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The race is likely to be moved from one of SMI's existing tracks, with the most likely tracks being Atlanta or New Hampshire, both of which currently have two races on the Sprint Cup calendar.  The kentucky Speedway was built with the idea of landing a Sprint Cup race but the original owners were never able to achieve their goal.  In fact, that ownership group filed a federal antitrust suit against NASCAR for its refusal to consider granting the Speedway a race.  SMI bought the track in December, 2008, when it became increasingly apparent that NASCAR was not going to deal with the existing ownership group and that the litigation was not going in its favor.  SMI, which owns seven tracks hosting one or more Sprint Cup races (not including Kentucky) clearly had a much better relationship with the France family than did Kentucky Speedway's original ownership group, but even so, SMI was forced to wait until the antitrust case was resolved.

Now we get to find out just how much money there really is.  News comes that Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso, the other member of the sports top three drivers has had his thumbs insured for nearly 9 million euros by team sponsor Santander.  Sure, thumbs are valuable in driving cars, but 9 million euros?  Turns out, upraised thumbs are a bit of trademark for Alonso and that coupled with their importance in driving prompted Santander to buy the insurance, especially since the team is reportedly paying him in excess of $25 million.  That amount certainly makes those thumbs insurable any day.