Richmond International Raceway's 33-race streak of NASCAR Sprint Cup sellouts is in danger of coming to an end, but track President Doug Fritz says he has not given up on a sellout.

The Sprint Cup race scheduled for tomorrow night has been postponed until Sunday at 1 p.m. Tickets are still available for the 112,000-capacity track, Fritz said, but he did not say how many. The Sprint Cup race in May sold out just a few hours before the event.

With a sluggish economy and high gas prices in play, many NASCAR tracks have seen attendance sag this year. Still, Fritz said, RIR had hoped it would fill all its seats again.

"We were hopeful," he said, but for the last two weeks this storm has been out there -- a tropical storm, then a hurricane, then a tropical storm again -- headed toward us. And for the last 10 days ticket sales have just about stopped."

The decision to postpone the race, he said, "was all about the weather. It didn't have anything to do with ticket sales. We're always happy to sell tickets to our races, but that wasn't considered in this case." Fritz said race tickets can be purchased at the track's Web site -- www.rir.com -- and at (866) 455-7223.

"We could still sell out," he said. "It's going to be close, and anything is possible."

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