Daytona International Speedway Takes Home Prestigious
Sports Facility of the Year Award
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.
(May 19, 2016) – Daytona International Speedway’s (DIS) new $400 million motorsports stadium was named Sports Facility of the Year last night at
SportsBusiness Journal’s
2016 Sports Business Awards in New York City.
The
Sports Business Awards recognize excellence and outstanding achievement
in the business of sports. DIS topped a competitive field consisting of
Avaya Stadium (San
Jose Earthquakes), Bill Snyder Family Stadium (Kansas State University
Wildcats), Kyle Field (Texas A&M Aggies) and Petco Park (San Diego
Padres).
“We’re
honored to receive this prestigious award for our new motorsports
stadium,” said International Speedway Corporation Chief Executive
Officer Lesa France Kennedy.
“Our employees, fans and partners deserve the credit for helping us
transform the vision into reality.”
The motorsports stadium officially debuted during the 2016
Rolex 24 At Daytona and 2016
DAYTONA
500. DIS has a full calendar of events scheduled for the remainder of
the year, including the Country 500 Music Festival (May 27-29), Coke
Zero 400 Powered By Coca-Cola
(July 2) and the Ferrari World Finals (December 1-4).
About NASCAR
The
National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, Inc. (NASCAR) is the
sanctioning body for the No. 1 form of motorsports
in the United States. NASCAR consists of three national series (the
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series™, NASCAR XFINITY Series™, and NASCAR Camping
World Truck Series™), four regional series, one local grassroots series
and three international series. The International
Motor Sports Association™ (IMSA®) governs the IMSA WeatherTech
SportsCar Championship™, the premier U.S. sports car series. Based in
Daytona Beach, Fla., with offices in eight cities across North America,
NASCAR sanctions more than 1,200 races in more than
30 U.S. states, Canada, Mexico and Europe. For more information visit http://www.NASCAR.com and http://www.IMSA.com,
and follow NASCAR on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and
Snapchat (’NASCAR’).
About International Speedway Corporation
International
Speedway Corporation is a leading promoter of motorsports activities,
currently promoting more than 100 racing events annually as well as
numerous other motorsports-related
activities. The Company owns and/or operates 13 of the nation's major
motorsports entertainment facilities, including Daytona International
Speedway® in Florida (home of the DAYTONA 500®); Talladega
Superspeedway® in Alabama; Michigan International Speedway®
located outside Detroit; Richmond International Raceway® in Virginia;
Auto Club Speedway of Southern CaliforniaSM near Los Angeles;
Kansas Speedway® in Kansas City, Kansas; Phoenix International Raceway®
in Arizona; Chicagoland Speedway® and Route
66 RacewaySM near Chicago, Illinois; Homestead-Miami SpeedwaySM
in Florida; Martinsville Speedway® in Virginia; Darlington Raceway® in
South Carolina; and Watkins Glen International® in New York.
The Company also owns and operates Motor Racing NetworkSM, the nation's largest independent sports radio network, and Americrown Service CorporationSM,
a
subsidiary that provides catering services, and food and beverage
concessions. In addition, the Company has a 50 percent interest in the
Hollywood Casino at Kansas Speedway. For more information, visit the
Company’s website at
www.InternationalSpeedwayCorporation.com.
About Daytona International Speedway
Daytona
International Speedway is the home of "The Great American Race" - the
DAYTONA 500. Though the season-opening NASCAR Sprint Cup event garners
most of the attention - as
well as the largest audience in motorsports - the approximately
500-acre motorsports complex boasts the most diverse schedule of racing
on the globe, thus earning it the title of "World Center of Racing." In
addition to eight major weekends of racing activity,
the Speedway will host the inaugural Country 500 – The Great American
Music Fest at DAYTONA over Memorial Day Weekend in 2016. Rarely a week
goes by that the Speedway grounds are not used for events that include
civic and social gatherings, car shows, photo
shoots, production vehicle testing and police motorcycle training.
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