Rolex 24 hours at Daytona .

If you add all the people in the grandstand it would probably fill the Petty,Nextel and Earnhardt Towers.

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Originally Posted by grandam

You can get a garage pass for $35. It seems like every year more people are going to the rolex.

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yes because they can see the Nextel Cup and IRL stars for a cheaper price than a NNC or IRL event :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by FormerFF

A couple of years ago, it was announced on Speed that the 24 hour race had set a new attendance record. Of course, they wouldn't say what that record was, so it remains a mystery.

Odd question: I've been watching it for years on TV, but I've never seen an overhead shot of Daytona for the 24 hour race. Does anyone else remember seeing one? At every other non-street race I've seen, I've always seen an overhead of the track, weather permitting.

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Being there, the crowd is 90% + in the infield...the grandstands have some people in them. Although I don`t remember a TV shot as you ask.

The Rolex is place you can take a family without worry though.
Sebring?...well....just don`t stay overnight (unless you have beads). :D

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Originally Posted by FormerFF

Way more at Sebring.

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But how many at Sebring actually know there is a race going on, compared to those at Daytona?

Bobby Labonte and Bill Lester have been added to drive in the rolex.

i just wish i could afford to go to either one

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Originally Posted by Gunman

But how many at Sebring actually know there is a race going on, compared to those at Daytona?

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Nearly all of them, at both races. I was at Sebring last year, and everyone I met was both interested and knowledgeable. The old theory was that it was just a place for drunken college kids on Spring Break just isn't true. If anything, the crowd skews a little older than the Petit LeMans.

Race crowds are a lot saner than they used to be. When I first started going to races (1972), they were wild. You'd show up in the morning, there'd be guys passed out in the mud. Anybody remember the bog at Watkins Glen? Guys would bring old beater cars and drive them thorough the bog. If they got stuck, somebody would set the car on fire. At the 1973 six hour/Can-Am, I think there were four burned out cars in the bog on Sunday morning. One year somebody stole a Greyhound bus and it got burned in the bog. The next year track management filled it in.

Have you been to a ALMS race for the pit walk? It's the most amazing thing. They open the pits for the pit walk and about 5000 people stream in. Everybody slowly walks by the cars for 15 or 20 minutes, then the announcement goes out to clear the grid. Everyone starts to leave, no fuss, no bother. It's the most well behaved large crowd I've ever seen.

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Originally Posted by FormerFF

Nearly all of them, at both races. I was at Sebring last year, and everyone I met was both interested and knowledgeable.

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I didn't make Sebring last year, but in prior years there was more than a few in the Green Park that were there just for the party. The amount of debauchery at Sebring is way beyond what I've seen at Daytona.

I've also got the 1993 Sebring Mud Pit DVD, its a classic if you haven't seen it.

Last year I watched both Rolex 24 and 12h of Sebring, and from the TV, its clear that the ALMS classic have much more crowd.

anyway both are 2 great races,and these are my favourites real endurance races, in order :

- Le Mans 24 Hours
- Spa 24 Hours, FIA GT event
- 12 Hours of Sebring
- Petit Le Mans
- Rolex 24

The paint scheme on the 20 is TIGHT. Look for it on Wed.