07-21-2010, 11:32 AM
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Join Date: Aug 1999
Location: Ellington,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Classic Roadster 351W, T5, Red & White
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" Action on track isn't helping NASCAR attendance, ratings "
USA Today published a mid-year review, after 19 races. Changes introduced in 2009 and 2010 have not stopped the decline in attendance:
" Rubbing is racing. Popularized by the movie Days of Thunderdramatizing stock-car racing at its most cartoonish, the axiom might be the easiest way to explain NASCAR's rise from regional phenomenon to national platform.
"The bare essence of the sport is, 'He crashed me, so I crashed him back,' " TexasMotor Speedway president Eddie Gossage says. "That's the appeal."
But after a first half of the 2010 Sprint Cup season filled with slam-bang feuding — primarily the row between Carl Edwards andBrad Keselowski but also boiling between Kevin Harvick andJoey Logano— and unpredictable finishes, it hasn't caused a spike in the rooting interests of NASCAR. "
Attendance: ( after 19 races )
2003: 4,494,000
2010: 3,594,708
Reduction of 899,292 or 25% " Attendance is about the only thing not getting a bump; more tweaks possible "
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/motor...dance-tv_N.htm
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