Stuff for a Thursday: Castroneves and NASCAR and Bruton Buys Another Track

Is it Friday yet?


In response to some notes around the media world, Helio Castroneves was being conjectured about as far as his pondering NASCAR.

For the moment, he's focused on trying to win his THIRD Indy 500 this weekend, but he does have the connections, being that he drives for Penske and his contract is due up at the end of this year......   but  Castroneves said in a recent article "I'm thinking about how I can win for a third time and somebody wants to write about NASCAR?" he said. "Come on."

Hmm, sounds like a denial to me, and as we've all come to learn, a denial is just a contractual obligation to look committed and then all bets are off...  but heck, I think I actually believe him!
Source:  IndyStar.com

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It must be nice to have a BIG savings account.  At least for Bruton Smith.

It was announced today that Speedway Motorsports Inc. has agreed to purchase the 1.5-mile Kentucky Speedway in Sparta, Ky.   That's big.  Big as in like Microsoft buying out the competition big.

Kentucky has been in the middle of a legal spat trying to get a Cup date, trying everything from cajoling to lawsuits and slanderous suggestions, but to no avail.  Now that Bruton is on the scene, things in my opinion, are going to change big time, but don't ask me which way.  It could be the Microsoft way - buy the little competition and keep them squashed and absorbed.

OR,

Some track somewhere is going to be losing another Cup date.  (Whose done that in the past?  Oh...)

Now the speculations begin anew with this track venture of his.

To date, Kentucky has hosted the NASCAR Nationwide Series, Craftsman Truck, ARCA RE/MAX Series and IRL IndyCar Series races.