Appeals court rules against Kentucky Speedway

[dpkimmel2001]

Maybe they need to build a casino?

A federal appeals court has rejected claims by a Kentucky track that NASCAR violates federal antitrust laws by keeping it off the premier racing circuit. The decision issued Friday by a three-judge panel from the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ends, for now, Kentucky Speedway's legal efforts at forcing NASCAR to bring a Sprint Cup race to the northern Kentucky track. The panel said Kentucky Speedway failed to prove NASCAR and International Speedway Corp., worked together to with other tracks to keep the Kentucky track from getting a Sprint Cup race. Kentucky Speedway sued NASCAR in 2005 after being rejected multiple times for a top level race. The race track, about halfway between Louisville and Cincinnati, has drawn huge crowds to some of its other races.

 

[Benevolent One]

I can't see how they could expect the courts to force the cartel into giving them a race.

 

[MRM]

Now that this seems to be over, will it finally get a Cup date? NASCAR has said all along that as long as the suit was there, they wouldn't be getting a Cup date.

 

[dpkimmel2001]

Yes, it could be the Track of Dreams - Build a casino and NASCAR will come.