NASCAR Has a New Kentucky Home
Written by Daniel Turner, Tuesday July 05 2011
Early in the century NASCAR envisioned opening state of the art tracks in the Pacific Northwest and close to NYC, but the economy fizzled and cities like Seattle and New York decided that investing in NASCAR wasn’t worth the money. So, for the first time in over 10 years NASCAR is finally putting the rubber to the road in a new venue, but it isn’t in the Emerald City or the Big Apple. Instead, it is in northern Kentucky; spitting distance from Cincinnati. The track design isn’t quite what NASCAR had in mind either. Instead of a track utilizing the beauty and nature of its surroundings it is 1.5 mile oval.
Speedway Motorsports Inc. bought the facility after the 11 year old track tried to sue NASCAR to bring a race to their oval. SMI’s Burton Smith managed to do what Kentucky Speedway couldn’t do and secure a Cup race without threatening litigation. Furthermore, they have over 107K tickets sold for Saturday’s race, which may lessen the hurt over NASCAR being unable to break new ground in new territory
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