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FW: 2010 MMSHoF inductees announced-----Original Message----- From: Allan Brown <speedways@comcast.net> Sent: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 10:44:34 Pacific Daylight T... READMORE |
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I was reading my Sports Business Journal this morning and was pondering the consequences of the NASCAR/Kentucky Speedway lawsuit and settlement. If you’ve been following the story the past several years, Kentucky Speedway’s founders filed an antitrust suit in 2005 against NASCAR and International Speedway Corp., which they lost.
Without question, that means Kentucky Speedway will likely land a Sprint Cup race for 2011, which means one of two things... they add a date to the schedule or they move a race from its current venue.
Speedway Motorsports Inc. purchased the track from Kentucky Speedway's founders and SMI Chairman Bruton Smith announced his desire to move one of his company’s existing Sprint Cup race dates to Kentucky Speedway, but had to wait for the speedway’s antitrust suit to play out in the U.S. Court of Appeals.
The court announced Dec. 11 it had denied that appeal, opening the door for Smith to move a date. Which SMI track will yield a race date to Kentucky? Atlanta Motor Speedway seems to be the most likely source, but that decision won’t be announced until later next year.
So fans in Georgia... how do you feel about losing your race ? Atlanta sports fans are generally considered among the worst in professional sports, but the Atlanta track produces some great racing. Better I suspect then we'll get out of another cookie cutter mile and a half.
