Track trade

Track owner Bruton Smith, in Las Vegas for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races, said he wants to swap races at his Atlanta Motor Speedway with the Labor Day races at the newly named Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, according to The Sporting News.
That would give Auto Club Speedway a race in the Chase for the Sprint Cup in October and move the Labor Day NASCAR Cup race, once known as the Southern 500 when it was a Darlington Raceway in South Carolina, back to the South.
"That's exactly what we're proposing," Smith told The Sporting News. "It's the thing to do. I like the reception we got (from NASCAR), because that would help California tremendously.
"I hope that we'll have an answer in the near future. If it happens, it will be next year."
Smith also told The Sporting News that he is interested in purchasing the National Hot Rod Association. A deal involving HD Partners Acquisition Corp. purchasing the NHRA fell through last month.