IndyCar race fans prefer street and road courses
09/05/11 Contrast and compare attendance at IndyCar oval tracks (Indy excluded) with road and street courses and it's easy to see that IndyCar fans prefer road and street races. This idea that the series has to maintain a 50/50 split of ovals vs. road and street races is utter nonsense.
Racing on ovals with grandstands built for NASCAR results in IndyCar looking like a complete loser series because of all the empty seats. If IndyCar fans like oval races so much how come they are not buying tickets to the races in mass? Answer – Because the 50/50 split is a fallacy left over from the old-timers who cannot get over the fact that NASCAR monopolizes and signifies oval racing in America and IndyCar will always be a third cousin.
Even on TV, IndyCar fans prefer the road and street events. Versus told Baltimore race organizers that Sunday's event was its highest-rated IndyCar event, topping previous broadcasts by 59 percent and boosting the season's IndyCar ratings by 25 percent.