I am an ex-NASCAR fan. Once upon a time I traveled all over the Southeast following NASCAR. I have been to most of the tracks in the Southeast and Texas. Back then tickets were hard to get and every seat was filled. A few of the tracks I went several times a year. Atlanta, Talladega, Daytona, Darlington, Charlotte to name a few. Then NASCAR went Hollywood and it was all about money. They did away with traditions and made every car alike all in the name of parity. It killed everything and took the meaning out of stock car. Stock cars were cars you could go to a dealership and buy it off of the showroom floor. Then you could take it to the garage and work on the engine to get the max out of it.. Then it the track and go. Fireball Roberts, Lee Petty were part of that group.
Because of your post I turned on the race. There are entire sections of the track with no one sitting in them. If it is 10% capacity I haven't seen it. This year I had access to four tickets for the Daytona 500 and turned it down. I have not been to a race in 10 years and I doubt I ever will again. But I do love racing and fast cars so I go to some local speedways where racing is fun and wild. Now if I only had the thousands of dollars back I wasted on the sport of NASCAR