http://www.sportspageatlanta.com/48/bruton-smith-flexing-his-muscles/ Atlanta Sports For The Atlanta Fans Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:20:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.sportspageatlanta.com/48/bruton-smith-flexing-his-muscles/#comment-17 Chris DeSpain Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:27:08 +0000 http://www.sportspageatlanta.com/48/bruton-smith-flexing-his-muscles/#comment-17 The latest I read regarding Bruton Smith was he was pushing the idea to swap the fall race dates of California Speedway and Atlanta Motorspeedway. His reason for proposing the swap was that he felt California Speedway was having attendance problems due to the hot weather around Labor Day weekend. I am surprised that he would want to do this as Atlanta is host to one of the Chase races and he would lose that to his ISC rivals with the swap. Currently, ISC has 5 tracks to Bruton's 4 in hosting the Chase races. Yes, it would be fun to have the Labor Day race weekend in Atlanta but this doesn't sound like a power move on Bruton's part. The latest I read regarding Bruton Smith was he was pushing the idea to swap the fall race dates of California Speedway and Atlanta Motorspeedway. His reason for proposing the swap was that he felt California Speedway was having attendance problems due to the hot weather around Labor Day weekend. I am surprised that he would want to do this as Atlanta is host to one of the Chase races and he would lose that to his ISC rivals with the swap. Currently, ISC has 5 tracks to Bruton’s 4 in hosting the Chase races. Yes, it would be fun to have the Labor Day race weekend in Atlanta but this doesn’t sound like a power move on Bruton’s part.

]]> http://www.sportspageatlanta.com/48/bruton-smith-flexing-his-muscles/#comment-16 Bruton Smith Not Backing Down : Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:57:38 +0000 http://www.sportspageatlanta.com/48/bruton-smith-flexing-his-muscles/#comment-16 [...] I just finished writing an article on SportsPage Atlanta. Here is a small excerpt of that article. The past year has been a very busy year for Bruton Smith and Speedway Motorsports Inc (SMI). Proving that Smith is probably the only person who can actually stand up to the France family and not bow down to kiss the ring of Sir Brian….click here to read the entire article.  [...] […] I just finished writing an article on SportsPage Atlanta. Here is a small excerpt of that article. The past year has been a very busy year for Bruton Smith and Speedway Motorsports Inc (SMI). Proving that Smith is probably the only person who can actually stand up to the France family and not bow down to kiss the ring of Sir Brian….click here to read the entire article.  […]

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