Sunday afternoon in New Hampshaa!

[Lt.Del]

I think Kentucky is owned by Speedway Motorsports, Inc.  I was wrong is saying ISC owned Bristol and Charlotte as well.  The old days of having individuals own the different tracks and racking up millions are way over. When the former owner of RIR, Paul Sawyer, died, his sons each got something like $30 million---an incredible amount.
You'd think, with all the experience of Bruton and his boys at Speedway Motorsports, Inc, they'd know how to keep a smooth flow of traffic into the track.  Just sayin' 


Speedway Motorsports, Inc (Bruton Smith, founder 1994) owns:
http://www.speedwaymotorsports.com/

Infineon
Kentucky
Bristol
Charlotte
Atlanta
Vegas
Texas
New Hampshire
among others


International Speedway Corp (The France family) owns:
http://www.internationalspeedwaycorporation.com/?homepage=true

Auto Club Speedway-California
Chicagoland Speedway
Darlington Raceway
Daytona International Speedway
Homestead-Miami Speedway
Kansas Speedway
Martinsville Speedway
Michigan International Speedway
Phoenix International Raceway
Richmond International Raceway
Talladega Superspeedway
Watkins Glen International

[autorepr]

I agree, bruton smithe(no caps for him) should have ran things WAY better. It was like it was the first race he ever hosted! In addition to the traffic, the line for the bathrooms was 40 people at each door all day/night long. He added 40,000 seats and didn't add bathrooms. He says he spent $100 million in upgrades... I've been going to KY Speedway since it opened and I didn't see any noticable upgrades. (Where'd the $100 mill actually go if that was what was spent?) The gates to get in were a joke then to leave 80,000 people had to squeeze thru 4 openings at each gate to get out. Oh I could go on all day.

Sorry, I really am done complaining about this. Promise. It's just that it was so patheticaly run and he is blaming it on the roads to get there.......

[bobcooter]

I know some folks who went to Texas for the first race and came back saying pretty much the same thing. The traffic in and out was terrible. Actually there was not even enough parking for everyone and some people had to park on the side on the interstate. Not cool for how much you pay for tickets. They finally got everything straightened out. I think that if the Big Boys go back to Ky next year it will be a different place. Bruton made a ton of money on this event, now he can spend some more mon more improvments.
 Do you realize how much stroke he has to have to get the France family to even give him a date at Ky?

[bigchevy74]

Hey im heading back to the states soon from my deployment in afghan.....im tired of this place its my second time comming here...what unit is he in if you know? i just want to get home to work on my 74

[Lt.Del]

He's at FOB Ramrod, i guess that's a big place for our troops in Afghanistan--plugging it in youtube and many vids come up. 
I don't know his company, just now he just finished Army boot camp from Ft Leonard Wood just two months ago or so and spent a couple of months at Ft Lewis, Washington.  He said it took him three tries to leave Kandahar because the plane C-17 kept having mechanical problems once in mid air...i told him don't tell his mom that. 
I'll have more info once he settles in his new hot home.

[beastie_3]

I don't know his company, just now he just finished Army boot camp from Ft Leonard Wood just two months ago or so and spent a couple of months at Ft Lewis, Washington.

Such a wonderful place.

He said it took him three tries to leave Kandahar because the plane C-17 kept having mechanical problems once in mid air..

Sounds about right. I once pointed to a leaking hydraulic line in a helo to the crew and they told me it was fine. He said to tell him when it stopped leaking because that means there isnt any more fluid.