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Originally Posted by Dylan

It is probably safe to say that Rupert Murdoch would never give them (without getting into it) the time of day.



There is a lot of history behind Texas Motor Speedway. It involves two of the most powerful billionaires' that rule NASCAR stock car racing - The France family (ISC) and Bruton Smith (SMI).

Someone mentioned Rockingham in his or her post not too long ago.

The lawsuit between France and Smith was over a promise to grant another date at Texas Motor Speedway - The federal lawsuit, which involves Rockingham, New Hampshire and Texas, had the potential of blowing up the foundations of France's empire.

Smith could not sue NASCAR, but one of the biggest shareholder’s of SMI stock could, and filed a lawsuit against NASCAR.

If you know anything about the bad relationship between France and Smith that spans over fifty years – Then, you know Smith was behind the (collusion) case.

In early spring 2004 the outlines of a possible out of court settlement in the suit against NASCAR for an additional cup race at TMS had begun to emerge. Under the terms of the reported accord, ISC, the France-family-controlled operator of 12 major racetracks, would sell its Talladega, Alabama, and Darlington, South Carolina, speedways to SMI. If this sale were to go through, it was widely reported, SMI would take two of the cup race dates from the newly acquired ISC tracks and transfer them to existing SMI tracks—namely, TMS and Las Vegas Speedway. This would give SMI the second cup race for TMS that it had long pursued.

Wait- Smith was gonna buy Talladega (Talladega!) just to give one of its race dates to ****ing Vegas?