photo credit: Dei3Nascar8[/caption]Speedway Motorsports, Inc. (NYSE:TRK) officials announced today that Kentucky Speedway will host a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race on Saturday night, July 9, 2011. What the Kentucky speedway wins, will be lost for the Atlanta Motor Speedway. There will also be a NASCAR Nationwide Series race on Friday night, July 8, 2011.
“Our goal as a company since we purchased Kentucky Speedway was to bring a Sprint Cup Series race to the passionate NASCAR fans in Kentucky and throughout the Midwest region,” said Bruton Smith, chairman and chief executive officer of Speedway Motorsports, Inc. “This realignment will add an exciting Saturday night race to our portfolio during the prime summer travel season, while allowing Atlanta Motor Speedway to build its premiere Labor Day Weekend race into one of the biggest spectacles on the circuit.”
Kentucky Speedway is a 1.5-mile (2.4 km) speedway located in north-central Kentucky, near the community of Sparta, Kentucky; approximately halfway between Louisville, Kentucky and Cincinnati, Ohio, and is additionally 70 miles (113 km) from another fairly sizable market, Lexington, Kentucky. The track was designed to host a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race and has hosted NASCAR Nationwide Series and Camping World Truck Series races, as well as IRL IndyCar Series and Indy Lights races.
The next major race on the Kentucky Speedway is on September 4: IZOD IndyCar Series, Kentucky Indy 300 at 8:00 pm.
Speedway Motorsports owns and operates the following racetracks: Atlanta Motor Speedway, Bristol Motor Speedway, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Infineon Raceway, Kentucky Speedway, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, New Hampshire Motor Speedway and Texas Motor Speedway.
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