"Live" from Joliet 2013

[Geerhead55]

Originally Posted by BKSG1198

Chicago always looks like a ghost town everytime I see it on TV. I think when they built Route 66 it was during the stadium style craze with seating and the economy was good. I mean Chicago may have had the same amount of people as Epping did but, Epping has smaller grandstands (Maybe 20 rows high) that spread people out along the race track and makes it look full for the TV. Trust me from the reports I heard from people Epping WAS PACKED. Chicago is like 50 rows high so even if they draw a good crowd it looks bare. Maybe It's time for some of this tracks that have that type of seating to look into downgrading. I heard Daytona is knocking down all the back stretch grandstands in a renovation project so that they can fill everyone in on the front stretch to make it look like a bigger crowd for the 500.

Remember Chicago used to have 2 NHRA Nationals but, they took 1 away because they said they didn't draw a crowd.

Thanks once again Larry and Patsy for doing the live reporting, maybe one day you'll make a wrong turn and come East to E-Town or Maple Grove!

It could happen,,,, they once made a wrong turn and ended up in Seattle! For their efforts,, they were handed a west coast rule book and a bottle of one of our local wines,, a fair trade I think.
Danny Durham

[bigshow2966]

Originally Posted by BKSG1198

Remember Chicago used to have 2 NHRA Nationals but, they took 1 away because they said they didn't draw a crowd.

Actually, RT 66 gave it away because they didn't want it in the first place. The facility manager himself told me they were afraid it would simply split the crowd from the first race into 2 crowds, it would not draw double the people. That was before the second event occurred, and he was right.