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Meh.
At times I liked it ... Other times note so much, too long.

Aside from that it was a pretty boring race. Long green flag runs with little passing.

 

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The silence wasn't planned. The announcers were late, stuck in traffic.

 

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Who could have known? You add 40,000 seats to a track fed by a traffic infrastructure already badly overwhelmed and there's a traffic jam? Never would have guessed that. ;D

 

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Clearly, traffic would have moved faster if the cars would have moved in packs of two, joined at the bumper and the grill.

 

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THIS IS NOT SMITH'S FAULT! THIS IS NOT SMITH'S FAULT! GODDAMMIT DID YOU HEAR ME, THIS IS NOT SMITH'S FAULT!

 

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I was going to get a couple of tickets as a birthday present for my wife. But I read the FAQ on the Kentucky Speedway's website and someone asked if they were not going to run out of food for the Sprint Cup race like they did during a Nationwide race previously. That question raised a red flag for me and I backed off. Plus, you weren't allowed to bring your own food and drinks in like you can at many other tracks. Don't think I'll be going to a race there anytime soon.

 

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What did you end up with? http://www.getmein.com/boxing/david-haye-v-klitschko-tickets.html

 

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Why does that race "belong" in Nashville?

Nashville hasn't had a Cup race in going on 30 years. If NASCAR wanted to bring Cup back there, it would've happened by now.

 

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The first race at Loudon in 1993 had a similar traffic nightmare. It's still very, very bad there, but they make the nearest Interstate, I-93, almost a one-way road going north, then south before and after the race, so that helps. Don't know if Kentucky has a similar option.

 

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They are getting really, really desperate to gets asses in the seats at the Brickyard:

http://www.indystar.com/article/20110720/LOCAL/107200378/Desert-Storm-Desert-Shield-vets-invited-attend-Brickyard-free?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|IndyStar.com

It's great that they want to give free seats to vets, but who are we kidding? They don't want massive swaths of empty seats.

It seems like they're coming up with one new gimmick a week. Because I still have control over my late father's tickets (though I don't use them), I got an email saying I was a member of the 94 Club, made up of everyone who had bought seats since the Brickyard started. You could get your name in the program, and take a lap in your own car the Monday after the race.

That's great, but now that the person who has bought the tickets from me won't go anymore starting next year, I'll drop them, too.