Central Georgia Sports ReportComment

FYI Friday: A potpourri, a gumbo of items you can win bets with, or just be happy to be smarter after reading

Central Georgia Sports ReportComment
FYI Friday: A potpourri, a gumbo of items you can win bets with, or just be happy to be smarter after reading

By Michael A. Lough

The Sports Report

centralgasports@gmail.com

          Welcome to The Central Georgia Sports Report’s new feature: FYI Friday.

Every Friday (or a day or two later), during the visit you should make every day to The Sports Report to gain knowledge, come get specific information on specific topics, answers to questions you didn’t know you had, but answers you’re glad to get.

          If you like being smarter. Welcome

          Bristol Motor Speedway is on the lips of sports fans the last week or so, but it has nothing to do with Elliott or Hamlin or Busch.

          It’s about baseball, and a record crowd for a Major League game of around 85,000.

          That’ll leave a whopping 77,000 empty seats, the baseball configuration taking up only 52.5 percent of the seating capacity.

          The Braves-Reds baseball game is the second major event at Bristol in the last decade.

          Tennessee and Virginia Tech played a college football game before nearly 157,000 I 2016.

          Where does Bristol rank among the nation’s racing shrines as far as seating capacity?

          First, though different sources have different numbers. This, though, comes from a story based on reports from Speedway MotorSports documents filed with the SEC, and Wikipedia.

1. Indianapolis Motor Speedway, 400,000

2. Bristol, 162,000

3. Daytona International Speedway, 125,000

4. Charlotte Motor Speedway, 95,000

5. Talladega Superspeedway, 80,000

6. Las Vegas Motor Speedway, 80,000

7. Texas Motor Speedway, 75,000

8. EchoParks-Atlanta Motor Speedway, 71,000

9. Michigan International Speedway, 56,000

10. Dover International Speedway, 55,000