Before I begin, let me just say how much I enjoy Bruton Smith. He’s a non-stop source of unforgettable quotes and over the top bluster – oh and we can’t forget the Liz Taylor sunglasses. I seldom get more excited than when there’s going to be a Bruton press conference. “I have built more speedways [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Bruton Smith’
Bristol, Bruton and The Changes Coming Our Way
April 25th, 2012 
Journo 
Posted in Racing Observations, The Business of NASCAR 
Tags: bristol, Bruton Smith, NASCAR, progressive banking, racing groove 
9 Comments »Loudon Getting ‘Concorded’ By Bruton Smith
June 21st, 2010 Journo Concord (verb) – when a race track/auto dealership magnate threatens a municipality with the removal of a race event, or entire racetrack, in order to get what he wants – refers to what happened to the city of Concord, N.C. Last week Bruton Smith took his fight with the police chief of Loudon, N.H. public. [...]
Bruton Smith…Makes Sense?
March 11th, 2010 Journo Say what you want about Bruton Smith, you can’t accuse the guy of not speaking his mind. And you can bet when there are eager reporters around him the gospel according to Bruton is about to be preached. Though it might have gotten lost in the noise about Carl Edwards and Brad Keselowski, Smith took [...]
It’s Always Good To Come Home
October 18th, 2009 T.C. In other sports, home games happen just as often as away games. But racing is different. We spend almost the entire season at away games. The sport as a whole only gets two home weekends a year; the 600 weekend in May and the October night race at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. Both offer a welcome respite from the usual grind of [...]
Posted in NASCAR at the Track, Over The Wall, Racing Observations Tags: Bruton Smith, charlotte, coke 600, Concord, Home, Humpy Wheeler, Lowes Motor Speedway, May, Memorial Day, October 2 Comments »What Is Going On At SMI?
April 10th, 2009 Journo The headline should perhaps read “What is going on at Sonic Financial?” From falsified SEC filings to executives lying about their credentials, the empire of O. Bruton Smith is on shaky ground. Chalk it up to the recession or mismanagement, there is a lot of troubling things going on at the company. It seems every [...]
NASCAR Media, Where Are You? No Marcus Smith Stories?
March 19th, 2009 T.C. So I don’t know how many of you have seen this, but apparently Marcus Smith (you know, son of Bruton Smith and President of Lowes Motor Speedway) might not have actually graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This story appeared yesterday from Bloomberg and cites a University official. The story was a bit [...]
Kentucky, Really?
February 20th, 2009 Journo Bruton Smith amped up his Kentucky Speedway rhetoric this week, with the help of Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear, as they announced plans for a $75 million expansion (with help from the state) to aid them in their quest for a Sprint Cup Series date. And why not? Kentucky is a great facility. The mile and a half, 68,000 [...]
He’s Runnin’ His Mouth Again: Update
November 4th, 2008 Journo Update: The newest merger rumor is between Chip Ganassi Racing and Dale Earnhardt Inc. and guess who the biggest source behind this rumor is? None other than Felix Sabates. Lee Spencer at Fox Sports is maintaining she has several sources, while ESPN is solely quoting Sabates. Whether this rumor is true, I am really not prepared to [...]
Posted in NASCAR News, Racing Observations Tags: bob margolis, Bruton Smith, Chip Ganassi Racing, ESPN, Felix Sabates, NASCAR, SMI, Terry Blount, yahoo sports No Comments »He’s Runnin’ His Mouth Again
November 3rd, 2008 Journo There are a lot of people in this sport who like to run their mouth and all too often it is a motorsports reporter at the other end. Despite many of these reporters knowing the reputation of those they are speaking with, they report the rumors/speculation anyway. And then we are all forced to deal [...]
Posted in Racing Observations Tags: bob margolis, Bruton Smith, Chip Ganassi Racing, ESPN, Felix Sabates, NASCAR, SMI, Terry Blount, yahoo sports 3 Comments »The Tarnished Gem
October 9th, 2008 Journo In 1959 Curtis Turner and O. Bruton Smith set out to seperately construct a large speedway in the Charlotte area. After a lengthy battle, the two agreed to join together to build what is today Lowe’s Motor Speedway. Turner was forced out of the company in 1961 and Smith in 1962. For the next 9 years Turner worked [...]
