Kentucky Speedway appeal deadline extended
Quote selected text Published February 22nd, 2008 in NASCAR News
Kentucky Speedway has received a one-month extension to file an appeal in its antitrust lawsuit against NASCAR and International Speedway Corp.
Originally, Kentucky Speedway was supposed to have filed its appeal by March 5, but the new due date is April 7.
No date for a hearing has been set, but it likely would be heard in July at the earliest in U.S. Appeals Court in Cincinnati.
Kentucky Speedway alleged that NASCAR, a sanctioning body owned by the France family, and ISC, a track-operating company that is publicly traded and whose majority of voting stock is owned by the France family, conspire to keep independent tracks such as Kentucky Speedway from getting Sprint Cup dates.
NASCAR and ISC denied those claims, and in January, a U.S. District Court judge concluded that there was not enough evidence for the case to go to trial. The appeal will center on whether there is enough evidence for a trial to be held.
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Just because you build it does not mean they have to come.
Kentucky had no guarantee of a Cup date when they built the track, so when they didn’t get one they shouldn’t have sued… but then again Suing to get stuff you have no pre-determined right to seems to have become the American Way anymore.
Once more you missed the point Fishy !!
Kentucky Speedway is suing NASCAR, ie the France Family because they believe that it is unfairly controlling who gets race dates because nascar is run by the Frances and they own ISC a majority owner of the race tracks that NASCAR races on.
For the unenlightened thats what is known as “conflict of intrest” in a big time way…
For NASCAR to become a truly fair and unbiased sanctioning body they must divest themselves of track ownership to ever be viewed as unbiased in picking of race track locations, venues and dates.
Kentucky Speedway has always maintained that all they ever wanted was a FAIR shot at a race date at some point. Not the pre-determined right of the France family to pick and choose those dates based on if it was one of it’s own tracks or a trade deal to benefit them in the future.
Robbert, Its called SARCASM!!!!!!!!!!
Personally I feel that ISC being made public was the worst thing that family ever did, because if they would’ve kept it private and even turned it into a division of NASCAR then none of this would happen (well chances are people who build tracks would still sue, but if ISC was privately held by NASCAR then those track owners would not have a leg to stand on in their suits)
No matter how you cut this block of cheese it will still stink…
Read my lips. Sanctioning body’s should never ever hold ownership in any portion of the products they are making the rules for. The reason should be obvious to all (well maybe not all) that at the least there is a appearance of impropriety and at the worst there is an outright attempt on the part of the owners of said governing body to manipulate the outcome of race dates in their tracks favor and that would give cause to file a lawsuit on the behalf of the other track owners.
Reminds me of the stupid MLB owners that made Bud Selig commissioner. That was a conflict of interest. Then he stepped back (wink, wink) and his daughter Wendy took over the Brewers. I think they sold the team a few years ago. Bud is the Brian France of baseball. He was on duty when the steroids became rampant. The France family wields too much power and doesn’t know how to use it properly. That’s a fact, Jack!
Ditto.