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00:00saturday the speedway classic takes place joe have you heard about the speedway classic
00:05yeah it's um it it goes in the same way uh in the category of what they were doing at the field of
00:13dreams in in iowa right it's a i don't want to say a publicity stunt but it's basically
00:19a pr opportunity uh to try and get you know fans uh involved in major league baseball that
00:26otherwise might not catch a game anytime soon in such a crazy setting it's a cornfield and now
00:33it's a nascar track how about this too because i'm getting taking a look at some of the like the
00:39viewing of the stadium itself it is massive out there it really is and it looks like it actually
00:44fits in there pretty well now some of the information that went through from uh nascar's
00:49reporting is materials that went into effort were 340 tons of infield clay 450 wall pads
00:5617 500 tons of rock 80 000 square feet of backstop netting 124 000 square feet of diamond series
01:06astroturf and we have the final product 330 down both lines 400 to dead center so it's a generic
01:13field itself but the atmosphere is crazy now ivan you know because it takes place tomorrow do we have
01:17any idea like what the ticket sales are for this one like how many people have bought tickets for
01:23i'm just trying to find the layout what do we got you know what 85 000 they have sold wow 85 they
01:29said the venue holds 90 uh up to 90 000 but in uh attendance i i guess it breaks the all-time
01:38regular season game attendance record more than 85 000 tickets have already been sold to this
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