The Highest Attended Races At EVERY NASCAR Track
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- Опубликовано: 22 сен 2022
- When you go to a NASCAR race one of the many things you will notice is the size and scale of the grandstands that grace the skies of the tracks. While NASCAR may be far from its peak period it still is one of the highest attended sports in America, so you can only imagine how good the stands looked when these tracks did peak. So that is what we are going to look into today, the highest attended races at every NASCAR track.
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Note: All of these before 2014 are from NASCAR’s official reports. There may be other estimates out there but these are the most official.
Can you please do the opposite of this video. Thanks 🙏
Ya please
I don’t think we have to worry about post 2014 attendance lol
Get woke, go broke.
Watkins Glen in 97 was pretty packed
Fun fact: the highest attendance at Dover was 18% of Delaware's population at the time
Holy shoot
Holy shit
Holy shite
I mean Delaware is small
Dover is in Dover Vergina I thought? Not in Dover Delaware. Still impressive. That would also be about 20% of South Dakotas Population as well, South Dakota is the smallest population in USA of a state, with only Delaware right ahead by 20,000 more people.
The 1999 All-Star race was likely the largest crowd for a race that I ever attended. By then the backstretch terrace had been completed at CMS and the turn 3 and 4 terrace was also there. As a 9 year old, I was blown away by that many people, and all the flashbulbs going off looked like a crowd of a million fireflies had taken over the stands. Terry Labonte won the race in a slick looking car.
hey slap is here!!!
That was probably Charlotte's peak capacity too since they also had a ton of lower level seats out of turn two on the right side of the backstretch
I dont think the Ford grandstand expansion with the high rise seats opened until 2000 ( i may be wrong). I moved to concord in 99 and have lived here for 24 years. I am pretty sure I remember the Ford expansion going on in 99 and 2000. I drive by a couple times per day but I cannot sweat my memory is correct. That section added about 30K seats I think so the later races probably were higher numbers than 99. (I attended races at CMS from 75-2010)
Small correction: The '94 Brickyard is not the race with the most entries. That honor actually goes to Ontario 1972, which had a mind-boggling 113 cars attempt the race.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing
Ah thinks for looking that up I thought wait a minute ice,I'm sure there was another track that had most entries ever.. can't think of what track it was.
That was the first year they raced at Ontario California too.
I only ever remember seeing as a kid one race at that track in 1993 on TV, the last year before the track was closed due to Taxes becoming way to high, so high they would have needed to make 1 billon each year to stay afloat and pay everyone. At least this was the info I found in 2020.
@@caseysmith544 Ontario's first race was in '71, this was the second one. And I think you're getting it mixed up with Texas World tv-wise. Ontario was long gone by '93, but Texas World ran an ARCA/Winston West combo that year.
Umm his video was on current tracks on the schedule or starting in 2023 Ontario is not a track on the current schedule
I miss those 2000s races with the stands completely packed.
The sheer amount of fans attending races from the late 90's-2000's is pretty astronomical when you think about it. It makes me believe that gutting those insane numbers was what prompted NASCAR to abandon its roots all those years ago, and that high is what they're still desperately trying to regain. I don't know if it was ever sustainable unfortunately. I think it also shows how much the 2008 Recession hurt NASCAR's fanbase hard. People had a lot more expendable income to go and travel to races, and now just going to one locally is a challenge financially. This is a very inciteful video
Also, now the price of tickets for most events after the Recession to almost everything is $$$$$.
Yea it was but I really believe Nascar has killed itself from prices to rules they’ve become more like government and to ignorant to understand it even there tv markets has gone down but u actually get to see more on tv now with the quality especially from 90’s to know not the same as being there but better views for sure technology is good and bad
Nascar began to abandon their loyal fan base . They wanted to bring a more diverse crowd and shut out their loyal fans .It was after that I believe that nascar hates its fan base
@@robertnussberger6449 NASCAR just wants to forget that the original base was in the Deep South with all racing and Northeast with Modified and Sportsman series that went on until 1979 with original sportsman series before Bush now Xfinity and 1980 with original Modified rules of anything goes as long as body was from a stock body and engine was a production engine at one point. The Top in NASCAR also now want to forget that racism was a thing in NASCAR in into the 1970's when some tracks did not allow still in mid 1970's women or other non white races with some tracks even including those who are European non white like some Southern Italian and Catalonian decent from going into the garage. They Fear NASCAR getting Cancel Cultured by the idiots who focus on the wrong things like wrong racist __ in a market or go at racism wrong like with Aunt Jamima when current Mrs Buttersworth was actually bad and even looks like an after Civil War up to the Great War/WWI depiction of a former slave now maid of the era how they were drawn not in photos but drawn racist like by people of the south in magazines and newspaper comics.
@@patrickhollis5332 In some ways NASCAR needs to go back to its roots, more short tracks, ditch the playoffs, and more focus on the racing than the entertainment, and on others they need to innovate, more road and street courses, a more affordable format, etc.
NASCAR needs to remember what it is, and grow based on that.
I was at the first Brickyard 400, seated right on the start-finish line, on the inside right next to Victory Lane. We got to cheer Jeff Gordon and boo Tony George from fifteen feet away.
We were probably sitting right next to each other!
@@indyxpbullion2422 Possibly. We were in row 5, north side of Victory Lane, right next to the railing. The start/finish line split our 4 seats.
I really miss those days as a kid going with my Dad and uncle. My great aunt and uncle lived 2 blocks from the track so we'd stay there for the weekend, help park cars, go to qualifying, shop at the stalls outside the track and the merch trailers in the infield, and then go to the race. My dad was a Gordon fan, uncle was an Earnhardt fan, and I was a Mark Martin fan.
My mom and her sisters were there too, but nowhere near you: they had always had the same seats for the 400, about three rows up in turn 1 in section E, from the first one all the way up until 2020.
Boy I enjoyed that Rate Lace duel at Gateway @ 3:33.
😂😂😂 man I was gonna say this!!! I do this mistake pretty often myself so it made me laugh pretty hard
i was wondering if i was the only one who caught that
I was at that Inaugural Brickyard 400. I was just about to start kindergarten at the time, so unfortunately I only have the foggiest of memories of the race. Only ones that really stand out were when the Bodine brothers wrecked each other and when Ernie Irvan's tire went down at the end of the race. Only race that I've attended that topped that would have been the 100th running of the Indy 500. I recall them saying over the PA that the overall attendance was something like 400K-450K and was the equivalent of the whole city of Omaha, NE being attendance.
I will say I attended my first Daytona 500 this year, and I know it doesn’t sell out every year. But, when you normally attend the New Hampshire cup race every year it took my breathe away. Already got my tickets for next year can’t wait.
My first Daytona 500 was last season and just to be there was unreal! I’ve been attending New Hampshire since my first cup race in 2018.
@@KR_Diecasts yeah New Hampshire is fun because it’s home. But it looks like peewee football. I’ve been going since Greg biffle won in 2008. But 2018 was awesome Kevin Harvick won in that late run on Kyle Busch great race. See why you’ve kept going since then. Maybe see you there sometime.
One of the things I miss the most is the flashbulbs going off at night races in the 90s-2000s
Hopefully, just Hopefully, if NASCAR gets rid of the playoffs, add more HP in the Next-gens, and turn towards pure racing fans, and not focus on entertainment, we'll see a huge popularity growth again
I can hear the pain and astonishment in icebergs voice when he got to Texas. I love it.
Hey man! I am a new nascar fan as of this year. I’m from Saint Louis and I went to “gateways” cup race and have been hooked ever since. My RUclips feed is filled with nascar RUclipsrs and I wanted to let you know that I LOVE your videos. You do a awesome job of including current and past footage of the races and always have interesting and historical facts about the sport! This is extremely helpful for a new fan, KEEP IT UP!!!!
This is so cool. I always thought new Midwestern fans were a myth
I'm from STL too. We went to Gateway this year and Kansas. You should give Kansas city a try. It's really good
Damn, you missed out on the really good years of the mid 90s - early 2000s.
Welcome to NASCAR, hope you love it like we all do 👏
I attended two of the races on this list:
Watkins Glen 2013 & Pocono 2007
I will always stick up for Pocono being on the Cup schedule because it not only provides drivers with a great challenge, but it always has an amazing fan atmosphere as evidenced by the race this year. The Next Gen had the best racing there I've seen in a long time.
I'm not surprised that most of the records are from the Mid 2000s. It makes sense, considering that NASCAR's peak in terms of TV viewership was in 2005.
I’ve been to a Texas race every season since 2004. The most attended race I’ve been to though was the 2019 Indy 500. There was something magical about being around that many fans.
That Nashville race was a blast. Traffic was a minor issue but what I still remember is how hot it was.
100 entries at Indy is crazy! Late 90s always had 50 cars showing up to every race.
The only NASCAR race I ever attended was the first race at Indy. I had been watching NASCAR on TV from it's first broadcast in 1979. At Indy, we were sitting at the exit of turn 4 & Mark Martin was the first qualifier. When he came by us at speed I was blown away that a race car could stick to the track like that going that fast. TV had not done it justice!
I love the old Bristol stands with the camera flashes, the wave, the roar of the crowd. Just nothing like it used to be.
I was at the first Brickyard 400. The atmosphere was like no other race I'd ever been to. The place was packed, we got to the track at about 6:30 that morning and still had to park about a mile away.
How times have changed.
This was the first Nascar race I ever attended. I was 8. We lived about 20 miles away but my great aunt and uncle lived 2 blocks away outside of turn 4. Me, my dad and uncle would stay the weekend and help park cars in the yard and go to qualifying and the race. Seeing all the houses with banners of their favorite drivers and all the RV's in people's yards and tailgating was really cool. You could hear the cars practicing and I'll never forget walking through the gates that first time.
The 2013 Coca Cola 600 was pretty packed. Never seen that many people in my life
3:32 those rate lace duels are always the craziest.
lmfao
Thanks for making this video. I’m from the UK and at the age of 18 I visited America with a friend to watch the first 12 races of the 2004 season. Little did I know at the time that we were part of the biggest crowds ever at Vegas, Charlotte, Texas, Martinsville, Atlanta and Richmond - half of the 12 races we went to!
Sitting in a big crowd like Michigan is sooo crazy, especially when Dale Jr. Wins for the first time in literally forever
loved this!!! I personally didn't get into NASCAR until after the height of the boom period in the early 00's so it's no surprise seeing 03, 04 and such races setting records. It does give me research to go and watch or re-watch races. Loved that the 94 Indy race set the record!!
Thank you! “Yellow Stripes here”. Still learning all of the nerdy trivia and history of this awesome sport! Keep up the videos mate!
Boogity Boogity Boogity!
A shame that Road America topped out at 120,000 just last year. If it wasn’t removed from the schedule would it have improved in attendance? We’ll never know.
Was at every Texas Cup race from 2003 to 2015. So much fun. I’ve been to OU football games, countless Dallas Cowboys games but to this day the atmosphere at Texas motor speedway from 2003-2008ish was immeasurable. The second I entered the stadium bleachers and saw the green grass and cars lined up on pit road I got chills. I vividly remember this.. There’s nothing like it. I’ve been to Dega, Richmond, Martinsville, & Kansas and there hasn’t been anything come close. TMS was doing it right. The track was aging and they started running the wall and the racing just got better and better, the era with the GEN4 cars that sounded and looked amazing with ALL the top SPONSORS and sick paint schemes and all the SUPERSTARS were still here and at their peak. There was a stretch there where it was sold out every single time, just jam packed.
The biggest crowd attendance that I remember was back in 2002 out at CMS for the BANK OF AMERICA 500 and that race was a FULL HOUSE and had standing room only if I am right about that one. Me, my uncle and a friend of ours were sitting at the turn #2 exit and the racing that night was bad to the bone all night long and I think that particular race had a dozen or so cautions. Awesome video, Iceberg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love this video The Iceberg and these are great highest attended Nascar races
dude this is the best vid youve done in a long time
Them 2004-2006 numbers are gone 😂
Another great video! Keep up the good work!
I love my rate lace duels! Lol @ 3:32 love the videos man!
I was at the 100th Indy 500. They estimated 500k. I went to NASCAR at Michigan every year from 1993-2019. They had some huge crowds in the early 2000s. I think your number is off for Gateway this year. 80k was the estimate for the whole weekend. The capacity is 55k. I was at that one too.
I was going to dover year after year as a kid in the 90s to early 2000s. I got to see it as blacktop to concrete and watched the grandstands grow. I found pictures from year after year and saw it grow
At Atlanta they took out the weaver stands on the old front stretch /back stretch and replaced it with luxury bus spots and took out Elliott stands in turn 3 where alot of discounted tickets were. The crowds have steadily declined over the years and with the new configuration, aka mini Daytona , the crowds may stay declined. Seems like they are focusing on the new F1 type crowd who "need" more things to do than watch the race. Miss all the many more merch/team trailers they used to have in front of track , they took alot of those out to.
I was at that New Hampshire race, never seen so many people in my life at one event.
I was excited to watch this video until he said no Chicagoland speedway will not be on this list just crushed my heart 💔 😢 😔
Sorry, trust me it hurts for me as well
Loved the video I’ve honestly never thought about this
- I've been going to Pocono since 1988, the PA state police estimated crowds in the 175k range in the early 2000s
- Went to Dover from 1990-2010, 150k sounds about right! Granted, that track had a brief peak. Once of the first track to display noticeable empty seats...
- Went to August Michigan in 2003-2004...160k sounds about right! Massive amounts of seats at MIS! Traffic was insane!
- Went to Martinsville in October 2003, had to be close to 100k. Camped out for the weekend, watched the Marlins-Yankees WS game at one of the camper's crazy outdoor setup! Great times!
- Went to the 2002 Pepsi 400 at Daytona, massive crowd! Had to be over 150k....
Thank you for showing Kenseth in first in those first few clips
3:33 Rick Allen moment lmao
i love rate lace duels at gateway
Unfortunately, the overall lacing wasn’t good that day. There was no passing. The rate lace caution made it look interesting.
OMG
I was looking at the Southern 500 at Darlington like
"🤔They say it sold out but it looks weird on TV"
SEATING CAPACITY has been reduced
THAT'S WHAT DENNY HAMLIN was talking about on Dale's podcast!!!
Wow
Looking at the older broadcast NOW I CAN SEE why Darlington looked so strange compared to when I went in 2005.
Got it
When auto club sold out in 2016 105,000 people there. It was wild. When that many people are there the reactions are wild when a car wrecks or a driver gets booed. Special race as it was Johnson’s last win at his home track. The crowd was so loud I couldn’t hear his engine during the burnout. I have so many fond memories of this facility. It’s so sad it’s getting torn down.
I always wonder, do you think there will ever be a 300,000 capacity track?
You’ll definitely wanna see the end of the video 😉
Obviously didn’t watch till the end 🤣
@@Luke24160 Yeah my bad lol
I went to the Indy 500 this year. There was an estimated 325,000 people that showed up on race day. The atmosphere was insane that day.
@@48waffles36 it happens to the best of us
As a wise man once said “Nascar would kill to have NorthWilkesboro 50,000 back these days”
And they wouldn’t. That was the worst racing short track back then. What it was then is what Richmond is now, and fans hate Richmond
The only thing North Wtilkesboro is holding on too was heritage 😅
Was at the first Gateway cup race and where we sat, a hospitality tent blocked our view of the backstretch. They definitely need to change that for upcoming events
Wow 100 entries for the Brickyard 1994, qualifying must have taken all day lol. If only we could have like 50+ in Cup a week these days.
This is my favorite nascar channel
if you think Nascar crowds are big, go to the Indy 500. Actually, if you sit in the North end grandstands, and look out across the track, you get a really good look at just how many people are packed not only into the grandstands, but into the infield as well. On a typical Indy 500 race day, you can fit in excess of 500,000 people in that venue, between 257,327 permanent grandstand seats, the spectator mounds, as well as the infield tailgating and snakepit area. It's ridiculous how many people you can fit into IMS on Indy 500 race day. And by the way, none of this takes into account the large tailgating/camping area just outside the track, either. That's probably another several tens of thousands of people there as well.
I've been to the Indy 500 many times in my life, first in 2006 (the first time I ever attended a race of any kind), then again in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016 (the 100th Running), 2017, and 2018. I was also at the Brickyard 400 in 2007, the last truly good Nascar race at Indy.
My first Talladega race was that 2003 spring race. That was the era of that unique sound of restrictor plate engines.
3:29 - I laughed at "Rate Lace" duel. I listened to it a few times to make sure I wasn't tripping lol My dyslexia shows sometimes too
Love your videos!!
I live in STL, Gateway was my first race and it was better than I expected. Us STL sports fans show up if you put it here. i cant wait for next year
Great video!
The highest attended event I've ever been at was the 2023 BriSCA Formula 2 World Championship weekend at Nutts Corner Raceway in Northern Ireland. For a track that maybe gets a thousand folks to turn out getting almost 10x that was HUGE and honestly might have saved what is a pretty historic venue for Northern Irish Stock Car Racing from bankruptcy.
The 2008 New Hampshire race was my first race ever. I to this day still have not seen so many people in one place in my life. It was absolutely insane. I didn’t even get out of the parking lot until midnight.
Fun fact about that pocono race not many people know. After Jr qualified on pole after a brief rain shower, in the fuel up sonoco station in the infield one of kurt Busch’s crew members crashed a golf cart into the left front nose of the car causing it to bend inwards. Nascar allowed them to try to straighten it out but if they chose to replace it, jr would have to go to the rear of the field. They opted to straighten it to their best ability. It’s believed that damage turned what was the best car at the track to simply just not having what it took speed wise to beat kurt.
I went to Watkins Glen in 2016 and this year. Both Cup races were sellout crowds. And both were really good races too!
Fantastic video
I went to the road america in 2021. Really special like you put it
Kansas speedway is my home track so I love going every year when nascar comes around, the biggest crowd I’ve ever been apart of was the 2022 Hollywood casino 400. The track looked sold out from where I was sitting and I thought it was awesome, I had never seen such a crowd at the track before and it was cool to be a part of it.
I got to go to the 2022 Adventhealth 400, crowd looked absolutely packed for that race as well
Went to the inaugural texas race, and kept going until 2001, also went to the inaugural night race at daytona, that was a massive crowd.
You should recap the attendance for each race this season when the season ends. That would be a cool video.
I was at that Dover race. They used to sell like since I started going in like 96.
Wow my first nascar race was a record setter for Michigan. In the words of Kyle petty that's incredible
I'd say either 2022 Geico 500 at Talledega or the Bristol race we just had. The only race I got to go to in my childhood was a Busch series race at Talledega in 2005. My family didn't feel it was worth it to travel to see a race or an NFL game. But maybe the largest sports crowd I've been apart of was Ole Miss retiring Eli Mannings jersey. The stadium only seats about 65,000 but in and around the stadium was about 150,000.
I was at the 04 600 when I was a kid. It took HOURS to get out the parking lot. The giant turn 2/backstretch grandstands,most of the turn 3&4 grandstands and some of the turn 1 stands are all gone. Charlotte might be lucky to get 70k now.
WGI sells out every yr since 2015 when i started going. im from nearby elmira and never saw the glen in person for any race.
This is an awesome idea for a video
I think the most attended race I've been to was the 2022 Dover race or 2015 Dover spring race. There was barely anyone there during 2017, 2018, and 2019
I went to the Indy 500 this year. Found out a few days later that 325,000 attended on race day. There was stand still traffic trying to get into the speedway about 3 miles away from the track. We ended up parking and walking 1 mile to get to the track. Got there early to go to the snake pit (concert in the infield). When we went to our seats for the race we walked under the bleachers. The walkway was about 100 feet wide from the bleachers to a fence behind the bleachers. It was a sea of people as far as you could see. We got to a point where we could go no further. When you looked around everyone from the fence to the bleachers was at a stand still. So crowded you couldn't move. We turned around and made our way to the front of the bleachers and went the rest of the way to our seats. The bleachers seemed to wrap around the entire track and go on forever. You couldn't find an empty seat. When certain drivers took the lead you could hear the crowd cheer over the cars. When the lead car came around you could hear the crowd cheering way off in the distance and getting louder as the car got closer. Soon everyone around you was cheering as the car flys by. The crowd dies down quickly. It's like the entire crowd is doing the wave but instead of standing they are cheering and that lead car is leading the cheer. It was an incredible experience. Everyone in our group said they have never attended an event with this many people. No sports even could compare to the massive crowd that showed up that day. It really is on another level.
Please do The Lowest Attended races at Every NASCAR Track
Yes
And rain-delayed races held on weekdays don't count.
Biggest race I’ve attended was the 2022 Coke 600 at Charlotte. I drove from Texas to be there that weekend
106K at Phoenix is absolutely absurd. 😆
2006 Pennsylvania 500 was packed and a hell of a time
I was at Brisol, when Earnhardt got BOOed. I was shocked!!!! GREATEST I ever saw!!!!
I guess i am why the California raceway is no longer open for the cup. I was there 3 years in a row and then had enough of the crowds. Thanks for the history
i was at that martinsville race that was my 1st nascar race enjoyed it
I was at the 1994 Brickyard 400, also my first Nascar race.
I got to attend the 2004 Atlanta fall race, and I’m honestly surprised it didn’t have more fans there than the spring race.
I'd have to check racing reference but I believe Bristol sold standing room only at the 05 or 06 night race and it was actually 165,000 for that race.
I went to the Bristol night race from 2008-2018 then finally got to go back this year. 2008-2011 were all sellouts and 2018 was the only year including this year that it dipped below 100k (estimated).
I was at the Talladega race in 2003 it was the seventh time I had been there and each time I went for those seven times I witnessed an Earnhardt win the race. I saw Dale Sr sweep both races in 1999, I saw his final win in October of 2000, and I saw Dale Jr win his four in a row. The eighth race I attended was Michael Waltrip's win and then the next race was Earnhardt Jr back in victory lane. The next race I attended was Brad Keselowski's first Cup win the next five races I saw at Talladega were won by Keselowski and Earnhardt Jr. Haven't been back for a while.
My first race was actually that '03 race at Michigan. 160K!
I've been to several big Indy 500s with 2011 and 2016 sticking out. Indy doesn't officially release attendance records but both were between 325k and 350k with 2016 probably being north of 350k.
I was at the 2013 Watkins Glen race. It was absolutely packed
3:33 I also remember that Rate Lace Duel
As a former jackman...I've been to most of these tracks and they are such great tracks for the most part
Been to 4 different nascar events: 2009 Aarons 499 (Brad turning Carl in the fence race) 2011 Atlanta (Hamlin won) 2016 Talladega fall race (Lagano won) and the most attended race I went to was 2020 Daytona 500 (Newman wreck). Also going to Talladega in 2 weeks again!
I was at 2021 Nashville and traffic wasn’t the worst tbh, but it did suck that they ran out of water. It was also hot as hell too
My dad went to a race at auto club around the mid-2000’s. I don’t know exactly when but it was around ‘03
"In a rate lace duel" Nice... 😀 Ahhh... the halcyon days of races with stands where you'd be hard pressed to see a single seat or section of bench.
I went to the Daytona 500 this year and Was seated at the entry to turn 1. I could look to my left and see the entirety of the grandstands and it blew my mind how many people I was looking at. Over 120,000 with another 20-30,000 in the infield. It was insane
Ahh 2003 the golden years of nascar. even the racing games back then were the best n2003
3:32 “rate lace duel” lmaooo
Makes me sad to see the smaller crowds of todays nascar.