I just received an interesting, albeit very short, release from Kentucky Speedway.  According to the release, Kentucky Speedway chairman, Jerry Carroll commented on the speedway hosting a Sprint Cup event in 2009.  “Our group is confident that comments made by Bruton Smith, and, our agreement, will continue to come to fruition.”

I can only guess that given SMI’s reputation of buying tracks for dates, Carroll has been getting some questions about the logic behind the deal.

Now, this poses a problem.  There are currently 36 dates on the calendar and, numerous times, drivers have commented that they would like to have more time off, not less.  This all but eliminates the possibility of adding an additional date to the calendar.  So, this means that one of the current dates would need to be moved.

It makes sense that only the SMI tracks are candidates for losing a date.  Looking at the list, I can’t see one that would be a good candidate to drop a date.  Now, the last time the Bruton Smith needed a Cup date, he bought Rockingham and he and Bob Bahre each took a date from the track effectively killing it.  That is, until Andy Hillenburg bought it last year and brought ARCA racing back to the track.  In case you’re keeping score at home, Texas Motor Speedway and New Hampshire were the tracks that benefited from the Rocks death.  New Hampshire was purchased last year by SMI.

I can’t help but wonder how Bruton Smith will pull this one off or if he even will.  As I mentioned yesterday, I’m not quite sure if this is good or bad for Kentucky Speedway.  Only time will tell.