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Does anyone that was at the race hear how many people were in the stadium. It looked surprising similar to Jacksonville's dismal turn out. I seem to remember there always being a decent crowd show up at Houston in the past so I was a little surprised to see so many open seats. I kind of wish Seattle sx was like that so I could choose where I sit but Seattle is always pretty packed. I guess we'll see in a couple weeks.
If there were 15-20K actually in person at Reliant Sat. night, that's stretching it. In the 15yrs that I've been going, this is by far the lowest actual fannies in the seats I've ever ever seen. Pits had hardly any folks in them too.
There has been a steady decline in actual people there in the last 4-5yrs. Makes me wonder when did they stop the semi's from the program?
The NHRA event was this weekend too and I think that's where most went.
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I dont get how people have the money to go watch avatar, but dont have the money for a supercross race. People must have their priorities mixed or somethin.
As for the pits being empty. Not sure what time you were there, but when we strolled through about 4ish, it was packed. More so than I've ever seen.
There weren't 44k people there. Not even close to that number. Tickets sold is not bodies in the seats. Which again, as long as they are sold, that's all the matters to FELD.
Regardless what our opinions are on attendance, it was still a fun time, the track was great and so was the racing.
What did they have in that other area? The wake-board display or that Air Force jet? Really dont remember that being part of the main pits.
Below is the press release from Feld:
4/11/2010
Courtesy of Feld Motor Sports...
HOUSTON, Texas (April 10, 2010) – Monster Energy AMA Supercross, an FIM World Championship, visited the great state of Texas for the second time in 2010 in front of 44,624 fans from Houston’s Reliant Stadium. After a one week break, the world’s best supercross riders returned to action on Saturday night as Monster Energy Kawasaki’s Ryan Villopoto, of Poulsbo, Wash., won his seventh AMA Supercross class race of the year. Monster Energy/Pro Circuit/Kawasaki’s Christophe Pourcel, of Groveland, Fla., captured his fifth win of the AMA Supercross Lites Eastern Regional Championship season and claimed his second consecutive title in the process.
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I just checked with our arena manager and he said that's how attendance figures go out for events, tickets sold.
He said, think of it like this. When you see a venue say, "in front of a sold out crowd" do you really think everyone showed up that bought a ticket?
On my own opinion and experience, there's never been empty seats in just my section alone. My section appeared to be only half full this year and in fact, a group that I know said they were going to move to sit in our section but saw the other empty seats and went seat hopping to see the race from different views.
Looking throughout the stadium, I can't recall any section that was full or even close to being full. Guess taking a look at some photos will show whats what.
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