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After a brief time as a collegiate athlete, Doug Bland moved to Southern California, where he lived in Newport Beach. He began his business career in event marketing with Ritz Entertainment, producers of music festivals and sporting events. [1] In 1996 Bland became marketing manager of the Roger Penske-owned California Speedway in Fontana ...
Ferko, et al. v. National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, Inc., et al., commonly known as the Ferko lawsuit, was an American lawsuit between plaintiff Francis Ferko, a resident of Plano, Texas, and a minor shareholder of the then-publicly traded Speedway Motorsports, Inc. (SMI), and defendants NASCAR and International Speedway Corporation (ISC), which are both owned by the France family.
The Wasps continued to compete in the Premier League until the early part of the 2008 season when they withdrew because their promoter Tim Stone died only to be saved by the Mallett family and rebranded for the 2009 season (including a junior side called the Newport Hornets) with Steve Mallett at the helm and his son Nick Mallett joining him as ...
New Smyrna Speedway: New Smyrna Beach, Florida: Gavan Boschele: March 23 Five Flags Speedway: Pensacola, Florida: April 5 Dominion Raceway [8] Thornburg, Virginia: May 22 Hickory Motor Speedway: Hickory, North Carolina: May 24 Newport Speedway Newport, Tennessee: June 13 Madison International Speedway: Oregon, Wisconsin: June 15 Slinger ...
The promotor was Texas Motor Speedway's first general manager when the track was built in 1996. He hosted events there for 25 years until his retirement in 2021.
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For more than 20 years, the Irwindale Speedway has hosted car races — as well as spectacular and fiery car stunts — in the city east of Los Angeles. Located near the 605 and 210 freeways, the ...
Smith also created a new division of short-track racing, named Legends Car, after feeling that the Charlotte Motor Speedway needed to cut costs for local, entry-level racing. [49] Smith later incorporated Speedway Motorsports, Inc. (SMI) in 1994, [50] offering 4.5 million shares during the first business quarter in 1995 at a price of $18 per ...