12th
January
2009
Daytona 500 not immune from recession’s squeeze
posted in Nascar News |By the end of January last year, every grandstand ticket for the Daytona 500 was sold out. Now, with that anniversary rapidly approaching, Daytona International Speedway president Robin Braig looks around his mammoth 2.5-mile facility and sees much of a backstretch — or “superstretch,” in Daytona-speak — yet to be filled.