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The story about Bruton Smith offering to purchase the track to move the race back to Labor Day is true. LINK

Bruton willing to buy Darlington - to move race back to Labor Day weekend: [Speedway Motorsports CEO Bruton] Smith said he would be willing to buy a track with an existing Nextel Cup date, for "$200 million to $250 million, something like that," to bring that date to Las Vegas [Motor Speedway]. And he said he was "trying every week" to make just such a purchase. "What we need to do is buy a speedway ... and I'm hoping one day somebody will give me a phone call or knock on the door, and within 15 minutes the deal will be done," Smith said. "They know I'm here and willing and can write a check." Smith also said he would be interested in buying Darlington Raceway, and picked a $100 million price tag - but not to move the date here, rather he said to return the Southern 500 to its historic Labor Day weekend, to "get it back where it belongs." Smith said his Speedway Motorsports operation is "six to seven years behind this sport. And we are going to work like hell to catch up.(Winston Salem Journal)(3-11-2006)

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See Talk:Carolina Dodge Dealers' 400 Doctorindy↔Talk 21:18, 25 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi This page needs to be renamed to Southern 500 as it no longer has a sponsor. Mrmariomaster (talk) 10:52, 14 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]