I should know better by now when I read the words ‘Kentucky Speedway’ and ‘Nascar’ in the same sentence, it’s a trick. They are just toying with me again. Playing with my emotions. The end result is always the same with talk about a Cup event being dangled just within reach and then it gets yanked away, PSYCH!  It’s as if Nascar studied and learned from the Ferko lawsuit whereas Kentucky Speedway prepared using Ferko Cliffs-Notes.

Kentucky Speedway getting the time of day from Nascar is not possible much less a Cup race. Especially with an appeal in federal court pending against Nascar.  Less we forget Smith and SMI shareholders were the ones who “started it” by suing Nascar and ISC for the second race at Texas under the same antitrust theme. Given SMI’s legal history, does anybody else find this a tab bit brazen? 

There is no amount of additional seats or track upgrades that will make this a faint memory to Nascar. 

How do you wake up one day and make this situation sound like a good idea: I’m gonna buy a track in the midst of an appeal suing the sanctioning body I’ve already sued in an eerily similar fashion. 

THEN! Using that logic should be the nail in the coffin to any voices of reason I have left around me and run off the most popular and well-liked track presidents in history.  But I’ll keep Jerry Carroll on the payroll at the Kentucky facility. 

WAIT! It gets better. Before I talk to Nascar about any of this and before I actually have ownership of the property itself, I will announce to the masses that I can guarantee a Cup race at Kentucky Speedway for the 2009 season.

No WONDER Humpy “resigned"/"retired”!!!! I would have run as fast as my legs would carry me and as far away from that mess as I could get. 

I do not have a business degree. I deal in microscopic pocket change compared to these players here. At least I have the common sense God gave a door knob: If a product cost $152 million to make and it is on sale for $78 million…there is something seriously wrong with it. Walk away.

The ISC was a necessity when Nascar started out in turning Bill France's vision into a reality.  The "build it and they will come" concept was a gamble and it worked.  Kentucky's attempt at the same concept some 50 years later in a completely different era and a market Nascar has repeatedly stated they did not want to be in was a gamble doomed from the start. 

I don't know what Nascar has against this market.  There are plenty of us in this area who have no interest in going to a day race at Indy or Pocono in the middle of summer with tracks that are too friggin big to see anything but a blur of cars going by every 3 minutes only to watch the action on the jumbo TVs.  I can watch TV at home for free, see all the action on the track, not get a sunburn, not have to stand in line for anything, and no traffic jams going from my living room to the kitchen when it's over.    

Do I want a race close to home?  Yes.  Am I glad that Kentucky Speedway lost their case, and even with SMI backing them are still out of contention for getting one?  Yes.  The Ferko suit could have set a precedence for tracks that want an event but don’t get one – Oh well, just sue them for it.  Jerry Carroll needs to understand that Nascar is not being a bully about it.  They are actually protecting us the fans from people like him so we can have racing.  I'd rather have no race in Kentucky than have Nascar go under because they are being sued by every wanna-be who builds a track and feels they are entitled.  The "they're such big meanies" defense Carroll came back with in not getting a 2009 Cup race was embarrassing.  Brian France did not respond with "I know you are, but what am I" remark because he is a businessman and grown up. 

As much money that SMI has been spent on legal fees over the past decade, I finally understand why a Margarita at LMS costs 12 bucks. I still don’t like that my Margarita costs 12 bucks but now I am cursing the right people under my breath.