Running 2019 Nascar thread

Hall of Famer Glen Wood dies at 93. He and his brother perfected the modern pit stop.

NASCAR Hall of Famer Glen Wood dies at 93

 

I was checking out Jayski (RIP) one last time and they had one story listing the seating capacities at ISC tracks in 2019.

International Speedway Corporation continues to reduce track seating

Wasn’t Michigan at like 100,000 at one point, and Kansas around ~80,000? Ouch.

 

I see where Cessna is sponsoring Jamie McMurray; I remember a marketing professor I had once saying airlines would never touch nascar cause they didn’t want to be associated with crashes.

 

Honest question, is it a loss of popularity or the costs outstripping the ability/desire to attend or sponsor a team?

 

What has happened to ticket prices. Has track management gotten rid of the mobs in the cheap seats to concentrate on the affluent?

 

Interesting - I didn't realize Pennzoil and Quaker State are now all subsidiaries of Shell. Explains a bit about sponsorship dollars.

 

NASCAR is privately held but International Speedway Corporation, which owns 13 tracks, is publicly held (the France family owns a majority share and is trying to buy the rest of the stock). The financial reports of International Speedway indicate that revenues and profits are increasing by about one-two percent a year. So far NASCAR has weathered the drop off in attendance pretty well.

What happens when the television contracts expire in 2024 is anyone's guess. Ratings are cratering.

 

Ricky Craven and Jamie McMurray will work for Fox. Wondering where they’ll be deployed.

https://www.nascar.com/news-media/2019/01/29/fox-sports-adds-ricky-craven-to-weekend-nascar-coverage/

 

I miss when race cars looked like this.