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Two SMI presidents deny tracks may lose race dates
By Jeff Gluck - Associate Editor
Friday, May 23, 2008
CONCORD, N.C. – The presidents of two Speedway Motorsports Inc. tracks firmly dismissed the notion that their facilities could lose Sprint Cup dates in order to provide Kentucky Speedway with one.
New Hampshire Motor Speedway and Atlanta Motor Speedway have been mentioned as tracks that could lose a race, but NHMS President Jerry Gappens and AMS President Ed Clark shot down the idea that SMI Chairman Bruton Smith would ever do that.
In fact, both presidents said they are planning to finalize sanctioning agreements with NASCAR on Friday morning for two races each in 2009.
"Bruton has not given me any, any indication at all that he's looking to change anything," Gappens said. "...I don't think this will have any impact. I think there's more to the puzzle that he's got to finish completing to do some of the things he's thinking."
Clark vehemently denied that his track, which has struggled with attendance recently, would have a date moved elsewhere.
"I'm tired of people bringing that up, because I get so sick of answering it, I'm about to scream," he said. "You can go ask Bruton, you can ask me – there is no chance. It is not going to happen."
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Anonymous said:
May 23, 2008 at 6:18 PMu got to move Pocono or michigan races 2 most boring races in Nascar
Pat Johnson said:
May 24, 2008 at 8:09 AMWhile some people may think that the Pocono races are boring both of the races are sellouts. I go to the Pocono 500 in June. From what I read Atlanta never sells out a race so if they want to move a race take one of theirs. It seems like the southern tracks are always accomodated for while the northern ones are left out. There are fans of Nascar who do live up north and would hate to see races up starting to disappear.