My Sister told me she heard an add for the drags on a country station if you can believe it! You always expect to hear adds on Rock stations.

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Around here most Country music fans like NHRA and NASCAR, both. Unfortunately, some tend to lean towards the NASCAR race in Dallas the following weekend and bypass the NHRA O'Reilly Nationals.

I heard it, too......on both types of stations. Doesn't surprise me one bit!

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I mainly listen to country. But, the country station here in Chicago, US99, does a lot of NASCAR coverage, since the morning DJ is a huge NASCAR fan. He has interviewed Tony Schu a few times and they have done things at the track. The Joliet country station has done stuff at the track too.
That is great there seems to be more ads this year (seems to me at least).

I dont know if NHRA or HRP does the marketing for the event here, but whoever does it normally covers alot of different radio stations around here. And Joe, Country Radio in Houston is BIG.

Maybe it's a Texass thing, but here in NM the demographics between the NHRA and Circletrack fans is night and day!

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Not here. It seems here if your a fan of one of the following then your a fan of all: country music, NHRA, Nascar, rodeo, fishing, hunting, etc.

This weekend, Houston has the "sweet-sixteen" southwest regional NCAA games competing for sports fan dollars and newspaper space, the following weekend San Antonio is sharing the weekend with the NCAA Final Four. Not only do the basketball games run over into our TV time, they drive the price of hotel rooms through the roof!

All that aside, they have been running some "you gotta be crazy" type ads on TV here in Houston, so somebody is trying to pump the crowd up.

I agree the compression of events in Houston isn't great . . . however we've chased teams around the NCAA venues many times and given that there are two games Friday night, and one game Sunday night (and most Hotels require a 3 night stay . . . 4 nights the next weekend at The Final Four in San Antonio where the IHRA nationals will be going on the same weekend!) I know where I'd go to fill the time . . . send any unwilling participants to the movies or shopping and head to the track for fun and sun.

I've got basketball tickets Sunday night (and great tickets/RV parking at HRP) so we'll just make due!

Same up here. Like Hatfields and McCoys. It's almost like they speak different languages.

I don't get it. I like motors and things that go fast. I prefer drags, but have been to a few NASCAR races and you gotta like the sound of 30+ high horsepower V8's coming around into turn 1. Yes, it's nothing like nitro cars, but it's still pretty cool.

As for ads, when the race comes up here on the Swing, they do a pretty good job. All kinds of radio stations, and a surprising amount of TV ads. It has to be NHRA, because I can't believe the local track has the coin to pony up for the coverage they do.

O Schitt I better get a SA reservation right now !

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What gets me is Sea-Tac is a Huge market with very little Motorsports competition, yet the NHRA race doesn't draw nearly as many fans as say Pomona or Dallas.

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I don`t know, I`d say Pacific Raceways packs `em in pretty good Joe. I think they set attendence records there in `06 and `05. Obviously they don`t have the seating capacity of Pomona or Ennis, but it`s generally standing room only if the weathers good.

They must be following you there Chris! BTW what does the wife want in Houston?

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