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‡ ‡ ‡ 1 mAr DAVID PERRY/STAFF Kentucky Speedway in Sparta will hold its first race June 16 with the NASCAR Slim-Jim All-Pro Series. I AUTO RACING Surface improvement Kentucky Speedway repaves its 1½-mile track By Mark Story HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER When you've spent $150 lion on a new place, what's tra $552,000 to make it The latter is the cost to face the entire race track Kentucky Speedway, the auto racing palace in County. The new facility opens June 16 with the 150, a race on NASCAR's Jim All-Pro Series. The highlight of the weekend comes June 17 with the Kroger 225, an event on NASCAR's Craftsman Truck Series. More than 42,000 tickets have already been sold to the truck race. The laying of new asphalt was required after a tire test revealed movement in the asphalt of the original track. "We did not have to do that; you could have raced on it," said track founder and part-owner Jerry Carroll yesterday while on a swing through Lexington to promote the new track. "But when you look at PR, at what we want to do, we could not afford any setback, none. We had to have everything right. And we've got it right." Laying the new asphalt was to conclude yesterday, Carroll said, and after a five day curing period the process should be complete. "We're going to be ready," Carroll said. "Absolutely ready. We're ready to go." The opening of the 1½-mile milan experfect? resurat the new Gallatin officially Kentucky Slim- opening Opening weekend # June 16: Qualifying for Craftsman Trucks Kroger 225, 6:15 p.m.; All Pro Series Kentucky 150, 9 p.m. # June 17: Grandstands open at 2 p.m.; Joe Walsh concert, 4 p.m.; Craftsman Trucks Kroger 225, 7:30 p.m. superspeedway will be the first toward the culmination of a for Carroll, the former Park owner who spearthe drive to build a firstauto facility. In addition to the truck race, the highlight of Kentucky Speedway's first year will be an openwheel race on the Indy Racing League circuit in August. The ultimate goal, of course, is to attract a race on the most popular circuit of American racing, NASCAR's Winston Cup series. Carroll and his investor group built the Kentucky Speedway without any guarantee that Dale Earnhardt, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Jeff Gordon and compatriots Speedway will ever compete at the track. "You look at Jacksonville, they built a football stadium without any guarantee they'd ever get the NFL," Carroll said. "A lot of things are built on a gamble. "We're confident if we show NASCAR that we will do things in a first class way, we'll eventu- PaddleSports ally get where we want to go." The track is located off Interstate 71 and designed to be easily accessible to Cincinnati, Dayton, Lexington and Louisville. Carroll says tickets are moving well in Cincinnati, Columbus and Dayton. "In Lexington, we do real well. We are not doing as well as we had hoped for in Louisville." Carroll says fans who patronize the new facility will be wowed by the bowl effect of the grandstand seating. "A high school football stadium on steroids," he says of the 65,989-seat facility. "What NASCAR and a lot of people coming here say, we've probably got the best visual track in the United States of America," he says. The track's opening weekend will feature a concert by Joe Walsh, formerly of the rock band the Eagles. Also scheduled to attend the truck race are University of Kentucky basketball coach Tubby Smith and football coach Hal Mumme, Carroll says. Plus, a cheetah on loan from the Cincinnati Zoo will try to break the record as the fastest land-based animal. Comparing his experiences in two sports, Carroll said it is much easier to attract fans and media attention in auto racing than in horse racing. "Car racing is much easier to break into corporately," he said. "It is much easier to get people to come. It is much easier to get families to come. It is more of a fanfriendly kind of sport." golf discountcoupon "We're going to be ready. Absolutely ready. We're ready to go." Jerry Carroll founder and part owner of Kentucky
Article from 31 May 2000Lexington Herald-Leader(Lexington, KY)
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