NASCAR announced Wednesday it will retain broadcast rights to all Winston Cup and Grand National events, with the intention of ending the era of tracks negotiating their own rights fees. It is unclear whether Grand National events would be packaged separately or part of the same deal. According to the announcement, NASCAR will not change its current television rights fee distribution formula (65 percent to tracks, 25 percent to drivers and 10 percent to NASCAR). No significant changes to NASCAR programming prior to the 2002 season( That’s Racin’ ) — Also a few story links about the TV $$: NASCAR plan may boost TV money from icFlorida and NASCAR to bypass tracks for future TV pacts from SpeedNet
