Wednesday, January 05, 2000
Kentucky Speedway seat count: 65,989
BY TERRY FLYNN
The Cincinnati Enquirer
SPARTA, Ky. — Kentucky Speedway will have 65,989 seats available for race fans when the 1.5-mile tri-oval opens for the first race weekend in June, and 5,000 of those seats are already sold for the 2000 racing season.
Speedway vice president Mark Cassis said Tuesday the official seat count is 61,281 in the lower grandstand area and 4,708 in the tower area.
Over 2,800 of the desireable tower seats have already been sold for the opening season which includes three race weekends and a total of six races in June, July and August.
“Combined with the PSL (personal seats licenses) we sold, we're over 8,000 seats sold as of (Tuesday),” Cassis said. “That amounts to about $1.1 million in ticket sales, and we only started selling season tickets a little before Christmas.”
The Speedway, which will offer NASCAR, ARCA and IRL racing this year, has just 35 seats remaining for sale at $5,000 each in the 210-seat interior club area. Of the 50 private suites that lease for $105,000 for three years, only one enclosed suite and two open air suites remain.
Officials with the Petty Driving Experience of Charlotte, N.C., a stock car driving school under the leadership of NASCAR legend Richard Petty and his family, recently informed Cassis that the Sept. 12-17 Experience scheduled at Kentucky Speedway is already 75 percent sold out.
Cassis also said the speedway will begin its ticketing operation and will open a ticket office at the Drawbridge Inn in Fort Mitchell in about two weeks.
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