NASCAR accused of padding numbers
According to the race report, there were 37,000 people here.
I don't know where they got that number, but the actual amount of fans in attendance was by far closer to 3,700 than 37,000.
It's tough to estimate these things, but I'm fairly confident there were about 8,000-10,000 people in the stands during the truck race. Even if there were 10,000 additional fans in the infield, that would only account for about half of NASCAR's estimate.
The bottom line is that not many fans took advantage of the track's doubleheader offer.
Quite honestly, this really wasn't the fault of anyone at Auto Club Speedway. For some reason, the race fans in Southern California just don't show up when NASCAR is in town.
As a California native, that makes me sad. But when the speedway offers two NASCAR races for the price of one – with a Sprint Cup Series practice thrown in for good measure – and the fans STILL don't show up, you have to ask: Will they ever? Scenedaily.com