In the 35 years or so that I have been racing, the only time I have seen full stands for a bracket race have been either the Bracket Finals or when there was a booked-in show. Back before there were 24 national events a year you could always find a local track running fuel cars, funny cars, pro stockers, or jets/rockets on a bracket night. Fans loved it, racers hated it. The show took too much time because one of the fuel cars always puked.

Youn have not lived until you've made a pass right after the "Pollution Packer" rocket car.

Around here, the tracks don't even advertise bracket racing. I had raced at RT66 for 5 years and talked to people that didn't even know they had brackets there. When US30 was open everyone knew "SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY!!!!!!!!!".