I remember about 20 years ago during the peak of nascraps popularity, tickets for the cup races at the 160,000 seat Bristol motor speedway were made of unobtainabium. I finally went once, paid double the face price, decided I had much more fun at Richmond. I went to both Richmond races for years. One weekend I used to live out of the truck for four days at the track. Went down Thursday for trucks that night, stayed for Bush on Fridays and cup on Sunday's. Slept it off in the truck Saturday night and drove home Sunday, and, there must've been about 100 other vehicles in the lot doing the same thing. They(NASCAR) used to let you bring a soft sided six pack cooler into the stands with you, post September 11. The other Richmond race I'd caravan down with a bunch of friends from this area. We left here at 6am for the 8pm race. We usually pulled into the fairgrounds about 9(traffic was bad) and tailgated all day. If you weren't there by 9-9:30 you were going to be stuck in one of the remote lots. The cup race was over a $400 day, per person, after drink/food, race ticket, souvenirs and of course the scanner rental.