NASCAR prepares to fight Kentucky Speedway lawsuit
Quote selected text Published October 24th, 2007 in NASCAR News
The Kentucky Speedway’s antitrust lawsuit is scheduled to go to trial in March, but lawyers representing NASCAR and International Speedway Corp. soon will try to convince a federal judge that a trial isn’t necessary. U.S. District Judge William Bertelsman will hear arguments Nov. 19 in Covington on several motions filed in the case - including a sealed motion for summary judgment filed earlier this year by NASCAR and ISC.
The speedway filed suit in July 2005 alleging NASCAR and ISC violated antitrust laws by restricting which tracks host Nextel cup races and trying to “monopolize the market for hosting premium stock car racing events.”
In an amended complaint filed in April, the speedway said it wanted NASCAR to develop “objective factors” for the awarding of Nextel Cup races; for the France family to give up control of either ISC (a public company that operates tracks and whose majority of voting stock is owned by the Frances) or NASCAR (a private company owned by the Frances); for ISC to sell at least eight of the 12 tracks it owns that host Nextel Cup events; and more than $200 million in damages.
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Just give them a race and save a lot of $$$. make a lot of fans happy.
Win Win situation
Yeah, honestly it bothers me that so many of the tracks that the Busch (soon to be Nationwide) Series and Craftsman Trucks Series race on are better racetracks than most of the Cup events. I think that the Las Vegas and California tracks should both be razed, because the racing is god-awful on both of them, even with LVMS’s recent resurfacing. The replacements should be: 1. Give the date back to Darlington that was taken away, 2. Let Kentucky have it’s date, 3. Give one date to Gateway (that’d have a great turnout if they added more stands), and lastly 4. Give Nashville the final open date (holy crap that’d be a spectacular race!!!). The Nextel Cup Series needs less of one thing, cookie-cutter tracks that make for wasted ticket money and alot of dissapointed fans, seeing as the same driver could win every doggone year. If Nextel did this, it’d gain something that it certainly needs, variety and more great racing, perhaps they might be able to break that “plateau” that they’ve had in the T.V. ratings. Just my thoughts…no one has to agree, though it’d be great if at least one of these things happened (I’d love to see the Labor Day Darlington race come back, that might be the most likely thing to happen since Bruton Smith might be resurfacing the track and adding more stands).