NASCAR: Winners And Losers From Indianapolis

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Jul 24, 2016; Indianapolis, IN, USA; NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Kyle Busch (18) drives into turn one during the Combat Wounded Coalition 400 at the Brickyard at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Mandatory Credit: Brian Spurlock-USA TODAY Sports /

Loser: The Bleachers

I feel like this is used just about every week, but it’s just another one of the many problems NASCAR is facing right now. The attendance was terrible on one of the biggest weekends of the season.

The Brickyard 400 is arguably the second-biggest race of the year–behind the Daytona 500 of course–but, it certainly didn’t seem that way after the race got started.

As Kyle Busch flew out to an early lead–one that he would hold for a majority of the day–it was obvious that the stands were lacking. The biggest eye-popper was on the front straightaway, where the entire bottom row looked about a fourth of the way full.

You could make excuses that it was hot or that Dale Earnhardt Jr. wasn’t racing so fans just decided not to come, but both of those points are invalid.

The heat has never stopped NASCAR fans from coming to races before, especially at tracks like Indy that feature many covered areas.

Also, it wasn’t like Loudon where Alex Bowman was in the No. 88 car, Jeff Gordon was driving. While the track still probably had somewhere around 50,000 fans in attendance, it certainly wasn’t enough and it was disappointing to see so many empty seats at such a historic track.

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