Mayor Bloomberg speaks in favor of NASCAR

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Vandar wrote:

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malonekath (AT) aol (DOT) com wrote:

Alan Jones wrote:

Bloomberg speaks in favor of NASCAR
TOM WROBLESKI

[...]

"There are other uses for that land which may create worse traffic
jams than the three weekends a year NASCAR wants to do,"
Bloomberg told reporters yesterday after marching in the Staten

3 weekends?

Cup, BGN, Trucks, Mods, etc.
NASCAR sponsors a lot of series'.

I'm aware of that, thanks. but generally Cup and Busch and/or CTS are
run on the same weekend (2 of the 3 any given Cup weekend). also,
except for the Martinsville Busch race, the current schedule format
doesn't have stand alone Busch or CTS races at Cup race tracks without
a companion Cup race (the LV CTS race and the night Busch race in
M'ville being the exceptions and the M'ville date generally thought, as
I understand it, to be a test run for a possible night Cup race at
M'ville). so at the most that would be 2 race weekends.

also, if they're unsure of the profitibility of a Cup race in NYC, then
why add non-Cup races that definitely will not sell out as additional
weekends?

maybe the quote was meant to read/be "three .days. a year" instead.

Katharine

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"Vandar" <>

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Boston's too far away from the market they want to tap.

new england is nascar country. the busch north tour and the modefied are two

of nascars more successful series. you see cars with nascar stickers all
over boston.

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nascar sees the population of NYC and they get all pie eyed. new yuck
won't
allow the weeklong camping and tailgating which nascar fans have come
to
expect. hell they want to build a new stadium for the jets and ban game
day
tailgating.
nascar is not really an urban sport.

That's why they should put it upstate. There are a lot of race fans up
here. We have an extensive racing history. Race tracks everywhere.
Coupled with the fans from the city, they'd fill the seats.

cal shows that the whole country is not gaga for nascar. they are over
estimating the market and will pay in the long run by losing the fans
they
do have in pursuit of the ones they don't

I agree that they are expanding too far. It seems as if they draw a
circle around each track and they're trying to cover the entire country
in those circles, like radar.
That said, NY is a very large market that NASCAR doesn't play to.
Watkins Glen, Pocono, and Dover are way too far.

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