Rumblings out of a news conference with Brian France, NASCAR’s chairman and CEO, last weekend in Daytona hinted one of Dover International Speedway’s Sprint Cup dates could be in trouble. Denis McGlynn, CEO and president of the Delaware speedway, said yesterday the track will have its two dates next year [usually the first Sunday after Memorial day & last Sunday in September]. ‘I called [NASCAR president] Mike Helton [Tuesday],’ McGlynn said, ‘and he told me we don’t have anything to worry about.’ Attendance has been down at Dover’s last two spring races, prompting McGlynn to stress that Dover’s races are ‘still successful, just not as successful’ as previously when the 135,000 seats were usually filled. ‘Some tracks have taken down significant numbers of grandstand seats,’ McGlynn said. ‘Their crowds are the same as a year ago, but it looks better. We widened our seats, reducing capacity to 112,000. [But] our track looks the same.’(Philadelphia Daily News)(7-11-2014)
