Kansas Speedway To Sell Individual Race Tickets Next Season

Kansas Speedway is "changing its ticket policy for 2011 and will allow fans to purchase tickets for each of the four races instead of requiring" that they buy season tickets, according to Randy Covitz of the K.C. STAR. Fans in previous years were "required to buy season tickets for all speedway events — the IndyCar Series, the Camping World Trucks Series, the NASCAR Nationwide and the Sprint Cup Series" — while this season they "had the option of buying weekend packages." The Izod IndyCar Series will not return to the facility next season, and for the "first time in the track's 11-year history, the 2011 schedule will include two NASCAR Sprint Cup races."

Yesterday's Sprint Cup Series Price Chopper 400 drew an estimated 100,000 at the track. Kansas Speedway President Pat Warren said, "We're strong, but we'll have twice as many Sprint Cup tickets to sell next year, so we want people who may not have an opportunity to attend in the spring to attend in the fall, or if they can't attend Saturday's event in the fall, they can attend Sunday, or vice-versa." The author writes the move is a "leap of faith that the trucks and Nationwide Series can continue to draw large crowds without the required Sprint Cup ticket" K.C. STAR