"I'm hoping (the relationship with NASCAR) might change moving forward. We've had our good moments, and I hope that what we've been doing in the past - all these good number of years - that we've added greatly to the sport and helped to build the sport.
At the time, Mr. [Bill] France and I were having a meeting in New York an impromptu meeting at his suite at the Waldorf. He approached me during the meeting and told me 'I want you to help me build NASCAR.' I thought that was kinda comical because I thought I'd been doing a good job of it all these years.
We talked about Texas and he knew what I was getting ready to do - build the big speedway down there. I invested a quarter of a billion dollars there. You don't do that without a knowledge that you are going to have the event. And that's what I knew. I had the knowledge that I would have the event and continually was promised 'Well, you're not on the schedule this year, but you'll be on it next year.' The next year would come and 'Well, not this year but next year.' Well, it went down the road that way."
