Looking Back from the pages of the Carrollton News Democrat and Trimble County Banner.

Located in Sparta, Kentucky, the Kentucky Speedway opened in 2000 with great promise, with a 1.5-mile asphalt track and a seating capacity of 66,000. The $153 million facility was a product of ...

Kentucky Speedway owners had their sights set on hosting NASCAR’s prestigious Cup Series soon after it opened in 2000. A co-owner of Kentucky Speedway, Jerry Carroll, was also managing partner ...

Stuck in idle: Kentucky Speedway falls short of once high hopes 4 years after last NASCAR race. Published 8:00 am Thursday, June 20, ... Speedway Motorsports, which acquired Kentucky Speedway from a ...

By Tim Sullivan Kentucky Lantern By the end of the year, the owners of Kentucky Speedway will have paid Gallatin County more than $900,000 for tickets never sold to races never run. NASCAR abandoned ...

Speedway Motorsports, which acquired Kentucky Speedway from a group headed by Jerry Carroll in 2008, declined an interview request from the Lantern, as did the track’s former general manager ...

Kentucky Speedway will mark the fourth anniversary of its last NASCAR race on July 12. (Kentucky Lantern photo by Tim Sullivan) ... Speedway Motorsports, which acquired Kentucky Speedway from a group ...

Relive the excitement of the 1978 Winston World Championship with record-breaking runs, unexpected victories, and drag racing legends.

At least Ford is finding a use for Kentucky Speedway after NASCAR said goodbye to the Speedway Motorsports-owned track. Kentucky hosted top-tier Cup Series races from 2011-20 but struggled with ...

Chase Elliott used his platform Sunday night as the Ally 400 NASCAR Cup Series champion to express his support for the the sport's return to Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway.. Elliott, the 2020 ...

Kentucky Speedway is storing thousands of semi-truck trailers and pickup trucks. The Sparta race track is renting its property for longterm parking after NASCAR removed the speedway from the 2021 ...

Mark Simendinger, the longtime general manager of Kentucky Speedway is out after leading operations at the track for more than 20 years. ... That’s when Jerry Carroll, ...