Smith Says Kentucky Cup Race Can Happen If Suit Dropped
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Smith Still Hopeful For '09 Cup
Race At Kentucky Speedway |
SMI Chair & CEO Bruton Smith yesterday "repeated his belief" that a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Kentucky Speedway can "still happen by 2009 if the track's current ownership stops fighting NASCAR" and ISC in appeals court, according to Kevin Kelly of the CINCINNATI ENQUIRER. Smith: "If they could decide, maybe, 'Let's drop that lawsuit and put it behind us,' then I'm still optimistic on '09." Smith said that he "spoke with NASCAR officials as recently as Monday about bringing a Sprint Cup race to Kentucky Speedway next year," and he noted that the appeal is "holding up progress." Smith said of the lawsuit, "[NASCAR] said the reason why, and I have not read this, something that I was named as a co-conspirator or something. That gives them a major problem. It doesn't give me a problem because I'm just purchasing assets." Kentucky Speedway Chair Jerry Carroll could not be reached for comment, but last week said that the "appeal would continue." A Kentucky Speedway lawyer yesterday said that "nothing had changed in regards to the appeal." Meanwhile, with NASCAR saying that it has "no intentions of being able to bring a Sprint Cup race to Kentucky in 2009 because of the timing," Smith said that "at this point he would have to move a date from another track, but did not specify which track." Smith: "If I got the green light right now that NASCAR would not oppose, then we would, certainly within 24 or 48 hours, come up with a plan to relocate a date" (CINCINNATI ENQUIRER, 6/4).
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