Found the following at Jayski: "NASCAR will no longer provide attendance estimate: NASCAR will end its policy of providing estimated attendance figures in its race reports this season. Spokesman Kerry Tharp said tracks still will have the option of providing crowd estimates, but it will be their prerogative. "NASCAR's race reports generally becomes a box score for the media, and box scores from sporting events do not generally provide estimates," Tharp said. Of the 23 tracks that play host to races in NASCAR's premier series, 21 are owned by publicly traded companies such as International Speedway Corp. and Speedway Motorsports Inc. Officials with those tracks have said they don't provide attendance figures because they don't want to provide earnings guidance.(USA Today)(2-17-2013)"

Love how they try to claim it's because they don't want people to be able to try to figure out earnings, yeah right! When business was booming and the stands were overflowing they had no problem with that but now they do? What's next, they'll make it part of their tv contracts that there's to be no shots on tv that show empty stands?