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Bruton Smith, owner of Lowe's Motor Speedway and other motorsports racetracks, has long had his sights on Meadowlands Racetrack for possible conversion into a short track venue for NASCAR events in the New York City area.
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The North Wilkesboro Speedway was closed following the 1996 NASCAR season after two new owners, Bob Bahre and Bruton Smith, moved North Wilkesboro's NASCAR races to their tracks in Texas and New Hampshire.
The speedway opened in 1959 by owner Bruton Smith, who is a native of Oakboro, NC.
In 2010, Bruton Smith ( owner of Speedway Motorsports, Inc .), offered $ 20, 000, 000 to any driver, IndyCar or NASCAR, who can win both the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 on the same day starting in 2011-a feat that has never been done before.
The speedway was built in 1959 by Bruton Smith and is considered the home track for NASCAR with many race teams located in the Charlotte area.
The track is owned and operated by Speedway Motorsports ( SMI ) with Marcus G. Smith ( son of Bruton Smith ) as track president.
Charlotte Motor Speedway was designed and built by Bruton Smith and partner and driver Curtis Turner in 1959.
Afterward, he learned that a group led by Bruton Smith had a similar idea to build a track near Pineville.
In 1976 Bruton Smith reassumed full control of the speedway with the resignation of former track president Richard Howard.
Bruton Smith, owner of Charlotte Motor Speedway, has indicated that he's working on setting up a $ 20 million bonus for winning both the Indy 500 and the Coca-Cola 600, starting in 2011.
Bruton Smith invested $ 50 million in the speedway, and planned to move a Sprint Cup Series event to the track by 2009.
The relationship ended when Bruton Smith took over its ownership.
In 2005, track owner Bruton Smith made a public offer of $ 20 million apiece to the University of Tennessee and Virginia Tech to schedule a non-conference college football game between the powerhouse Volunteers and Hokies ' programs.
( Ferko filed the suit on his own ; Bruton Smith did not want any part of the suit.
Heal retired after the 2003 season, and C. J. Bruton was recruited to take his place, Jason Smith was signed after returning to the NBL after playing in Europe but unfortunately was injured 13 games into the season and was replaced by import Chris Carrawell.
The Kings managed without their starting backcourt until Bruton came back and they signed import forward Mark Sanford, moving Jason Smith down to shooting guard.
Bruton Smith began building SMI in the 1950s when he worked as a race promoter and eventually built Charlotte Motor Speedway in 1959.
Smith Family Baseball, owned by Illinois businessman Dale Smith and his son Brad ( the team's President ) bought the team from Dale Earnhardt, Inc. and motorsports magnate Bruton Smith in December 2004.
During 1998, the Las Vegas Motor Speedway was sold by Richie Clyne and Ralph Englestad to Speedway Motorsports, Inc., which was owned by Bruton Smith, for $ 215 million dollars in December.
After the 1996 season Bahre and Bruton Smith bought North Wilkesboro Speedway and moved one of its Winston Cup dates to New Hampshire.
The other 50 % was still owned by Bruton Smith, the CEO of Speedway Motorsports.
Two racetracks formerly on the Winston Cup ( now Sprint Cup Series ) schedule were closed to make room for Texas Motor Speedway's two race dates, with the North Wilkesboro Speedway being bought by TMS owner Bruton Smith and New Hampshire International Speedway owner Bob Bahre.
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Citing North Wilkesboro Speedway's age and lack of modern amenities, former New Hampshire Motor Speedway owner Bob Bahre and Speedway Motorsports, Inc. CEO Bruton Smith, who already owned several NASCAR circuits, purchased the track in 1996.
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Its counterclockwise terminus is at the Alabama state line in Floyd County, and its clockwise terminus occurs in the middle of an overpass over U. S. Route 19 / U. S. Route 41 ( US 19 / US 41 ) and SR 3 in Hampton in Henry County at the Atlanta Motor Speedway, where it is known as Bruton Smith Parkway.
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On Jan. 22, 1996, Larry Carrier sold the speedway to Bruton Smith's Speedway Motorsports, Inc. ( SMI ), at a purchase price of $ 26 million.
Bruton Smith's Speedway Motorsports, Inc. ( which also oversees operations of tracks in Bristol, Tennessee, Hampton, Georgia, Loudon, New Hampshire, and Concord, North Carolina, all of which have two race dates a year ) thought that the first race at Texas was popular enough to warrant another date.
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An Episcopalian priest, among other assignments, he served several periods as rector of Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg.
As a consequence of the slow growth of employment ( and other things ), poverty was alleviated only modestly ," ( Bruton 917 ).
Former Taoiseach and Fine Gael leader John Bruton said FitzGerald would ; stand out as a man who changed Ireland and that he had changed attitudes to in the Republic to Northern Ireland and to Europe and that he saw that Ireland could do best in Europe if it contributed creatively to goals and ambitions of other members.
Bruton also established a working relationship with Gerry Adams of Sinn Féin, however both were mutually distrustful of each other.
Payne has worked and recorded with other musicians including J. J. Cale, Doobie Brothers, Emmylou Harris, Bryan Adams, Pink Floyd, Bob Seger, Toto, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, Helen Watson, Stevie Nicks, Shocking Edison, and Stephen Bruton.
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He is married to Finola Bruton and has four children.
Noonan has been a minister in every Fine Gael-led government since 1982, serving in the cabinets of Garret FitzGerald, John Bruton and Enda Kenny.
Richard Bruton ( born 15 March 1953 ) is an Irish Fine Gael politician and has been a Teachta Dála ( TD ) for the Dublin North – Central constituency since 1982.
At least one woman remains, Mrs. Susanna Dickinson ( Laura Clifton ), whose husband, Lt. Almeron Dickinson ( Stephen Bruton ), has decided to stay.
Years later, the mark of two bases-loaded triples in a game has been matched only by Bill Bruton ( NL, ) and Duane Kuiper ( AL, ).
The campus houses the Bruton Smith Athletic Center, which has 3 full-sized basketball courts, a weight room, and a 4-lane indoor track.
The company's London flagship store on Bruton Street has been completely renovated and expanded.
Bruton has a museum dedicated to the display of items from Bruton's past from the Jurassic geology right up to the present day.
The River Brue has a long history of flooding in Bruton.
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John Bruton said he had received £ 1, 000 from Dunne in 1982 towards his election campaign.
This was a severe blow as the victor, Dukes, was, like Bruton, one of the younger generation of politicians ( albeit a couple of years older than Bruton ) but had been a TD for 12 years fewer.
Whereas most leaders had come from or identified with the independence movement Sinn Féin ( in its 1917 – 22 phase ), Bruton identified more with the more moderate Irish Parliamentary Party ( IPP ) tradition that Sinn Féin had eclipsed at the 1918 general election.
But as evidence of Bruton's complexity, he also kept a picture of former Fianna Fáil Taoiseach Seán Lemass, which had been hung there by Reynolds, and which Bruton kept because he viewed Lemass as the best and most reforming Taoiseach in the history of the state.
Bruton's Rainbow Coalition was generally perceived to be a good government, with Bruton, who was meant to have had a bad relationship with Tánaiste Dick Spring, being seen as its star performer.
Additionally, many years later Frank Dunlop made allegations before the planning tribunal that he had informed Bruton about demands for a £ 250, 000 bribe made to him by a Fine Gael Dublin councillor, Tom Hand, in order to rezone the Quarryvale development.
But, in his own evidence to the tribunal in 2007, Dunlop himself said that he had not mentioned any figure of 250, 000 to Bruton in his 1993 conversation with him.
However, Noonan failed to live up to expectations and the party suffered an even greater collapse than had been expected under Bruton.
Bruton was praised by Ahern, who said Bruton had played " a pivotal role in developing Ireland ’ s relations with the European Union.
Kenny explained that he and Bruton had had a series of discussions in which Bruton said he had lost confidence in him.
He had the city surveyed and a plan laid out by Theodorick Bland taking into consideration the fine brick College Building and Bruton Parish Church.
He had made these remarks after Bruton had highlighted to the Dáil that despite McDowell's claims of increases in Garda personnel in 2005, only 6 extra Gardaí had been added to the Dublin police force in that year.
John Bruton, the leader of Fine Gael, had problems of his own.
It also found that one of Lowry's interventions, which cut the selection process to the advantage of Esat, was ' disgraceful ' and ' insidious ', and that he had misled the Government, his party leader John Bruton and his own civil servants to influence the selection process in Esat's favour.
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