Dover Motorsports saw its admissions revenue drop 17.3 percent in 2010 primarily from its tripleheader weekend at Dover International Speedway and its two Nashville race weekends, the company reported Thursday. The company announced Wednesday that it would not ask for NASCAR events at Gateway International Raceway for 2011. The track, which had two Nationwide events and one Truck event on its 2010 schedule, was devalued Wednesday from $10 million to $2.036 million, which is primarily the value of the land. Dover has asked for its Nationwide race at Nashville in June and its Truck race at Nashville in August to be combined into a doubleheader during the Cup off-weekend in July, where Gateway had a doubleheader scheduled in 2009. That would give Nashville two Truck-Nationwide doubleheaders – one on Easter weekend and one in July – on Cup off-weekends. NASCAR has not yet announced whether it would approve the schedule request.(SceneDaily.com)(7-30-2010)
