I had a yankee here in Raleigh (imagine that ;)) compare what's happening to NASCAR with what happened to their favorite sport, hockey. They're growing too fast too quick. Yes there's interest in it, but the interest isn't in seeing a race on the same d#mn track shape in fourteen different cities. Bruton and the boys are chasing out the independent tracks. They want to take the last race here at the Rock and move it to suprise, suprise, Texas. Wonder who owns that? Hmmmmm....The only tracks in this area that are owned by Speedway Motorsports are Bristol and Charlotte. Expect Richmond and Martinsville to go next
Take the tracks out of the strange markets like Michigan and move them back to the tracks here in NC like N. Wilkesboro
bruton isn't forcing the france family to move the rockingham date...the france family, according to the lawsuit, had promised a race date to texas, but when they didn't deliver, bruton, who had bought n. wilkesboro, moved a date from there to texas...to bruton, france still owed him a race date, but still didn't get one...i think the france family figured bruton might win, and has decided to bite the bullet and give the rock's date to texas to stave off losing the lawsuit...
i think bruton could buy up more tracks and create a new race series with races at the tracks he owns...nascar has shown they care more about money than their longtime fans and a new series could bring about some great competition and rivalry...