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The Dale Jr. Download

299 – Marcus Smith: First Sport with Fans Back

The Dale Jr. Download

Dirty Mo Media & SiriusXM

Sports

4.89K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Dale Earnhardt Jr. is joined by Speedway Motorsports CEO Marcus Smith, who opens up about NASCAR’s return to action from a track owner’s perspective. As Charlotte Motor Speedway hosts NASCAR’s second week back to racing, Smith details the screening process the track conducts before events, why he envisions fans returning sooner rather than later and what that will look like. The two long-time friends, along with co-host Mike Davis, reflect on Sunday’s World 600 and Earnhardt Jr. shares his thoughts on the underwhelming race and asks Smith what can be done to improve NASCAR Cup Series competition at Charlotte. Smith offers candid thoughts on what the track and sport can do to put on a more entertaining event, how his company approaches repaving track surfaces, and the difficulty of keeping up with race team’s innovation. Plus, the two reminisce about the cold day spent at North Wilkesboro Speedway last December, discuss what Smith really thinks of Dale Jr.’s ideas, and learn more about NASCAR returning to Nashville. As racing resumes, this conversation sheds light on how tracks are preparing to host events again and what goes into putting on the best races possible.

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, it's Dale Jr. back again for another episode of the Dale Jr. download.

0:12.4

We got Marcus Smith coming on the show.

0:14.2

He's promoting a race over there at Charlotte, Mercy Freeway all week long.

0:17.9

Pretty much racing every single night.

0:19.1

He's going to tell us how he does it.

0:20.2

We're going to talk a lot more about the industry and how we go forward to advance back

0:23.6

to the race track.

0:24.6

Let's get Marcus in here and get this show started.

0:28.2

All right everybody just like we say, man, Marcus Smith, he's going to come through the show.

0:32.2

Here he is.

0:33.2

Good to see you Marcus.

0:34.2

Hey buddy, good to see you too.

0:35.7

It's been a while.

0:36.7

Yeah, man, where are you at right now?

0:38.6

I'm at my house.

0:40.8

What house?

0:41.8

You got a lot of houses.

0:42.8

Just one on the backyard and I'm just hanging out here before I head out of the track

0:51.6

a little bit later for the truck race.

0:54.3

Yep.

0:55.9

This is an incredibly unique busy week for Charlotte, Mercy Freeway.

1:01.8

You've got basically racing every single night.

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