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Or there abouts.

Speculation still continues swirling around a possible sale of NHIS to “other parties.” (Gee, wonder who that might be?) This despite Sunday’s event being the 23^rd consecutive sellout and is less than two thousand short of a sell out for the September Chase event.

That said, and once again, the current owner Bob Bahre has issued a denial of the facilities sale. However this one contains and out.

Bob Bahre, the 79-year-old chairman of NHIS, said his 1.058-mile oval is not up for sale, despite speculation to the contrary.

“Now my son [Gary, 43, NHIS's president], since he’s been sick a few years back, he’d never want to run it alone, I’ll tell you that now,” said Bahre, who remains one of NASCAR’s independent owners, along with Dr. Joseph Mattioli, chairman and CEO of Pocono Raceway.

“I’m going to be 80 next year, but if I were to die tomorrow, he’d probably sell it before the funeral.”

Asked if Gary didn’t like racing, the elder Bahre said, “No, no, he likes it. He loves it. He loves this track. We’ve been at it together forever, since he was a little kid of 7 years old. He loves racing, it’s not a question of that. It would just bother him to be alone doing it.”

Ok, who’s going to step up to become a partner when the inevitable happens?

The first one that answers ISC wins the conspiracy theory booby prize of the day.

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