Auto Club Speedway Demonstrates Utter Retardedness, Again...and Again...

[MattSRD28]

The Dale Jr & Danica Ticket Package:

Auto Club Speedway announced a limited number of the Dale Jr. and Danica Patrick ticket packages have been released in anticipation of Danica Patrick making her NASCAR Nationwide Series debut during Auto Club Speedway's Stater Bros. 300 for JR Motorsports on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010.

For only $88 (a $140 value), the Dale Jr. and Danica Patrick ticket package includes:
· Saturday general admission seat to the NNS Stater Bros 300 race and qualifying*
· Sunday lower reserved grandstand seat to the NSCS Auto Club 500 race
· Weekend Pre-Race Pit Pass and a Parking Pass
(* Danica's participation in the Stater Bros. 300 is subject to qualifying results)

With children 12 and under FREE on Friday and Saturday of race weekend, the $88 Dale Jr. and Danica Patrick ticket package is a great value for the entire family. The Dale Jr. and Danica Patrick ticket package expires on Jan. 31, or while supplies last. To purchase tickets, visit us online at Auto Club Speedway - Auto Club Speedway or by calling 800-944-RACE (7223).

So yeah...buy the Dale Jr./Danica ticket which includes a crapperific lower level seat including such features as a blocked view of the backstretch, cars that ride close to the wall on a banked frontstretch making it impossible to see the cars basically anywhere besides turns 1 & 4, and behind the grandstands, a wonderful experience of having to walk past a gazillion tables that are right outside your grandstand section but you have no access to them because you're not a Speedway Club member. Buy yours today!!!

Crappy-performing drivers whoring their names out so a speedway can sell crappier seats that they couldn't otherwise sell because people know full well that they mostly suck. The parking pass is an even bigger joke because parking WAS free for many, many years at ACS...but I guess that's changed now if parking passes are being given out. So much for the only way ACS basically wasn't screwing every single fan in the rear from the second they drove onto the property.

Oh, and Danica might crash in qualifying and not even be in the race you bought a Danica ticket to go see.

Doesn't this sound like a really well thought-out plan? And people wonder why Auto Club (California) Speedway has a problem selling out...

 

[Bwallace83]

at first glance, i thought it said "Auto Club Speedway Demolished" and got EXTREMELY excited.

 

[wslates]

That is why I have never been to a Nascar race....that is the closest track to me. Pay $160 to sit in the front row. Woo!

 

[David24]

Don't be hating....

 

[Josh Mertz]

at first glance, i thought it said "Auto Club Speedway Demolished" and got EXTREMELY excited.

Same here :frown:

 

[Scott Womack]

The Dale Jr. and Danica Patrick ticket package expires on Jan. 31, or while supplies last. To purchase tickets, visit us online at Auto Club Speedway - Auto Club Speedway or by calling 800-944-RACE (7223).

Okay if the race isn't until Febuary, your tickets will expire before the race even happens!....LMAO

 

[wslates]

The Dale Jr. and Danica Patrick ticket package expires on Jan. 31, or while supplies last. To purchase tickets, visit us online at Auto Club Speedway - Auto Club Speedway or by calling 800-944-RACE (7223).

Okay if the race isn't until Febuary, your tickets will expire before the race even happens!....LMAO

plus the $70 tax.

 

[David24]

So much negativity towards a great racetrack....

 

[wslates]

So much negativity towards a great racetrack....

It is a GREAT track, they just charge way too much for tickets, then wonder why no one comes. :crying:

 

[super39fan]

Give the cars restrictor plates and throw on some banking and people might buy that...

 

[Fisha695]

Just about every track has crappy gimmick packages like this, and for the most part they always have.

 

[David24]

Give the cars restrictor plates and throw on some banking and people might buy that...

Good idea...but then that would cause Nascar to enforce rules like they did at the last Talladega race and make more people mad....it's been said so many times before....Nascar can't make the majority happy.

 

[Kevin_McAdams]

The Dale Jr. and Danica Patrick ticket package expires on Jan. 31, or while supplies last. To purchase tickets, visit us online at Auto Club Speedway - Auto Club Speedway or by calling 800-944-RACE (7223).

Okay if the race isn't until Febuary, your tickets will expire before the race even happens!....LMAO

That's the deal...not the ticket itself.

 

[DPawlak]

What's retarded is that they'll probably sell...

 

[Fisha695]

What's retarded is that they'll probably sell...

Exactly, and I think the legendary Chris Economaki wrote a book or an article about it, it's called "Promotion". Promotions sell tickets, Promotions get people talking, most importantly Promotions make money.

Atlanta Speedway has that Racing Roulette thing
Daytona has that "Sit with Jimmy & Kenny" thing usually, and this year they have some Michael Waltrip special ticket package.
Vegas has some promotion too going on right now I think too.

Bottom line is "it's part of the game", you gotta move tickets any way you can.

 

[David24]

Everything is about money nowadays. You'd be stupid to say otherwise.

 

[Josh Mertz]

Give the cars restrictor plates and throw on some banking and people might buy that...

What I like about NR2003

1.) you don't need lots of banking to produce superspeedway like racing
2.) Tracks always look sold out, that's great for offline leagues

And how is Auto Club Snoozeway a great track?

 

[Fisha695]

Everything is about money nowadays. You'd be stupid to say otherwise.

Everything has always been about money, it's just people were too stupid to realize it before.

 

[David24]

And how is Auto Club Snoozeway a great track?

Did you not watch the last February race? It was pretty much on the edge of your seat race at the end.

Oh and not to mention, top speeds are around 207 mph very often.

 

[ColoRadio]

I go to all the ACS races (because I'm stationed in CA and it's the closest to me - I also attend PIR) and I have to say it's not all its cracked up to be. PIR is much better in my opinion, and I pay $35 to sit on the hill there and drink some beer. Not a bad deal. I go to ACS and I'm dropping at least $70 a person not including parking or anything (just to see the cars once or twice in one lap). PIR I can see them the entire racetrack - and pit road. Idk, ACS is not the best track to me. And this ticket deal had me cracking up. The only thing Dale Jr and Danica have in common is they're both relatively unsuccessful and their names are extremely popular....