Kentucky

[mike honcho]

Upgrades planned for Kentucky Speedway: Yes, it's official. Kentucky Speedway will host its first Cup race on Saturday night, July 9, 2011. But Bruton Smith's just getting started. Before he could get the huge banner outside the front gate unrolled he was lobbying the governor to build an airport large enough to land 747s on these sprawling hills. "All you camera guys, are you looking at me?" Smith said as he began his rundown of planned improvements. "Look at me!" Smith then promised to spend between $90 million and $100 million expanding seating capacity from 66,000 to 116,000, building new restrooms, adding 200 more acres of campground space and putting in more elevators. When you see what he has accomplished already and what he promises, you almost believe one day he'll convince NASCAR to move the season finale from Homestead-Miami Speedway to Las Vegas Motor Speedway.(ESPN.com)(8-11-2010)


Why put in that many seats when you can't sell them and an airport to land 747's????????? I think it's a little much.

 

[Spike]

Kentucky Speedway is 30 miles from Cincinnati International Airport(which is in northern Kentucky itself) and 50 miles from Louisville International Airport.

Why does the area need another airport to handle large aircraft? Those 2 airports can handle any aircraft in the world(including the Airbus A380).

 

[dpkimmel2001]

I imagine that they will be sold out next year. After that, who knows?