Seattle Attendance

[clwill]

FYI, the annual attendance of approx. 2mil for NHRA would be right about the middle of the road for a baseball franchise (see: 2011 MLB Attendance - Major League Baseball - ESPN) and that's for three times as many events. Not bad.

One more random stat: 6 times more people tuned into the live stream of the Mars Curiosity landing than watch the average NHRA race (3.2 vs 0.5 million).

 

[rocketman]

You also have to consider that Seattle has a very lame schedule this year. Other than a divisional event with no alcohol cars this is the only drag race with anything other than carb cars so the fans came out to see nitro while they had the chance.