IndyCar News: Has NASCAR Cup race killed the Gateway race?

Almost every time NASCAR brings a Cup race to a track that has been an IndyCar stronghold (think Gateway), eventually the IndyCar race dies off.

–by Mark Cipolloni–

The list is long.

As soon as the NASCAR Cup Series began to race at World Wide Technology Raceway (formerly called Gateway) the IndyCar race attendance dropped off precipitously.

IndyCar will be racing at WWTR in two weeks and looking at the available tickets online it appears approximately 10% of the seats are sold – even worse than last year and last year was bad.

They are going to have to plaster the market with free ticket giveaways to make it look good. Regardless, the future of IndyCar at Gateway appears to be in serious jeopardy.

It’s not the first time the IndyCar race has died at Gateway. CART and the IRL raced there from 1997 to 2003. The race died after 2003 and did not return until 2017 and there is a contract to race there at least through 2025.

Can it be saved?

Time will tell.

Another IndyCar Race Killed by NASCAR?