As consumer confidence in the economy falls, bundles of unsold NASCAR tickets grow.

Ticket sales are soft at several International Speedway Corp.-owned tracks, which include Martinsville Speedway. Tickets remain for Sunday’s Goody’s Cool Orange 500.

Track president Clay Campbell, noting the economy, said Wednesday that ticket sales “have been soft this year versus years in the past.”

Martinsville offers free daily parking. Its lowest grandstand ticket, at $42, is among the sport’s most inexpensive. Even so, large gaps of empty seats Sunday would likely lead to questions about Martinsville’s hosting two cup races a year — something it has done since 1950.

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