It's a natural place for a speedway,'' said Texas Motor Speedway General Manager Eddie Gossage. But having said that, I think it has little or no chance of landing a Winston Cup race. If you get a map of the U.S. and put pushpins in cities with Winston Cup races, you'll see the East has far too many dates. He was stung when Kansas City and Chicago got their races. Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth is the second-largest sporting facility in the world behind Indianapolis Motor Speedway, he said.
Television ratings are among the best in the sport.
On April 2 about 223,000 fans roughly the population of Lexington turned out for the DirecTV 500. But the world-class facility's only Winston Cup race was acquired when its parent company bought half of North Wilkesboro Speedway, and with it one of that track's two races. The track is still clamoring for another. They can't really come out and say anything positive about your track. I don't ever anticipate hearing anything positive from Mike Helton.