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Even in the best of times it’s hard to sympathize with million/billionaires, what with their private jets, jacuzzi’s the size of Olympic swimming pools and “entourages,” you can’t forget entourages.

Speedway Motorsports Inc. officials say they have made an official request with NASCAR to add Kentucky to the 2010 Sprint Cup Series schedule.

Several major pieces of legislation in Kentucky’s General Assembly including a tax-incentive plan designed to lure a NASCAR Sprint Cup race to the Kentucky Speedway are in jeopardy.

A bill aimed at helping Kentucky Speedway host a potentially lucrative NASCAR Sprint Cup race got a legislative green light Tuesday.

Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. tomorrow with Speedway Motorsports Inc. chairman Bruton Smith and others. An advisory distributed this morning indicated only that the news conference would address, “the future of NASCAR in Kentucky.”

Race track dates and where and when they will be awarded is shaping up as a battle of the titans. On one side of the battlefield is Bruton Smith’s SMI.

Matt Kenseth tried to keep up.
But in the end, Midwest horsepower trumped NASCAR starpower as Tim Schendel of Sparta, Wis capped a sweat-soaked Sunday with a dominant win in the Rasmussen Group Twin 75s ASA Super Late Model Series race at Iowa Speedway.

“It’s top three,” Schendel said of the triumph that came two weeks after [...]

Except for the rain, the owner of New Hampshire Motor Speedway generally liked what he saw during the NASCAR track’s first Sprint Cup weekend since he took over.
Bruton Smith, whose Speedway Motorsports Inc., bought the track last fall for $340 million, is still working on plans for its future.
But, while SMI also recently bought Kentucky [...]

A source at New Hampshire Motor Speedway told the Herald yesterday that Moss’ NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series team, Randy Moss Motorsports, will make its debut on July 19 at Kentucky Speedway. Moss’ truck will be No. 81, the jersey number he wears for the Patriots.

Well, that didn’t take long.
No sooner than a NASCAR led Flying Squad (A Navy term, sorry.) arrive on scene at Kentucky Speedway two NNS officials have been yanked from the jobs and placed on administrative leave.
It’s not known the identities of the two but Joe Balash and Mike Dolan the two highest in pay grade [...]

Just what NASCAR needs - as if there’s not enough politics involved with the sport - Gov. Steve Beshear says he’s still hoping the state lands a Sprint Cup race at Kentucky Speedway in time for next year, despite NASCAR’s indications to the contrary.
Beshear returned this evening (Sunday night) from a meeting in North Carolina [...]

NASCAR’s decision Friday to not have a Sprint Cup race at Kentucky Speedway in 2009, despite a change in ownership to Bruton Smith, has left the track’s founder livid.
“This is what bullies do and it’s been going on too long,” Carroll said. “They’ve showed their hand again. If they want to break us and want [...]

If reports are true Bruton Smith will announce within the next 10 minutes he has purchased the Kentucky Motor Speedway.
Which raises the snarky question - I wonder if Eight is Enough?
The place was built for approximately $150 million, I’ll guess Smith is laying out somewhere in the neighborhood of $225 million for the property.
More later [...]

Roush-Fenway Racing rookie Ricky Stenhouse, Jr., and his #99 Ford used a solid restart on Lap 107 of 112 to steal the race lead from Scott Speed and the No. 2 Red Bull Toyota and drive away to his first ARCA RE/MAX Series win in front of 10,273 “Drive Smart! Buckle-Up Kentucky 150” fans at [...]

Here we go again, now that the the Kentucky Speedway date for it’s NCTS event is about 6 weeks away up pops stories about the speedways lawsuit. Dismissed lawsuit I should say.
Cynical? I sure am, there’s nothing like sucking a bit of air out of the May stories that are all centered on Humpy and [...]