukee, and the Copper Classic (Southwest Tour) at Phoenix. That trend happened from '90 to '95.

[Z28]

Along those lines. Former MIS president Gene Haskett was on the radio during the Brickyard 400 pre race show and and said that until 1993 the 500 mile CART race at MIS was their biggest event. They did not sell out the Cup races until I believe he said 1990.

In those days there wasn't a great deal of expansion in the seating capacity, I know there were four sections added to the main concrete grandstand while there were still wooden bleachers in the turns or as Haskett caled them "see through" stands because they were mostly empty and you could see through the planks.

It might be something for some reporter to research, what the attendance was for the various tracks that had CART and Cup and how they compared.

[Brickman]

Originally posted by Z28


It might be something for some reporter to research, what the attendance was for the various tracks that had CART and Cup and how they compared.

Once it might have been interesting. But having gone to almost every Cup race at Phoenix and during the same time frame every CART race I would agree that Cup always outdrew CART. It's just the was it was.