NASCAR in Daytona 2016
It's that time of year again; the beginning of the NASCAR season. I'll be there from the 12th thru the 21st. Anybody else going in their RV ??
Forum Discussion
fla-gypsy wrote:
The tv coverage tries their best to not show all the empty seats but there are plenty of them. Daytona has reduced it's seating, why?
For the same reason that the US oil industry is laying off thousands of workers right now. Short sighted business men in all kinds of fields buy into a "boom" mentality and try too hard to suck up a bigger share while a boom is going on. Then when the bust comes.....and it always does.....they are over-built and over staffed.
Daytona had a seating capacity of something like 145,000 at it's peak. WAY too much to be sustainable. Might still be too big but supply and demand will figure that out in a few years. I suspect that they will be able to fill most or all of the "cheap seats". The suites and other premium seats might be a different story. I do think they are overpriced.
And I fully understand that you might be bored with the "sport" right now. But I find it rather unusual that you feel a need to advertise and defend that boredom.
