NASCAR is still selling out races. It may be at a slightly reduced rate, but certainly not much. My cheap-seat at Texas Motor Speedway for the spring race cost me $112.00, and I assure you that was a cheap seat.
Damn. I thought NASCAR was blue collar. I guess they are as elite as everything else. No wonder politicians were kissing their butts. Sorry but 112 dollars for a ticket in the bleed section is insane. Oh and it does not surprise me that they are losing money (even a little) with those prices.
They cut prices for this season by around $20 but that isn’t a lot when you can’t look at a seat for under $80. Actually I found that I like sitting in the bleachers on pit row for around $45. You can only see the front stretch but being able to watch pit stops from 40 feet away was a nice change.
Also, I think you will find that the average NASCAR fan spends more on NASCAR memorabilia and products than all other sports combined. I may be wrong about this fact, but a few years ago I read than the average fan on race-day spends $75.00 or more on memorabilia, t-shits, hats, etc.. The blue-collar guys spend the big bucks on NASCAR.