It was reported today from Michael Vega from the Boston Globe that the sale of New Hampshire International Speedway has been completed. Bruton Smith, CEO and Chairman of Speedway Motorsports Inc. reportedly has purchased NHIS from Bob Bahre. SMI already owns six racetracks: Fort Worth, Texas, Atanta, Las Vegas, Infineon (Sonoma, Calif.), Lowe's (Concord, N.C.) and Bristol, Tenn.

Smith has wanted a second race for quite some time at Las Vegas. So it may mean, in the end, one less race at NHIS for New Englanders sometime in the future.

An announcement will be made regarding the purchase of NHIS today at 12:30 EDT from Texas Motor Speedway.

I'll be back with an update after the teleconference.

Texas Motor Speedway Data
Race #: 34 of 36 (11-4-07) Number of laps: 500
Track Size: 1.5 miles Length of Event: 263 miles
• Banking/corners: 24 degrees
• Banking/straights: 5 degrees
• Frontstretch: 2,250 feet
• Backstretch: 1,330 feet

My picks:

This week I will be going with Clint Bowyer or Jeff Burton for the win. Bowyer's never won here but according to the dumb headline on nascar.com, he may need my support.

I'll also go with Burton, he has won here twice.

FYI, Jeff Gordon, Jimmy Johnson and Clint Bowyer are winless in 24 combined
starts at Texas Motor Speedway.

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