Hearing that the date for the Built Ford Tough 225 presented by the Greater Cincinnati Ford Dealers race at Kentucky Speedway has been changed from July 12 to July 19, 2008 at 7:15pm local time.(1-24-2008)
UPDATE: The Craftsman Truck Series race scheduled for July 12 at Kentucky Speedway has been moved to July 19 to avoid a conflict with the Sprint Cup race at Chicagoland Speedway, NASCAR spokesman Ramsey Poston confirmed. Last season, the Kentucky race was run on Saturday night and the Chicagoland race was Sunday. But Chicagoland will have lights this year and run on Saturday night. Both races were scheduled for July 12 this year. The new race date is an off week for Cup teams, while the Nationwide Series drivers will be competing at Gateway Int’l Raceway. The weekend was also an open week for ARCA, which runs Friday night as a support race for the trucks at Kentucky. “It was a quirk, and we’re grateful to Kentucky for working with us,” Poston said. “It was a good cooperative effort to find a solution that worked for everybody.”(SceneDaily.com)(1-25-2008)
UPDATE 2: Kentucky Speedway has adjusted its 2008 schedule and will now play host to its ARCA RE/MAX Series “Kentucky 150” and NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series “Built Ford Tough 225 Presented by the Greater Cincinnati Ford Dealers” events July 18 and 19. The events were originally scheduled July 11 and 12. Dates were changed to best accommodate NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series broadcast agreements with SPEED Channel. All single-event and season tickets previously sold for both July races will be honored on the new dates. The ARCA RE/MAX Series “Kentucky 150” will take the green flag at 8:00 p.m., July 18 and the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series “Built Ford Tough 225 Presented by the Greater Cincinnati Ford Dealers” will begin at 7:00 p.m., the following evening.(Kentucky Speedway PR)(1-29-2008)
