More than 17,000 seats have been removed from Dover International Speedway, lowering overall seating capacity to less than 100,000.
NASCAR fans will notice the seat reductions in turns two and three, which had been the lowest selling sections of the track in recent years.
The seat trimming process isn’t over either. After the fall race weekend, work will begin on removing the upper sections of turn three. That will lower overall seating capacity to 85,000.
The reduction in seats comes after a major expansion at the facility through the 1990s..
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