Speedway Motorsports Inc. buyouts Kentucky Speedway

Yesterday Speedway Motorsports Inc. bought out Kentucky Speedway. No word on how much the track was bought out for, but don't get your hopes up if your expecting to see a Sprint Cup race at the track next year. NASCAR offcials said yesterday with the track being in such close proximity to other tracks such as Bristol and Indianapolis giving Kentucky a Cup date will be a hard thing to achieve. The only opition for Kentuck Speedway to get a Cup date is that Speedway Motorsports Inc. gives up a race at one of thier other venues and this will probably mean bad news for Atlanta Motor Speedway which of the SMI tracks has had the worst attendence records in the past few years. I sure this doesn't happen.

NASCAR may put brakes on Bruton (Speedtv.com)

Humpy Wheeler to retire after Coca-Cola 600

Humpy Wheeler long time president of Lowe's Motor Speedway is retiring after Sunday's Coca-Cola 600. Wheeler who has been president of Lowe's Motor Speedway since 1980 is stepping down, but Humpy said he isn�t totally exiting the racing world just yet.

"While it is with sadness that I announce my retirement from Speedway Motorsports and Lowe's Motor Speedway, it is time for me to move on to other things," Wheeler said. "I have devoted my entire life to racing and I don't intend on leaving it, just serving it in different ways. I have made arrangements with a well-known author to co-write a unique book interweaving my various experiences in the sport with the wonderful human drama and rich characters that abound in it. I will resume the 'Humpy Show' on SPEED Channel and look forward to being chairman of the Charlotte Regional Partnership in 2009. I also look forward to other endeavors, including lecturing and working with the motorsports management program at Belmont Abbey College."

No word yet on who will succeed Wheeler after this weekend.

H.A. "Humpy" Wheeler is Retiring from Speedway Motorsports and Lowe's Motor Speedway (LowesMotorSpeedway.com)