NASCAR: Talladega sees 100K crowd for NASCAR Cup race

Talladega Superspeedway saw a crowd of around 60,000 people in the grandstands for Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race, along with thousands more in sold-out campgrounds, according to sources. Yesterday’s Geico 500 was won by Trackhouse Racing’s Ross Chastain, as one of its biggest annual events was held with no threat of rain. The main grandstand seats about 80,000 people at capacity, and a source said that the roughly 60,000-person crowd was up from what the track saw for its spring race in ’19.

Talladega, the legacy ISC track that is now owned by NASCAR, also sold out of camping spots in the infield and outside of the gates on adjacent land, adding what is estimated to be tens of thousands of additional fans on the grounds. That pushes the total number of people on site yesterday toward or into the 100,000 range. Adam Stern/SBJ