Attendance fell for the second straight year at the Indianapolis MotoGP, days after it was announced that the motorcycle-racing
event would return in 2011.
A total of 136,184 spectators attended the three days of action at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Sunday's total attendance
of 62,794 fell from 75,130 last year, when the combined total for the weekend was 146,680.
The three-day total for the first event in 2008 was about 170,000.
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MotoGP attendance slips
Associated Press
August 29, 2010
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RKW's comments read like a modern "Chicken Little". As a Raintree resident for many years, "Yes, I'm ready for this." Matter of fact, I welcome The Farm because it's a development that compliments our town, brings new and desirable shopping & dining closer (specialty grocer, upscale shops, micro brew pub, etc), offers upscale condos for empty nesters who want to stay in Zionsville, is being planned and constructed by local, well-reputed firms and, of course, provides desirable non property tax benefits. We all knew the Pittman's were going to develop their property sooner than later. That one of the Pittman's will continue to live on the property helps assure The Farm will be everything promised. This also sets a standard for other developers as to the quality of future developments - which should keep an ugly Walmart at bay for decades. As we've no meglomaniac mayor, I seriously doubt Zionsville would ever aspire to over-priced statues or subsidized retail rents. And we already have a very nice public theater, the Zionsville Performing Arts Center, that meets our cultural needs quite nicely.
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Do we add (or subtract) these from the bounty we recieve from RTWFL, Daylight Savings Time, corporate tax giveaways, and the crack job IEDC is doing?? Or is Mike going to blame these on Mitch?
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Who makes Tater Tots? They would be a good sponsor, because $3 Million for the alleged "Greatest Spectacle In Racing" is taters. Tiny, tiny taters. But at least they are making up something of the losses accumulated over the years in this dying sport. Buttock in seat is certainly not doing it, nor eyeball on TV, as evidenced by the lack of both.
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We loved lakehouse and think the Arbor Village would be a great location. It is less than 2 miles from over 1000 rooftops in the 225,000 to over 1 million range. Many people could use the great fishers trail system to bike or walk there. Just an idea Scotty -- but maybe something closer to 3 Wiseman would good. The only microbrew in area is Ram (boring)
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True, it's an ESPN production, but ESPN is just another name for ABC Sports, or what used to be ABC Sports since ABC Sports no longer exists as a name. ESPN=ABC Sports= ESPN. ESPN is, according to Forbes "the world's most valuable media property" worth $40 billion. Despite that, they fired 400 people this week.
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1. You (the IBJ) can point me to how many articles leading up top the event this year? I can't seem to find them. And in particular, Anthony Schoettle's blog made ZERO mention of it this year, but instead carried countless weekly IMS press clippings of IndyCar. Where is the "get behind what is good for the city" attitude? Do you need me to write things and submit them? Its clear that this event is important to the local economy, and it is the business of sports....
2. Because the IRL is such a failure, don't you see this is having an effect on this race? The "sunday SUNDAY SSUUNNDDAAYY!" type TV ads they ran were embarrassing. The IMS management and in particular their "Marketing" department have driven away the F1 race, most of the Indy500 fans, and are working on destroying what is left of the Brickyard. They need to clean house and hire professionals. You want a cause for declining attendance? How about lack of PR and paid media, and also sending out the wrong message that this is some sort of "supercross" event. IMS gets it wrong more than Dave Calabro.
Finally, the group of a dozen or so I was with had 3 newbies in tow....and you know what? Hands down this event beats anything offered by the IRL or NASCAR, including the Indy 500.
:throws chicken bucket on track:
As far as IMS looking for other races, how about an IRL race on the road course in the fall?
Maybe if you would write some stories going into the event, and not just some regurgitated IMS press feeding, you might help get fans attention to the sport and event. Anthony writes 34,821 articles on the hapless .1RL, and ZERO about the Red Bull Indianapolis MotoGP?
You seem to be part of the problem here.