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Spicoli
08-01-07, 08:13 PM
IMS cutting number of seats by 5,136

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http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070801/SPORTS01/70801040
Indy
08-01-07, 08:38 PM
Doesn't the first turn terrace include the bleachers which are open to the public daily to watch testing?
Ed_Severson
08-01-07, 08:50 PM
The first turn terrace is the set of bleachers open to the public during testing.

Er, was.
DagoFast
08-01-07, 08:57 PM
Hum...

Cutting out over 5000 seats that should bring in in excess of $125,000. while also pouring more money into changing the track so he can pay yet more money to Dorna to bring MotoGP? :confused:

They must only teach that business course in Terre Haute. :tony:
Indy
08-01-07, 09:02 PM
Hum...

Cutting out over 5000 seats that should bring in in excess of $125,000. while also pouring more money into changing the track so he can pay yet more money to Dorna to bring MotoGP? :confused:

They must only teach that business course in Terre Haute. :tony:

Don't care.


MotoGP!!! MotoGP!!! MotoGP!!!

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devilmaster
08-01-07, 10:00 PM
They must only teach that business course in Terre Haute. :tony:

There's a satellite course offered in Alaska also. :gomer:
Methanolandbrats
08-01-07, 10:54 PM
Damn, that means there are only 344,864 seats available for the Indy 500.
pchall
08-02-07, 07:13 AM
They must only teach that business course in Terre Haute. :tony:

Another brave move that makes every Sycamore proud.
Rogue Leader
08-02-07, 07:37 AM
Whats sad is even if you watched the BY 400 (the biggest event there now :( ) you could see that there were plenty of open seats, Its still not gonna sell out with 5000 less seats.

Pretty sad.....
DagoFast
08-02-07, 11:08 AM
Damn, that means there are only 344,864 seats available for the Indy 500.

More gomermath?
According to the Scar, I think you are off by about 100k. ;)
eiregosod
08-02-07, 11:47 AM
attn gomers:

don't look for the bikers to respect the site of the first time you up-chucked your first beer.

The Indy 500 will still be the 3rd most important race at the Brickyard in 2008 and the gomers will still whine about it.
cameraman
08-02-07, 12:48 PM
So instead of having 75,000 empty seats at the races they will only have 69,900:rolleyes:

Really, who cares.
oddlycalm
08-02-07, 02:01 PM
What they need to do is downsize TG. Put him back in his former role as good for nothing %*$ for brains that isn't in charge of anything more important than his own digestive tract. :thumbup:

oc
Chief
08-02-07, 02:02 PM
I was reading the Indystar forums and read this GEM of a reply to Tony George KILLED the 500:


Tony George is out looking for the real killer of the Indy 500.

Sincerely,
OJ Simpson:rofl:
Spicoli
08-02-07, 03:50 PM
I was reading the Indystar forums and read this GEM of a reply to Tony George KILLED the 500:

:rofl:


those forums are great. "I shoulda worn a rubber"
trauma1
08-02-07, 04:46 PM
best thing is to put a bunch of B-2's wing tip to wing tip and nuke the place
Andrew Longman
08-02-07, 04:49 PM
Track president Joie Chitwood called it “insignificant” during today's tour of the construction site


5136 is just a number
trauma1
08-02-07, 05:24 PM
5136 is just a number

so is 33:gomer:
JLMannin
08-03-07, 11:28 AM
Before the golf course, there used to be bleachers on the inside of all four turns, and even a few bleachers in the inside back stretch. For the one and only 500 I attended in person in 1992, I sat in bleachers in the inside of turns 3 and 4 in the short chute.
pchall
08-03-07, 08:12 PM
best thing is to put a bunch of B-2's wing tip to wing tip and nuke the place

The USAF has specific weapons for pavement busting that lets redevelopment start without a half a million year wait. And they won't make Ziggy's house glow in the dark, either.