ISC mum on which track could lose Cup date
By Bob Pockrass - Associate Editor
Thursday, August 14, 2008
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International Speedway Corp. isn't saying yet which of its tracks would lose a Sprint Cup date if the parent company is successful in obtaining the rights to a Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on its Kansas Speedway property and moves a race there.
ISC and its partner, The Cordish Co., are among four groups pursuing the casino project. As part of its incentive package, ISC President Lesa France Kennedy, who is part of the NASCAR ownership family, said it would look to realign one of ISC’s current Sprint Cup dates to give Kansas a second Cup race each year. Kennedy announced the proposal at an appearance before the Kansas Racing & Gaming Commission.
The commission will make its decision on the location of the casino by the end of September, ISC spokesman Wes Harris said.
Kansas would get the second Cup date starting in 2010 or 2011, Harris said.
“We don’t have any formal proposals before NASCAR or anything like that right now, but that is what we presented today,” Harris said Wednesday. “We have done this [realignment] in the past. We haven’t speculated on [what track] at all.”
Harris would not speculate on whether the Cup race would come from ISC tracks that have two dates (Daytona, Richmond, California, Talladega, Martinsville, Michigan or Phoenix) or whether it would close a track that has only one Cup date (Darlington, Homestead-Miami, Watkins Glen, or Chicagoland)
“Clearly we’re in the business of running race events, and we like the markets that we’re in, but that’s all I can really say,” Harris said. “We believe in the project, and Kansas has been fantastically successful for us. It’s been a great speedway for us and a real important speedway in our portfolio.”
Kansas, which opened in 2001, is a 1.5-mile oval. Harris said adding a second race to Kansas would be a huge advance for the sport.
“Even though it would be another 1.5-mile oval track, but each of those tracks have their own character, and as they get older, they even take on more character,” Harris said. “It would put on a good show, and it would be great for the sport.”
Harris said it had not been decided if the second Cup race would be sold as part of a season-ticket package. Kansas Speedway currently sells all of its seats as part of a season-ticket package.
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7 responses to "ISC mum on which track could lose Cup date"
Carol Hohman said:
Aug 14, 2008 at 9:25 AMnascar builing too many tracks when it don't need to nascar on it's way down cause of fuel down the raod and people are not thrilled with how it is anyhow Kansas should be blowing in the wind DON"T TRED ON OTHER TRACKS TO LOOSE THERE RACE AND THERE FANS. France family should think of the fans at the tracks they want to close down or move before builing other useless race tracks!!! How would you like it if the fans would pull the rug under the France family? France family better wake up and soon. Fans are not happy at all!!!!!!
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» Confirm Abuse ReportFrank Alford said:
Aug 14, 2008 at 10:50 AMthey should take a race from Cali if any of them or Bristol. Bristol has gotten down right boring since they redid the track.
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Aug 14, 2008 at 11:20 AMbring back the Southern 500 on Labor Day at Darlington
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» Confirm Abuse Reportmike stalling said:
Aug 14, 2008 at 12:01 PMget rid of both races at calif. speedway. they are boring, way too long, but it does give me something else to do on sunday besides watch. hey maybe that is not a bad thing. but calif speedway, just like calif. in general sucks.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportdavid kuzma said:
Aug 14, 2008 at 7:29 PMNASCAR should try rotating second dates to tracks with one race,take a race from tracks with two dates,rotate races around,similar too stick and ball sports.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportsteve songer said:
Aug 14, 2008 at 7:38 PMSo, am I being censored? I had a post over four hours ago that is not on here. Would someone kindly oblige me with an explanation?
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» Confirm Abuse Reportsteve songer said:
Aug 15, 2008 at 9:59 AMI'm fairly sure you won't post this as it will expose the 'cherry picking' nature of your post approval process; but I just want to tell the others who read this that my post re: this article HAS in fact been censored TWICE from appearing in this forum. I don't use profanity speaking, so naturally I used no profanity in my post, so I must conclude that these responses are prohibited from containing pointed comments about the subject at hand as well as anything the least bit critical of the CEO of NASCAR. So, I must determine that the 1st Amendment doesn't apply to this forum and the moderators of it don't want us passionate fans with too dissenting of an opinion to be heard.
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