Tell a Friend - Motorsports business owners say they’ll stay, even if track relocates

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Consider it a consolation prize. If Bruton Smith were to close Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Concord and build a track elsewhere in the Charlotte region, most motorsports businesses near the speedway or in Mooresville likely wouldn’t follow him. Based on Smith’s geographic criteria, a new speedway could be as far away from Concord and Mooresville as southern York County in South Carolina. That means some race teams and other businesses now only a mile or two from the region’s major NASCAR venue could end up more than 30 miles away. Yet that distance, while less convenient, probably isn’t enough to make most companies move, especially teams that have spent millions of dollars on facilities in Cabarrus, Iredell and northern Mecklenburg counties, business owners and others said. http://www.autoracingdaily.com/17540/